Maremat & Me'mari-e Iran

Human always in interaction with their social environment, have consider some degree of privacy with different purposes, for themselves, the people around them and carry out their activities. Creating privacy depends on two elements; subjective meanings that ruling the creation of privacy, and the second sentence are person available facilities. Privacy is not seen, heard, smelled and availability of things that find objectivity with respect to spatial and temporal distances in the living environment. The main issue of this research is to inquire about the nature of privacy in residential areas, and its purpose is to understand the reasons for the formation of privacy in residential areas. The significance and necessity of this research can be expressed in a definition of the dwelling in such a way that the dwelling is the center of everyday human activities, which these activities are separated from each other by privacies. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the nature of these privacies, which defines the external credibility of the research in order to redefine this feature in the design of residential environments. Ahead research has been based on the observation and description of manmade environment, with reasons argues to the privacy type’s characteristics, its origins and how it deals with the physical environment, which is adorned with objective evidence of Qashqai tribe living environment. The findings of this study show that the subjective meanings ruling on the creation of privacy in case study residential environments are affected by things such as "women's situation" and "family social status", and facilities that are used in the environment to ensure privacy, are spatial and temporal characteristics in man-made environments. Spatial characteristics with aspects such as "spatial distance" and "forward / backward" afford privacy in the physical environment, and temporal characteristics get the aspects such as "temporal distance" and " temporal sequence of settings", that have rooted in respect smelling, hearing and visual distances in different cultures. The results of this research to helps understand how human use of the environment affordances for interaction with their social environment.