in: RESEARCH & REVIEWS IN ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND DESIGN, ZÜBEYDE ÖZLEM PARLAK BİÇER,FEHİME YEŞİM GÜRANİ, Editor, Gece Kitaplığı, Ankara, pp.1-16, 2022
Buildings must provide users to live in a physically, mentally and
climatologically comfortable built environment with the necessary
conditions. The similarity of the necessary conditions for providing comfort
in hot-dry climatic conditions, which can be seen in different parts of the
world, results in similar architectural design features. The requirements
for buildings in hot-dry climatic zones are to reduce the rise in indoor air
temperature during summer days, keep the indoor air temperature and
thermal mass of the building cool during summer nights, and keep the
ambient temperature within the comfort temperature value. While passive
air-conditioning and heating systems meet these requirements, they also
form the building design parameters for hot-dry climatic zones and provide
energy conservation.