A solution for future designs using techniques from vernacular architecture in southern Iran

Abstract

Abstract. Nowadays in modern life, every technology and technique for comfortable life is available. People with low income, in other words, with low levels of economic power, can also have those facilities to stay warm in winter and stay cool in summer. Many years back when there were no advanced systems for human needs, passive strategies played a big role in peoples' lives. This paper concentrates on a small city in Iran that had used special strategies to solve peoples' environmental issues. The city is called Evaz, which is located in the Fars region of Iran with distance around 20 km from Gerash city and 370 km from south east of Shiraz. Evaz receives minimum rainfall, which is the reason why water is limited in this area and therefore, cisterns (water storage) had been used for many years that is studied in more detail in this paper. In summers, the climate is hot and dry, sometimes the external temperatures reaching around 46°C during the day. Although the winters are typically cold and likewise dry, moderate climate is available in Evaz during autumn and spring. This study identifies some of the past strategies and describes them in detail with analysis for transformation and connections with the modern and traditional fundamentals. Furthermore, the study develops some solutions utilizing a combination of both modern and traditional techniques in design to suggest better and more effective ways to save energy, and at the same time to remain sustainable for the future.

Investigation of ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II and its Impact on the Development of Effective Passive Design Systems

“…As was previously explained, adaptive thermal comfort theory is directly linked with the effectiveness of passive cooling systems can be applied to modern residential building envelopes in order to diminish indoor air ambient temperatures in the summer. Many researchers highlighted that passive systems could help to increase the infiltration rate of which is a modification of the micro-climate and changes in the conditions of the immediate surroundings (Givoni, 1994;Mirahmadi & Altan, 2018). In the presents study, several of the studies are analysed in the following subsections prove that combining strategies on a larger scale can affect the climate of an entire area.…”

“…Passive evaporative cooling systems can mostly be found in hot-dry and hot-humid climate regions of the world (Givoni, 1994). This is a traditional Middle Eastern building-system pattern that stretches from India to Cyprus and is often applied to residential buildings in order to optimise indoor thermal comfort under severe summer temperature conditions (Mirahmadi & Altan, 2018). As was previously stated, passive-evaporative cooling systems were the subject of this investigation; from this point onward, these systems will be tailored with the integration of porous ceramic material intended for natural ventilation of indoor environments in residential retrofitting efforts.…”