Achieving Thermal Comfort by Simulating the Ecosystems of the Desert Environment

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Egypt has more than 95% of desert land, with a fluctuating climate and varying characteristics. The desert has its unique features that forced mankind to create architectural and urban patterns to adapt to the surrounding environment by building cities and developing indoor spaces, in order to protect themselves from extreme climatic conditions. Advanced technology in construction aided with many difficulties that face designers connecting internal spaces with the external environment, through providing a harmonious system that achieves thermal comfort and prevents the consumption of energy resulting from the use of conventional methods of cooling and heating, achieving permanent control over the amount of energy flowing under climate change throughout the year. The impact of our current lifestyles in the desert environment leads us to a tragic state of depletion of energy, and desert environment has become more vulnerable to pollution and damage, where the need to seek solutions should be inspired by nature itself. “Ecological simulation” is the major key to find solutions for design problems through the observation of nature, using biological research and information available on the ecosystems and organisms in the desert environment. Nature simulation is a process that begins with a design problem and ends with solutions for that problem through the designer.