Designing Principles for Energy Efficiency in Residential Complex in Iran

Abstract

Nowadays, energy is a vital issue for many countries. The reason stems from fast energy consumption and it assumes that after certain time, human being is not able to exploit fuel fossils. Therefore, it is necessary to preserve energy and natural facilities and make them efficient. Then, most countries were paying attention to solutions leading to fewer problems for environment. In the meantime, architectural spaces can be presented as a vast area that human beings’ activities are taken place and it can play an important role to protect environment, reduce environmental pollutions and save energy. Therefore, sustainable architecture is an important approach for designing and making spaces. In other words, sustainable architecture is trying to represent a model, which is based on climate, local material and existed energy.