Abstract
Environment and energy are the greatest issue facing today's civilization on the earth. The massive consumption of energy in order to raise the standard of living is endangering the natural environment in the global scale. Architecture, with its aim to create a comfortable and convenient living space, is facing the same dilemma. This is the result of overly adhering to the “energy-oriented” technological paradigm of the modern age in which problem-solving attempts are based on the consumption of energy. An alternative to this would be an “environment-oriented” paradigm in which the potential of the natural environment endowed to the region would be incorporated in the probe for architectural designs. This alternative might be called BIOCLIMATIC DESIGN.
