The Climate Zoning of Office Buildings with an Emphasis on Radiant Factors in Hot and Dry Regions: A Case Study of Kerman

Climate zoning is the identification of zones with the same climate. With the expansion of quantitative methods, traditional methods of cluster classification have been replaced by new methods, such as various interpolation methods in the field of climatological zoning studies. In this study, we evaluated the zoning of radiation effects on the administrative spaces of Kerman city. Accordingly, the ordinary Kriging interpolation method is used along with circular, Gaussian, and spherical models for data interpolation with error criteria including root square error (RMS), its standardized value (SRMS), standard mean (Ms Mean Mean), and Mean Square Error (ASE). These factors are intended for accuracy evaluation. This research is a descriptive-analytical study on the basis of spatial analysis using the GIS system. The results of the final maps produced for climate zoning (radiological factors) showed that the angle of the sun shine is right in the equinoxes and horizontal in the revolutions. Therefore, radiation is more in the offices uptown and less in the ones downtown. The latter case is due to the presence of mountains in the south of the city. Also, solar radiation is maximal in the northern and eastern regions while it is the lowest in the west and the south. In proportion to the AD months and with regard to the amount radiation in offices in equinoxes and revolutions, it was found that the Gaussian distribution spectrum and the angle of radiation have the greatest effect on the offices in the north of the city, which is due to the position of those buildings to the sun.