Simple and Efficient House for Rural and Desert Areas
Abstract
This paper contains the discussion of providing economic houses for arid and desert areas, especially Middle East. It provides several analyses of existing desert houses and provides suggestion for efficiency purposes.
The second section is a literature review on how to build an economic house. The suggestion is general and the basic of economic architectural considerations. The next part explains the research method we are using within this paper. Then, we display a modern design of desert houses and shortly comment on the design. We also incorporated the discussion of more traditional houses in desert areas which are called the Courtyard house. In the final section, we conclude the previous discussions and provide several suggestions to increase efficiency.
Building houses are no longer a primary need. In the 21th century, they have developed into an art of self-expression and definition. The barriers of traditional housing have been replaced by creativity and cultural subjectivity. But despite the increasing development, economic consideration was never left behind.
However, the term ‘economic’ does not really define as ‘small’ anymore, but rather ‘efficient’. Designs that incorporate energy efficient considerations are increasing especially in rural and arid areas. We discover that desert areas contain many possibilities of increased house efficiency, but common desert design has seemed to neglect them. There are several methods of producing and preserving independent energy for daily requirements that we suggest.
