The Study of Sustainable Development and Climatic Design in Mountainous Zone: A Case Study: Masouleh Town, Iran

This paper attempts presenting one of the contemporary architectural importance known as sustainable design. The aim of this research is to study Masouleh's climatic design in the framework of people comfort in order to access sustainable development. This paper, firstly, pays attention to the explanation of climatic characteristics, geographical and Masouleh native architecture as the main bed and seeks discussing uses of building bioclimatic models of Givoni and Khalili (Heating and Cooling Degree-Days). Therefore, uses of Demartone method for determine climate zone has been discussed. The result has shown that Givoni model has 3 month of comfort in May, June and July. Hence, in June, July nothing is need to HDD,CDD and in the other 10 other months there are needs to HDD as 2420. December with 22, 409 degree-days has the least and the most need for heating, consecutively.