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Family as the smallest member of society, always have Value, high position and privacy. Houses, as the position of this steady institution, also had been dignity and privacy (before and after Islam). Role of privacy in life according to teachings and commands of Islam and cultural affiliations of the people in Iran, is no secret to anyone. Pirnia in book of the styles of Iranian architecture, defines the introverted houses as privacy examples. Extroverted houses are known as symbols of privacy less than introverted types. Are extrovert houses without privacy? Is Privacy in extrovert houses have the same value and credibility such as introverted houses? What are the privacy examples in extroverted houses? What are the privacy patterns in extroverted houses? The necessity of this research due to the growing trend of new construction and insists on increasing the number of floors, occupancy levels and building density, is obvious. The purpose of this research is familiarity about effective patterns of privacy in extroverted houses. For this purpose, a number of historic houses in Sari, as examples of a building with extroverted architecture located in a temperate humid climate, elected. This research seeks to analysis privacy patterns in traditional extroverted houses, in order to recognizing the need for privacy in extroverted houses, according to important of orders in Islam and rich culture of Iranian. Research method is descriptive – analytical which has been used for the subject under discussion with review and analysis from records of existing studies. For this study, conventional methods of data collection has been used. In section of library studies, theoretical studies of the subject have been reviewed and implications of privacy are extracted from the books of scholars, pundits and verses and Islamic traditions. In surveys by attending in historical context of Sari and analysis of studied houses, we have studied the examples of privacy in these houses. The findings of this study is identifying factors affecting visual privacy and offering privacy patterns in extroverted houses. The parameters of privacy are entrance, vestibule, corridor, enclosed courtyard, openings, exterior facade and hierarchy of access. Obviously, however this will not solve all the problems caused by lack of privacy, but it can reduce the damaging effects of the lack of privacy in the house today.