Authors : Davoud Zolfaghari and Mozayan Dehbashi Sharif
Abstract: Now a days as the population and immigration from villages to urban areas have grown for various reasons, life space has decreased from houses villas to apartments. Aside from the house crisis, there are more serious crisis like water and energy crisis. The limitations of energy sources have turned into fundamental crises throughout the world and buildings make up a vast part if energy consumption. By being aware if this fact, along with the issues of environment protection and reduction of air pollution of cities, the need of using sources and supplies in a better way are further brought up. In order to deal with these problems, a universal thought called ‘sustainable development’ has made since the last forty years and international communities have provided many strategies including changing approaches in lifestyle to complete it. Now with the ruling condition in the world and the country, it is appropriate to use nonrenewable resources in certain places and to think of providing energy through sustainable methods and also to attempt to prevent energy from being wasted. Therefore, Iran’s traditional architecture which possesses exclusive features meets the climatic need of every region in addition to paying attention to the environment protection and aesthetic issues.
Davoud Zolfaghari and Mozayan Dehbashi Sharif, 2017. Designing a Residential Complex through the Sustainable Architecture Approach (Green Architecture). Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 2822-2826.