The Effect of Garden Pit on the Surface and Peripheral Temperature and Energy Consumption in Arid and Hot Climate

The building is enumerated amongst the factors having a great deal of effect on the environment change; it accounts for 41% of energy consumption in Iran. Thus, in order to acquire a part of applied knowledge and also to respond to the essential environmental needs of the human beings, the present article tries analyzing the effect of garden pit in the traditional climate of the hot and arid climates so that the values of the past architecture can be continued and simultaneously elaborate the extent to which it is useful. The present study has been conducted based on a quantitative-qualitative and descriptive-analytical method. Using Thermovision (thermal camera), model DT-982, it was concluded that the traditional building of Khajeh Khidr in Yazd features such conditions as surface temperatures up to 10°C for its possession of the garden pit; based on the analysis of findings and simulation in Design Builder Program, two buildings one with garden pit and the other without garden pit, it was proved that energy consumption can be reduced up to 14% when using electricity for lighting, cooling, and heating by means of garden pit.