The specific look to environmental design and sustainability factors in vernacular residential architecture of Shoushtar, Iran

Environmental design is defined as the process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, buildings and it can refer to designing due to ecological and sustainability issues.According to this definition, it could be said that the first traceable concepts of environmental design is visible in some ancient architectures, which among them Persian architecture has always been well-known because of its solutions for climatic issues and moving toward a sustainable architecture. (Iran is one of the unique countries which have the widest variety of climates, hence architectural solutions differ from one region to another in this country). In this paper, vernacular residential architecture of Shoushtar city, which is one of the oldest in Iran, is studied according to its caring about climatic factors and the amount of success it has had in creating sustainable architecture (in harmony with surrounding environment).