Throughout history, living things have needed different types of energy to survive. While humanity needs the natural and built environment to provide vital comfort, they have also damaged their natural environment in order to increase comfort.

Studies for modern architectural design criteria have gradually started to distance individuals and societies from the natural environment and squeezed them into produced energy types and manufactured lifestyles. However, in periods and regions when artificial energy resources were not sufficient, local architectural and historical architectural methods were used to obtain vital energy to provide shelter, heating, food, and communication. In this context, design methods were evaluated for indoor lighting with the method of design of openings in the design, for heating in cold areas or cooling in hot areas with the micro-climate method, and for removing polluted air inside the space. For this, sun, wind, and underground-surface waters are used effectively.

While humanity needs the natural and built environment to provide vital comfort, they have also damaged their natural environment in order to increase comfort.

Today's advanced technologies cause serious damage to nature in order to increase the quality of life. Therefore, new searches have begun. On the other hand, new searches have brought up the issue of reviewing the methods of historical buildings and local structures in the period when the energy was insufficient. For this, first of all, different climate types in different parts of the world are investigated and the natural environments created by these climate types are investigated. In order to understand the natural structure in different parts of the world, two scientists named Köppen and Geiger carried out studies to determine different climate types with the help of endemic plants in the 1900s and gathered climates under 5 main headings[1].

In the study, our students made analyses to compare the analyzes of the structures built with modern and local architectural methods in different climatic regions according to the Köppen - Geiger climate classifications of the world. By modeling the buildings they chose in Skethup, they made indoor and outdoor daylight analyses using Enerji3D and SketchUp Sun Path programs, and wind analyses using the Wind Path program. The works were voiced by them and prepared for youtube.

Prof. Dr. Filiz BAL KOÇYİĞİT