TRADITIONAL SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS IN IRANIAN DESERT ARCHITECTURE TO SOLVE THE ENERGY PROBLEM

The sustainable architecture that advances to a point in order to be allowed to reach its aims and goals deems necessary the design off any building with the least adverse effect on environment as well as design consistent with nature. Thus by considering the traditional Iranian architecture, it is observed that Iranian architectural characteristics conform to the rules of sustainable architecture; and can obtain sustainability in modern architecture by being reveled by certain features of traditional Iranian one. This paper concentrates on the results sustainability caused by climatic elements in Iranian traditional architecture in Hot-Arid regions. In a vast country such as Iran, with different climatic zone, traditional builders have presented a series of logical solutions human comfort.

کلیدواژه ها:

Sustainable architecture ، Iranian traditionalarchitecture ، Hot-Arid zone architecture ، Environmental architecture ، Energy