The aim of the Master thesis was to recognize and record the indigenous architecture of Beyram District in Larestan Province (Iran) that is in the path of an inevitable alien housing design reform that brings about the forgetting of the tradition of making indigenous houses. This has been done to find a design guideline for a suitable house in this area considering its social and cultural background, climate and economical issues. A house that comes out of the heart of Beyram’s vernacular architecture and can fulfil the needs of its habitants’ everyday life-style and heightens the quality of their lives. The research has been done in two phases: a library research and a field study. The field study has been done in three steps: (a) realizing and understanding; (b) data analysis; and (c) extracting results and guidelines. The instruments of this phase were intrusive observations, interviews , and taking photos and videos. Forty houses of owners with different socio-economic status in Beyram and its villages were observed. Nineteen houses were selected as cases to be studied in this thesis. The interviews were unstructured. Qualitative data analyses started with classifying and summarizing the gathered data into tables and maps and ended with comparing and analyzing photos, maps, and interviews. Finally the design guidelines were extracted and a house were designed based on the guidelines.
