DOI: 10.5176/2301-394X_ACE13.86
Authors: Hourieh Abna, Mohammad Aghaei
Abstract:
The issue of using new energies for building cooling and heating has attracted the architects' and other related engineers' attention in the recent years, and resulted in their approaching towards some designs which connect human, nature and architecture. In addition, execution of some proper methods in order to reduce the expenses of using fossil fuels in buildings is also considerable. Due to lack of technological facilities in the past, ancient architects in Iran and some other countries used to apply wise and reasonable principles and strategies in order to utilize natural energies in constructing the buildings. One of these strategies was applying wind energy in auto-air conditioning of the buildings by making use of long and narrow towers called wind catchers. Unfortunately this critical component of the Iranian buildings has been forgotten nowadays due to construction of high and multi-story buildings which the traditional wind catchers are no longer able to supply their cooling. Thus, this research emphasizes on reconstructing vitalizing the traditional wind catchers and increasing their efficacy, and tries to present some strategies for improving the efficacy of the traditional wind catchers. By using this ancient Iranian system again, not only we can utilize clear energies which are compatible with natural ecosystems, but also consumption of fossil fuels for cooling of the buildings may be economized up to 50 to 60 percent.
Keywords: New energies; non-renewable resources; wind catcher; efficacy improvement; economizing in energy consumption
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