Designing Context-Oriented Housing in Distressed Area “Case Study: Evin Neighborhood in Tehran”

Urban distressed areas used to refer legal areas of cities that is vulnerable due to the physical deterioration, lack of appropriate availability to vehicles, facilities, services and urban infrastructure, and have suitable spatial, environmental and economic value. These textures have no possibilities of self-renewal due to poverty of their inhabitants and owners and also investors have no incentive to invest in it. The aim of this paper is to find new ideas for housing design in distressed areas located in Evin neighborhood – district one in Tehran. Studying and evaluating behavior patterns of people in order to responding their needs in legal framework is considered and also designer proposal is studied in order to introduce patterns in designing residential complex based on preserving native architecture, attention to the shape and topography of the land and designing neighborhood units by using Evin ecological potentials. key words: Renovating distressed areas, Designing field-oriented, Preserving the identity of neighborhood, housing design, Evin neighborhood.