Environmental and Social Sustainability of Roofed Alley in Yazd City

Ehsan Valipour is Iranian architecture. He has massive concerns about environmental and social sustainability in an urban scale also the issue of urban morphology. He is following his Ph.D. program of architecture at Department of Architecture and construction of the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

The main aim of sustainable architecture is a combination of architectural solutions to provide comfort zones base on environmental situation. Historical architecture shows the experience of humans, which is a reflection of this issue to the built environment. One of the major problems of cities in hot and dry climate is a high level of heat in urban space and lack of comfort in outdoor spaces. This issue has a direct effect on quality of outdoor activates as well. However, in the vernacular architecture of Yazd city in Iran, which is located in the hot and dry region. This issue was solved by designing roofed alleys to create shady spaces as much as possible as a sustainable architectural tool, which helped to provide outdoor activates. This study has been focused on the spatial sustainability of roofed alley in Yazd city because of roofed alley created by the combination of sustainability and vernacular architecture. These issues are main points of the roofed alley which caused to build it with attention to vernacular design, climate, and geography of Yazd city.