Traditional Passive Design Solutions as a Key Factor for Sustainable Modern Urban Designs in the Hot, Arid Climate of the United Arab Emirates

Sustainable architecture is a key approach for creating sustainable cities and reducing the impact of climate change. In hot, arid regions, passive design traditional known its ability to provide comfortable indoor environments outdoor shaded areas, in contrast use energy-intensive air conditioners great deal modern architecture. Thus, this research used qualitative methodology based on ENVI-met software study, investigate, compare thermal performance two urban fabrics as case studies (traditional districts) United Arab Emirates. The old districts was better than new ones, with lower maximum potential temperature an improvement level comfort, measured by predicted mean vote. Moreover, it found that enhancing shade open areas district, mimicking solutions, resulted PMVs. This expected be one step among many towards sustainable, innovative