Sustainable Development in Iranian Architecture

Growth of population and economics are leading environmental problems and it’s incompatibility with the environment has cause extensive changes and disrupted natural condition of many spots in the world. Achieving sustainable development requires sensible use of natural resources. It is making substantial change in human’s attitude toward nature and reconsideration of production and consumption patterns. Sustainable architecture or Green architecture which has attracted the attention of many architects with different points of view all over the world. Nowadays, Sustainable architecture, the way of architectural design which is based on environmental aspects in human’s life architecture is absolutely a main leading factor, because buildings and structures are the most important and extensive changes that the humans have made on the earth. In this study, the principles of using Green architecture is discussed and according to this we are going to talk more about the regions and their sustainable systems used in each region of Iran.

Keywords:

Sustainable development , Green process , Sustainable design , Energy , Iranian traditional architecture.