Abstract
The energy crisis in 1970s and environmental problems following that affected many human activities and caused the field of architectural design, as one of the factors contributing to the high consumption of energy, to face a difficult challenge. Hence, the issue of environmental protection, the need for future generations and enjoying free energies, proposed a new concept as "sustainability" in all sciences. According to the studies conducted, the principles of sustainable architecture have been partially met in many of our local and traditional buildings. The main aim of this study is to investigate the concept of sustainability and describe its relations with the vernacular architecture of Iran. In this regard, this study is supposed to give an appropriate response to the problems raised using library research and analytical-descriptive method; and finally by investigating and analysis of various specifications sustainable architecture, to provide design principles of sustainable architecture in the current era.
Highlights
As a result of disrupting the balance of life, getting away from nature and human values, lack of attention to environmental and vernacular factors, dominative behavior and instrumental use of nature, modern human is encountering crisis and a vague hazardous future
The main aim of this study is to investigate the concept of sustainability and describe its relations with the vernacular architecture of Iran
Unstable development is related to new centuries that due to human access to advanced machines, fossil fuels, increase of population, and excessive increase of demand and context for unsustainability of nature areas and biological crisis, has brought social and cultural transformations and decrease of the power of religion and prevalence of environmental selfishness
Summary
As a result of disrupting the balance of life, getting away from nature and human values, lack of attention to environmental and vernacular factors, dominative behavior and instrumental use of nature, modern human is encountering crisis and a vague hazardous future. This has caused gradual formation of an approach called sustainable development. In discussing sustainable development and sustainable architecture, the issue that each building should interact with its context and surrounding natural environment has become something evident. In the following, definitions of sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable architecture and design principles in this view of architecture, will be discussed by analytical – descriptive method
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