شیوه های بومی: به عنوان پایه ای برای تنظیم مقررات ساختمان برای مناطق تپه ای

Numerous multi-storeyed buildings with contemporary materials and techniques are being constructed in different hill settlements without respecting the context, which affect health and wellbeing of residents and cause severe damage to sensitive fragile environment in and around hill settlements. Building regulations, which are enforced in hill settlements to regulate development and minimise its ill impacts on environment, are contextually not appropriate and lead to contextually inappropriate development and environmental degradation in environmentally sensitive hill settlements. As vernacular practices are proven to be sustainable, therefore it is essential to take lessons from sustainable vernacular practices for new development and formulation of building regulations for achieving contextually appropriate and sustainable development in hill settlements.