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Volume 4 (2); December 25, 2015


Research Paper

Optimization of Energy Consumption Using Modern Smart Making Techniques towards Goals of Sustainable Development.

Alamrasi M.

J. Art Arch. Stud., 4(2): 27-34, 2015; pii:S238315531500004-4

Abstract

Goal of this study is to offer guidelines in order to optimize consumption of energy in buildings using modern smart-making techniques toward achievement of sustainable development goals. Considering high rates of energy consumption and increase in consumption of fossil fuels, the most important approach in designing buildings is to lower energy consumption. According to statistics, 40 to 50 percent of energy in the country is consumed in building sector and causes environmental pollution and destruction. Modern construction technologies which are being widely used in industrial countries are a step toward reducing energy waste. Smart building is among modern construction technologies in architecture that controls energy consumption and largely contributes to optimizing energy consumption and its waste and as well as saving time and expenses of maintaining building apart from comfort and safety that provides within building. Such systems are in full interaction with the environment and reduce damage to the environment. Therefore, in this study, scientific guidelines using energy management techniques in terms of benefits arising from smart buildings and making buildings smart is investigated. Results of this study suggest the possibility of using modern technologies and smart equipment within buildings to optimize energy consumption in residential buildings as a model for architectural plans in order to lower energy consumption toward economic development and interaction with the environment. Using Modern Smart Making Techniques Toward Goals of Sustainable Development
Keywords: Intelligent Systems, Optimization Of Energy Consumption, Sustainable Development

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Research Paper

Context comfort feature improvement regarding urban blocks designing based on maximal utilization of passive solar energy (Case study: Latman Kan residential site).

Samiee Kashi S.

J. Art Arch. Stud., 4(2): 35-44, 2015; pii:S238315531500005-4

Abstract

Solar energy utilization to achieve a thermal comfort and energy saving is of a remarkable importance. For this purpose, it is necessary to found buildings in a way for them to be exposed with the winter sunlight, maximally benefit the sunlight. Due to the increasing number of high-rise urban constructions, it seems necessary to set up mandatory regulations for both architects and urban planners in order to gain adequate solar accessibility for building blocks. Researches done suggest that a generic energy efficient building form derives from cutting solar profiles in a conventional block. Architects and urban planners should identify the effective factors in this field and use them in their designs. The purpose of this study is to identify the effective factors on maximizing the potential of passive solar energy utilization. Due to increasing urban density, the issue of distances between blocks is of great importance and should be determined according to building heights for adjacent apartment blocks and solar profiles. This study, after introducing some strategies, computes these ratios in Tehran, Tabriz and Yazd in the three cold months of the year, November, January, March, and at the three hours of the day. It also studies a residential town’s amount of ghosting and solar energy loss due to ignoring the proper distance necessary between blocks.
Keywords: Building density, Passive solar energy, Solar geometry, Urban blocks

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Research Paper

Investigating the Implications of Sustainable Architecture in the Native Architecture of Residential Areas in Iran (A Case Study of Warm and Dried Climate in Kashan City).

Mojtabavi SM, Validad MT

J. Art Arch. Stud., 4(2): 45-50, 2015; pii:S238315531500006-4

Abstract

In the modern world, as time passes by, native methods that are compatible with the nature are gradually being forgotten. Buildings and their architecture are getting more technology oriented, and have no harmony with nature and human’s soul. One way to achieve quality missing in today's world can be a peaceful return to the indigenous construction techniques leading us to a satisfactory quality that we, as humans, need in our houses. This article refers to the principles of sustainable architecture and in the meantime it tries to assess the traditional houses in Kashan regarding their indigenous architecture. Studied cases are comparatively evaluated with the principles of sustainable architecture. With the use of these experiences, native methods could be used to reconstruct such residential areas. As a conclusion we can say unlike the architecture of modern buildings, indigenous architecture experiences and techniques, because they optimize the use of natural climatic factors, have been very successful, and can be used to design new climatically oriented architecture.
Keywords: Sustainable Quality, Indigenous, Residential, Kashan

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