View article

Cooling buildings in urban areas with hot-arid climate put huge loads on the energy system. There is an increasing trend in urban energy studies to recognize the urban design variables and parameters associated with the energy performance of buildings. In this work, a novel approach is introduced to investigate the impacts of urban morphology on cooling load reduction and enhancing ventilation potential by studying a high-rise building (target building), surrounded by different urban configurations, during six warm months of the year in Tehran at four major sections including: (1) generating 1600 urban case studies considering three parameters (Urban Density, Urban Building Form, and Urban Pattern) and modelling the urban morphology of Tehran based on a technique namely “Building Modular Cells”, (2) validation study of CFD simulation of the wind flow around buildings, (3) calculating the average cooling …