International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health

International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health

Human–Architecture–Environment Interaction Based on Seasonal Displacement in Traditional Medicine (Case Study: Housing in Iran’s Hot and Dry Climate)

Articles in Press

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Mohammad Mannan mannan Raeesi 1
Hamed Hayaty 2
Fatemeh Amereh 3
1 Faculty of Islamic Architecture, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.
2 Ph.D. in Architecture, Assistant Professor, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.
3 MSc in Architecture, University of Qom, Qom, Iran.
10.30491/ijtmgh.2026.582723.1530
Abstract
Human beings have always sought ways to preserve their health through a preventive approach. One of the means of addressing health and preventing various diseases is to ensure it through environmental health and the effective relationship between residential and natural environments.
Part of the climatic strategies for organizing life and creating healthy living environments has been documented in medical texts from the Islamic period. Classical physicians regarded the preservation of human health as the primary goal of medicine and considered it dependent on the interaction and adaptation of human beings to the climatic environment, based on the structural correspondence between human temperament and the four elements of nature. The aim of this study is to examine the background of traditional climatic knowledge concerning the interaction between human beings and the natural and built environment, using a historical-interpretive method and drawing upon traditional medical texts.
The findings indicate that the medical foundations of climatic design based on seasonal displacement refer to such features as site selection, temporal regulation, vertical stratification, and spatial orientation. In this context, seasonal displacement, as a form of climatic lifestyle and climatic therapy, as well as intra-house seasonal displacement as an appropriate climatic strategy, can also be applied to help maintain health in contemporary houses.
Keywords
Residential architecture
traditional medicine
seasonal displacement
temporal regulation
site selection
International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 09 August 2026

  • Receive Date 22 May 2026
  • Revise Date 19 June 2026
  • Accept Date 20 June 2026