The Influence of Dynamic Envelopes on the Efficiency of Thermal Performance of Hot – Arid Zones Buildings

	The Influence of Dynamic Envelopes on the Efficiency of Thermal Performance of Hot – Arid Zones Buildings
Journal of Engineering
Article 1, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 686-703
Abstract
This research studies the subject of finding efficient climatic buildings whose envelops are characterized by a high dynamic movement that enables them to react and integrate in accordance with seasons’ changing in our hot – arid zones. The importing of architectural thoughts and the emergence of new techniques have led to the evolution of an intellectual and urban trend that disagrees with the least environmentally and urbanely characteristics of these regions, and consequently, the evolution of a kind of architecture that does not belong to its environmental reality, therefore, it has stopped in between the non-considering of the environment and the keeping up with the western intellect and between confining to traditional architecture. Thus, the architect’s thought and designs should be based on the deep understanding of the current potentialities of the age concerning choosing the suitable materials and investing what others has reached concerning the suitable technical and epistemic progress along with making use of and inspiring from our rich architectural heritage and all what it contains concerning a comprehensive and deep understanding of the climatic problems, and at the same time, these thoughts and designs belong to its environment and utilizing its surrounding geographical and climatic features to reach to the drawing of futuristic paths in establishing a harmonious and balanced with the surrounding environment to achieve the equation of thermal balance for our buildings and then putting architecture on its right environmental way. The research takes the problem through balancing between the employment of modern techniques in a simply way on one hand, and the use of the natural climatic design methods on the other hand, in order to establish dynamic buildings that imitate the severe climatic changes in the hot – arid areas during the year, and then by raising the level of the buildings futuristic architectural designs since these buildings explore and imitate the future and already interacting with it by the present information and at the same time inspire from the architecture of the past and make use of it in a contemporary style, in order to reach to the formation of a kind of architecture that is conditioned with the surrounding climatic conditions and is capable of resistance in the future. The importance of the research’s subject is that it supports the worldwide interest of modern technology, and at the same time, it imitates traditional architecture through constructing dynamic buildings responding to the surrounding climatic changes.

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