Passive Design guidelines for Hot and Dry climate: Study of Traditional House forms of Jaisalmer, India

摘要

This study is about finding guidelines for Designing the building and its spaces within it to benefit from natural light, ventilation and controlling the temperatures with the help ofbuilding design parameters, for Hot and Dry Climate. The elements of design for analysis would be Space, Void, Form and Light for spatial quality of building, which will be based on some Parameters of Calculation, (qualitative as well as quantitative).For the same case study of 4 house forms, each developed between the timeline of past 800 years, located in Jaisalmer city have been done. Each house is documented and analyzed which eventually leads towards forming Thumb Rule for further application.