Sustainable Traditional Architecture and Urban Planning in Hot-Humid Climate of Iran

This paper concentrates on the sustainable traditional architecture and urban planning in hot-humid regions of Iran. In a vast country such as Iran with different climatic zones traditional builders have presented series of logical solutions for human comfort. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate traditional architecture in hothumid climate of Iran as a sample of sustainable architecture. Iranian traditional architecture has been able to response to environmental problems for a long period of time. Its features are based on climatic factors, local construction materials of hot-humid regions and culture. This paper concludes that Iranian traditional architecture can be addressed as a sustainable architecture.

Authors:

• Farnaz Nazem

Keywords:

• Hot-humid climate
• Iran
• Sustainable Traditional architecture
• Urban planning.

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