چكيده به لاتين
The sun is fundamental to all life. It is the source of our vision, warmth, energy, and the rhythm of our lives. The solar envelope regulates development within imaginary boundaries derived from the sun’s relative motion. The open spaces of traditional Iranian buildings (courtyards), are symbolic excerpts of nature that highlight the functional, climatic, aesthetic, social and human context. The lack of this valuable pattern and its unnecessary deletion from contemporary traditional architecture on the one hand and the failure to replace the appropriate one on the other hand, have inflicted countless blight on the body of today's architectural community. The main aim of this study is to design a suitable courtyard with a solar envelope -after the link between the idea of solar accessibility and the solar envelope with the architectural form- to optimize the consumption through receiving the maximum solar radiation and also avoid the buildings to shade on each other. In this paper quantitative and analytical methods have been applied. At first, by the help of computer simulations at GRAS Hopper & Honeybee software, the solar envelope is produced. Then different alternatives for the central courtyard are offered and based on their analysis by Design Builder software, the designing methods are introduced.
