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Based on documents and studies about rural housing and architecture, although the Rural houses have many architectural values regarding to their aesthetic patterns, building
materials, simplicity without any ornaments, adaptation to family needs and earning methods, they have many deficits and are prone to natural disasters. There is interference of living
and economic-productive spaces that cause indoor pollution. Mean while so many of these defects and advantages haven’t been studied. In addition the problems are not unique in the different parts of Iran. So it is necessary having knowledge about the specific characteristic of each individual area of our country.
The definition of standard rural housing characteristics and the results of studies about current housing characteristics in the different parts of our country, which has been done in Jan 2004, have been shown in this essay. Meanwhile the
current differences in qualitative and quantitative needs of rural housing in the different areas have been shown. In addition the emphasis on avoiding unique plan and program for different states has also been mentioned.