Mojtaba Samimi1*, Laya Parvizsedghy2 and Morteza Adib1

1 Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 Faculty of Art, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
* Corresponding Author, mojtaba_samimi@yahoo. com

Abstract

It is strongly recommended to apply local properties of each location especially the effect of the sun to answer questions about the form and orientation of buildings, the shape and amount of openings in each direction, and the layout of building masses beside each other.

Considering that qualitative methods of climatic site analysis may not include exact properties of each location and also as the other existing quantitative methods are almost complex and time-consuming which are not easy to use especially in the first steps of design; in this article, by describing the method which defines local kind and unkind faces of the sun, after collecting positive and negative gain of each direction trough the year, generating score of each direction is resulted for different cities of Iran.

Finally “Solarch.-VisiorT the computer program based on this method is presented, which brings a brand new vision to the architects, urban designers and landscape architects to discover the advantage/disadvantage of decisions about kind/unkind faces of the sun in each location through the design process.

Keywords: Solarch.-Vision, solar analysis, architecture, eco-design