Abstract
Despite the significant literature about the meaning of home and the scholars’ research concerning the home environment, the concept of home didn’t filter into the rehabilitation process. The conservation theory and the rehabilitation methodology are still concentrating on the material aspects of the built environment and ignoring the immaterial aspects and meanings. In view of that the dwellings are not only artifacts but they are a livable example of the social structure and behavioral patterns. Understanding the dwellers relationship with their dwellings will be helpful in establishing a connection between the rehabilitation of the historical domestic architecture and the concept of home. This requires reconsidering the theoretical frame work of the rehabilitation process so as to be able to recognize the change in the historical house’s spatial structure and order and to link them to the social structure and pattern of use.
Highlights
The housing sustainability implies “a better quality of life not just but for future generations as well as, it should combine protection of the environment, sensible use of natural resources, economic growth and social progress”(1)
Edgar Morin ascertained the importance of the inhabitant-house relationship, as he explained that “If, between the houses, the streets and the groups of its inhabitants, there were only to be an accidental relationship and one of short duration, men could destroy their home, their neighborhood, and their city and rebuild another, in the same place, following a different design; but should the stones let themselves be transported, it is not easy to modify the relations that are established between the stones and men”(2)(3)
Going through different approaches that tackle the inhabitanthouse relationship and articulating the required means to implement the meanings of home in the rehabilitation of the historical houses
Summary
Despite the significant literature about the meaning of home and the scholars’ research concerning the home environment, the concept of home didn’t filter into the rehabilitation process. Understanding the dwellers relationship with their dwellings will be helpful in establishing a connection between the rehabilitation of the historical domestic architecture and the concept of home. This requires reconsidering the theoretical frame work of the rehabilitation process so as to be able to recognize the change in the historical house’s spatial structure and order and to link them to the social structure and pattern of use. Tomando en cuenta que las viviendas no son sólo objetos, sino ejemplos de estructuras sociales, y patrones de conducta, el entendimiento de la relación entre habitantes y sus viviendas será de utilidad para establecer una conexión entre la rehabilitación de la arquitectura doméstica histórica y el concepto del hogar. Palabras clave: Hogar, rehabilitación, teoría de la conservación, la inmaterialidad, la sostenibilidad
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