Frontiers of Architectural Research >

2017 , Vol. 6 >Issue 3: 329 - 345

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2017.04.004

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Traditional courtyard houses as amodel for sustainable design: A case study on BWhs mesoclimate of Iran

  • Farzaneh Soflaei , 1 ,
  • Mehdi Shokouhian 2 ,
  • Amir Soflaei 3
Expand
  • 1. School of Architecture and Planning, Morgan State University, United States
  • 2. Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University, United States
  • 3. School of Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Iran

Received date: 15 Oct 2016

Revised date: 15 Apr 2017

Accepted date: 27 Apr 2017

Published date: 26 Sep 2017

Copyright

2017 2017 Higher Education Press Limited Company. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Fold

Abstract

Manifestations of sustainable design require renewable resources, impact the environment minimally, and connect people with the natural environment. This article is aimed to investigate the concept of Iranian traditional courtyards, as microclimate modifiers, for sustainable building design in hot-arid regions. To this end, a quantitative field survey is conducted to analyze various physicalel ements including the orientation, dimensions and proportions of enclosed and open spaces, physical bodies (opaque walls), and transparent surfaces (openings) as well as natural elements (water and soil) in nine valuable Iranian traditional courtyard houses from BWhs mesoclimate. In conclusion, all survey-based data are integrated to proposea physical–environmental design model for courtyards in this region. Proposed model can be generalized to all design cases, where located in BWhs mesoclimate with similar environmental conditions.

Key words： Sustainable design; Traditionalcourtyard houses; Physical environmental design model; Hot-arid climate; BWhs mesoclimate; Iran

Cite this article

Farzaneh Soflaei , Mehdi Shokouhian , Amir Soflaei . Traditional courtyard houses as amodel for sustainable design: A case study on BWhs mesoclimate of Iran[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2017 , 6(3) : 329 -345 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2017.04.004

Options
Outlines

/

〈 〉