Comparative Study on Passive Solar Building

Abstract: Passive solar design, an idea within the growing trend of green building, is a creative way to use the sun to our advantage, both for heating and cooling, based on the design of buildings. Attempt has been made by engineers by increasing the thickness, changing the geometry of the outer wall and also tried several building materials to reduce temperature fluctuations for indoor environment in both summer and winter. The installation of heating and air conditioning to seek comfort in homes, offices and public places has created high energy consumption and consequently, increased the environmental pollution. One of the painters of sustainability in architecture is the use of natural energy and fossil energy consumption and minimum natural environmental conditions and climate so solar building designs which is a step towards its achieving. In this paper, has been expressed the important factors in solar buildings design. These factors are included external factors and internal factors. Keywords: Solar Energy, Architecture, Optimization, Building.