Abstract
With the gradual improvement of living standard, the residents' demand for living comfort has also been improved. In order to meet the living needs of different people, architects applied the achievements ofmodern science and technology to urban construction, nevertheless, they seldom paid much attention to the architectural needs of ordinary residents in rural areas. Thus some rural housing can not well satisfy the residents' need. At present, there are still a lot of people using cave dwelling as living space in the Loess. Plateau. We conducted a field study about some representative independent cave dwelling construction Yan An city in Shaanxi province. We analyzed the light environment and thermal environment of cave dwellings based on the field investigation of several cave dwellings in Yan An. It is found that the indoor thermalenvironment of cave dwelling has obvious advantages compared with other types of buildings, but it still has shortcomings such as insufficient day lighting and poor indoor air quality. Based on the analysis of the mainfactors affecting the the light environment and the thermal environment, the suggestions for improving theindoor environment of the cave dwellings are put forward.
