Under the impact of COVID-19 and needs for urban expansion, a large number outpatient buildings have been rapidly constructed, but problem high energy consumption has always ignored. There is lack research on adaptability building shape in different climate zones. Many studies shown that reasonable early stage design can significantly reduce buildings. Therefore, it helps if architects quickly ...

Climatic events in Mediterranean cities, such as heat waves, directly affect their inhabitants. As a result, outdoor thermal comfort urban spaces is gaining increasing research attention because it associated with the quality of life these cities. Significant improvements have been achieved adaptation buildings; however, similar level resilience to climate not observed spaces. This proposes qua...

abstract a basic aim of low energy architecture is to create a thermally comfortable internal environment for building occupants whilst consuming the least possible amount of energy. in desert countries this aim is more difficult to achieve since high ambient air temperatures create a barrier to comfort. traditional building types of these countries, such as courtyard building, have evolved to ...

An important “architectural type” in Iranian history is the Yazd courtyard house. This historic building type features a walled boundary that contains complex pattern of open (to sky), semi-enclosed and enclosed spaces. The planning these houses has typically been interpreted as either response to changing socio-cultural values or local climatic conditions. Such theories about are based on seri...

abstract this paper by reviewing the main examples of small to medium-scale retractable roof structures covering building courtyards is to present an innovative rigid retractable roof system employing spatial frames for a courtyard of an existing building in tabriz islamic art university. the courtyard is currently used for temporary exhibitions and gatherings whenever permitted by environmenta...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.03.030 0022-1694/ 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding authors at: Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (N. Ma), [email protected] (Y. Zhang). Ning Ma a,b,c,⇑, Jozsef Szilagyi , Guo-Yu...