Analysis of climatic adaptability and heating and cooling arrangements of Median architecture of Nush-i-jan complex

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1 Graduated/Faculty of Art and Architecture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

2 Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Bu-Ali Sina University

3 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran

10.22084/nb.2023.27522.2568

Abstract

Studying the climatic adaptability of the architecture of an ancient building is possible by benefiting from the sciences of archeology, architecture, geography, applied climatology and paleoclimatology. Conducting such studies in connection with the religious complex of Nush-i-jan in the Malayer plain, belonging to the Median period, adds new information to the scope of our knowledge of the architecture of the mentioned period. The current research seeks to evaluate three main questions: 1) What were the physical components of the architecture of Nush-i-jan complex in order to adapt it to climatic conditions? 2) How effective were these components in line with the mentioned issue? And 3) What were the non-physical heating or cooling arrangements of the complex? The necessary information has been collected by library and field methods and analyzes of four softwares, AutoCAD, Climate Consultant, Ecotect, and DesignBuilder in the field of energy and architecture and processed in a descriptive-analytical way. The physical components of the architecture of the complex include its orientation towards the south with east-west extension, high density and height of buildings and the creation of passages and courtyards with a small width, the use of mud-brick in the construction of walls and creating a flat cover of a wooden beam, the installation of an entrance door for most of the buildings, The side windows in the eastern and southern walls and ventilators, the construction of the counter at the entrance of most of the buildings and two fire-places in the guard room of the fort. These components are effective in using the radiant heat of the sun and reducing the influence of adverse winds in the direction of heating the residents at all hours from May to September and some hours on other days of the year and meeting their cooling needs in all hot days of the year.

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pazhoheshha-ye Bastan shenasi Iran

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 21 June 2023

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