Sacred Concepts of Traditional Residential Architecture and Its Revival in Iranian Modern Housing

House is the first impression of world for human. Man tends to settlement instead of distribution through building a house. Iranian house is God’s place based on inner content. Respect for sacred concepts in traditional architecture is due to respect for human and his. In the last half century, the house concept has changed and religious concepts are minimized by weakening the religious beliefs. Iranian traditional home becomes far from independent identity and goes toward uniformity that its origin includes West secularism and human-orientation. This is while; Iranian spiritual culture is against material culture of West. This paper recognizes sacred concepts of traditional residential architecture that is based on harmony between expressional aspect and spiritual message and identifies the manifestation of sacred issue in house. Also, it studies spiritual qualities of quietness that are mentioned in verse 80 of Surah Nahl “æÇááå ÌÚá á ̃ã ãä ÈÌæÊ ̃ã Ó ̃äÇ” and other sacred concepts that refer to human origin as well as it reminders the spiritual world, including: Nature, space, privacy, transcendent order, bottom and surface hierarchy, orientation of house, that is based on principles derived from Islamic world in traditional residential architecture and houses are formed on this basis and restores it in modern housing in compliance with today’s demands and using of recent facilities and achievements.