Since the energy consumption has become one of the crisis of modern buildings, modeling the Iranian past architecture patterns could be helpful. The shopping streets as one of the main sectors consuming energy locate near the open spaces it seems, therefore, they need more thermal comfort. However, using passive techniques, the Iranian traditional bazaars architecture solved the problems regard...

water is one of the important elements in the decoration of iranian buildings and monuments. in fact, water has been employed in forms including the pool, fountains and streams with exquisite drawings manifested in buildings belonging to the early period of islamic architecture. investigations of the present study can demonstrate that certain styles used in water design during the period are of...

Under the background of global warming and energy crisis, exploring new relationship between architecture climate has always been a hot spot in construction industry. Thus, design pattern “meteorological architecture” guided by localized meteorological condition is developed. The paper starts with distinction concepts “meteorology” “climate” to explains connotation architecture”. Through analys...

the objective of this paper is to develop an artificial neural network (ann) model which can beused to predict temperature rise due to climate change in regional scale. in the present work data recorded overyears 1985-2008 have been used at training and testing steps for ann model. the multilayer perceptron(mlp) network architecture is used for this purpose. three applied optimization methods a...

NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | VOL 4 | DECEMBER 2014 | www.nature.com/natureclimatechange The top-down approach to mitigating climate change as exemplified by the UNFCCC negotiations and the Kyoto Protocol has all but stalled, due to a panoply of political objections. To craft a more workable policy, states and non-state actors alike have shifted their focus to bottom-up ‘linkage’ of multinational, na...