Sustainable Design under the Effects of Climatic Parameters (Case Study: Nur City, Mazandaran, Iran)

Abstract

The importance of climate on building design, requires the necessity of a comprehensive study and research in this field. Particularly for Iran having many climatic varieties, a vast study in the field of harmonic architecture is needed because of its special climate; it seems that a proper and desirable designing for any kind of area and climate, requires an appreciation of challenges that architecture need it to reach a sustenance. Thus, in this paper, the environmental, geographical and climatical features and also the architectural characteristics of Nur city are studied by analyzing and depicting present situations and studying the outcomes of previous researches in this field. Meanwhile subjects such as sustenance, architecture and sustainable designing principles are studied by practical researches for a better designing. The suggested approaches for climatic designing on the buildings of Nur City in accordance with sustainable design patterns are presented as well. What was gained as a result was that by combining the rules and traditional approaches with modern techniques, we can impress on designing sustainable buildings with more impressive and appropriate function in Nur City.