Wind Catcher: An attractive and charming feature of Yazd city Mahnaz mahmuodi(MS)

Yazd as a city and its traditional texture has characteristics that have made them distinct from other in Iran. What have brought about this attractiveness of Yazd feature are its immune ably varieties of wind catchers. These wind catchers come in to views with their forms as incorporated in Yazd urban feature. Thus, this paper deals with a typological study on them. The research has as its support Field approaches. Layouts (¬plans) that are included in the paper have been introduced to interested readers for the first time. The research method is descriptive analytical and follow this trend: observation, comparison, analysis and inference. Typological study of formed wind catchers as checked in this paper has been made by examining different ways in which they were built on tops of houses in Yazd and categorized based on directions, plans, sections, and which winds blow.