Evaluation of Mutual Effects of Design Needs of Urban Blocks on Improving Energy Efficiency and Providing Thermal Comfort in Open Spaces, Case Study: Hamedan City

Considering the crisis of increasing greenhouse gases due to excessive consumption of energy as well as rising temperature and disrupting thermal comfort conditions in urban contexts, it will be significant to carry out more investigations in this field. This study has been carried out to investigate the mutual effects of design in reaching buildings with efficient energy consumption and providing thermal comfort conditions in external spaces. For this purpose, the dominant patterns of urban blocks and open spaces in a cold and mountainous region have been identified. By combining these models and simulating the amount of energy consumption in them with Design Builder software and measuring thermal comfort using Envi-met software, it is tried to introduce a model to establish a balance between these components. These evaluations were done for 12 months. Optimal scenarios show that they can save up to 2/3 of energy in buildings. Morphology with linear and wide blocks and open space with considerable width between buildings can improve energy efficiency inside and thermal comfort outside the buildings.