Designing Tourist Complexes Based on the Ecosystem of Coral Islands

Abstract

Development of tourist beaches requires the construction of new buildings, which leads to the highest amounts of energy consumption, waste production,  and environmental pollution. Therefore, it is essential to provide proper solutions to revise consumption patterns and reduce contamination. This paper proposes an optimum pattern for the design of public and residential buildings, focusing on reducing pollution and energy consumption, taking into account the ecosystem of the coral Hendorabi island and its environmental and climatic parameters. Simulated and field observations were used to determine the relationship between the environment and buildings through energy and bioclimatic analyses. With the help of environmental analysis in Design Builder software, the energy demand in the interior and exterior of the building was analyzed. The results show that a large part of the required energy could be provided by passive methods through environmental interaction. Moreover, through hybrid vertical and horizontal shades, continuous porches, ventilated shields on windows, lightweight materials, atriums, homogeneous polymer isolators, and rotating buildings towards coastal winds, the energy production expenses and required cooling load can be decreased by up to 75 kW-h/m2 every year. In the simulated model, 126 tons of greenhouse gas emissions were indirectly reduced by applying the proposed strategies.