Design Principles for Sustainable Restaurant Case study: Shiraz

Climate change and global warming effects increased worldwide, sustainabilitybecomes the main aspect for constructing new buildings and conserving existingones.Since climate change and global warming effects increased worldwide, sustainabilitybecomes the main aspect for constructing new buildings and conserving existingones (Dimitrokali, ٢٠١٠).Sustainable design should be applied in all phases of the life cycle of a building,including programming, design, building construction, building operation, and finallydemolition.Sustainability is not yet a term which is described in the building decree. However itis a very important theme of this moment .The ultimate scenario would be whenarchitectures meet all the requirements concerning energy and comfort.This article is going to give solutions for designing a sustainable restaurant .Iran isbasically divided into four climatic regions. One of its regions, which consist of themost parts of the central Iranian plateau, receives almost no rain for at least sixmonths of the year; hence it is very hot and dry. This case study is based onsustainable restaurant in Shiraz, a city which is located in Iran‘s hot and dry climatezone with its wide spread area.The sustainable restaurant design is based on principles of architecture in harmonywith the climate of each region and knowing its domestic and natural materials.

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sustainability , sustainable restaurant , energy consumption , sustainabletechnology , Shiraz