THE PRINCIPLES OF GREEN ARCHITECTURE IN HOT AND HUMID CLIMATIC ZONES
ARCHITECTURE
Keywords:
Green Architecture Principles, Hot Humidity climatic, Thermal Comfort, Energy consumption
Abstract
In the last decade, the industrial revolution has resulted in rapid development in human society as result of overpopulation. Generally, building construction sector and it is related in industries is the major consumer of natural resources as they are consuming about 60…70% of the world energy production. The contemporary buildings in the Arabian Gulf cities and in UAE have a modern luxurious architectural design styles with fully glazing elevations, which are unsuited to the hot humidity climate. The UAE government calls to start new architecture design strategies to apply the Green Architecture principles for the new coming buildings for reducing the consumption of energy in order to decrease the UAE's Carbon footprint.
