Thermal comfort analysis of earth-sheltered buildings: The case of meymand village, Iran

Vernacular buildings are known for their localized passive settings to provide comfortable indoor environment without air conditioning systems. One alternative is the consistent ground temperature over year that earth-sheltered envelopes take benefit; however, ensuring annual comfort might be challenging. Thus, this research monitors thermal indicators of 22 in Meymand, Iran with a warm-dry climate. Furthermore, observations used validate simulation results through two outdoor and environmental parameters, relative humidity during hottest period year. Findings indicated main differences among case studies were mainly due architectural layouts where associated variables including length, width, height, orientation, window-to-wall ratio, shading depth optimized linkage between Ladybug-tools Genetic Algorithm (GA) concerning adaptive model definition could enhance by 31%.