The Effect of Orientation on Cooling Load in Hot Dry Climate Regions; Diyarbakır Şilbe Mass Housing Example

ABSTRACT The share of the housing sector in the world's total energy consumption has reached 20%. In recent years, the construction sector has turned its face to an environmentally friendly design. This method, also known as energy efficient design, has become widely used today in the world. Which has a wide network in the housing sector in Turkey and many shares the annual energy consumption of mass housing settlement houses produce every year is very high. Therefore, it is thought that more energy efficiency will be provided by using energy efficient building design methods in residential units such as Mass Housing rather than single buildings. In this context Şilbe I. Stage Mass Housing settlement area located in the city of Diyarbakır was chosen as the study area. 100 m2 housing plans, which offer different orientation alternatives among the housing typologies, were selected. Within the scope of the study, Design Builder Energy Simulation Program was used to analyze the energy loads. This study has been carried out due to the limited number of studies emphasizing the optimal building orientation of the buildings relative to each other after the pre-design energy costs are calculated for each climate zone through simulation programs, especially in the production of social housing unit in Turkey.