Designing a Building Form to Utilize Renewable Energies

Abstract

Designing correct architectural buildings has great impact on reducing energy consumption and its waste. The building forms are one of the issues that should be considered in order to achieve sustainable architecture. This study aimed to introduce architects the methods and principals to achieve sustainable regional architecture through analytical-descriptive approach. The principals and characteristics used in this study include: the form volume, form stretching, form height, place and ratio of empty and filled places in the form, materials used in constructing the form, and the facilities place in the building form. Proportionate to the analysis in each place, the example of historical and current architecture were used to better understanding of the topic and sometimes comparative comparison was done as well. Some solutions were also introduced in order to get appropriate form.