Energy-Saving Patterns of Iranian Traditional Architecture in Various Climates

Abstract

Iranian traditional architecture has always been a good example of climatic design and represents the techniques which our ancestors have found to improve their living conditions. By paying attention on Iranian traditional architecture we could confirm that its rules suit buildings in best way in sustainability and in correspondence to the local cultural, topographical and climatic conditions which have the least adverse effect on environment. One of the most significant features of traditional Iranian architecture is the special architectural specification in various climates, which makes each region distinct from the others. Investigations of different Iranian regions indicate that in past, different techniques and methods for controlling and making air movement in interior space of the building were common. Harsh climate of these areas in Iran forced people to build their houses with some strategies based on efficient energy consumption. In this paper different solutions of sustainability will be discussed in three different climate regions of Iran: hot-arid region, hot-humid region and humid-rainy regions (Southern Shores of Caspian Sea Region)

Wykorzystanie podziemi: krok w kierunku zrównoważonego rozwoju w prowincji Chuzestan w Iranie

“…Human has always sought to create suitable spaces that would provide him comfort with the least energy, including the underlying layers of the soil. Living in underground spaces has a long period of human history and this returns to the habitation in the caves and before the modern technology leads to the construction of the usual buildings on the ground (Reddy, 2003;Fardpour, 2013). The underground architecture is rooted in traditional Iranian architecture, is the answer to the problem of human interaction with the environment (Khaki and Sadat, 2015).…”