Attia, Shady Galal Mohamed
[UCL]
De Herde, André
[UCL]
In this paper, bioclimatic design strategies in vernacular Egyptian
architecture have been analysed for three different climatic regions of Egypt. The
climatic regions of Egypt are: hot dry, hot mild and hot humid regions. The design
strategies were extracted from existing vernacular architecture in each region. All
of the vernacular buildings in these regions include strategies that are technically,
environmentally, socially, and economically valid. However, for the last 50 years,
modern buildings were depending on highly subsidized energy prices, which
eventually produced obviously an architecture that is energetically and
environmentally degrading. Therefore, the aim of this study is to enable architects
to re-understand the lessons of tradition, because the way towards bioclimatic
architecture should start by understanding vernacular architecture. The paper
presents a set of bioclimatic principles addressing (1) urban morphologies, (2)
building architecture and (3) vernacular architectural components. They are not
intended as a set recipe that must be followed, but have been selected to show the
range of bioclimatic and vernacular design strategies that exist to overcome
individual problem in buildings. Finally, the study developed a comparative matrix
that can support architects with the principles and strategies for bioclimatic design.
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Bibliographic reference |
Attia, Shady Galal Mohamed ; De Herde, André. Bioclimatic Architecture Design Strategies in Egypt. In: Sustainable Energy Technologies, Vol. 1, no. 1 (2009) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/92532 |