Abstract

The issue of energy in our country has not received considerable attention for years, however, in recent years, designers and planners sought to focus on the subject of the optimization of energy consumption in one of the major centers of energy consumption, that is building, due to the high cost of energy consumption and the concern about the depletion of these energy resources and the pollution arising from consuming these fuels. Meanwhile, tall buildings consume a large portion of non-renewable energy resources. Due to the construction of high-rise buildings, growing urban population, and limited proper land, designers should seek to reduce its negative environmental effects instead of rejecting it. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to sustainable architectural strategies in the process of designing and the exploitation stage of these buildings because of the accumulation of users at a limited level the significant use of energy resources in tall buildings. This paper attempts to analyze the effective elements in sustainable architecture in the design of high-rise buildings in Tabriz to reduce energy consumption. This study is of quantitative nature and data was collected using archive or library study. The findings of this research highlight that observing the effective components of sustainable architecture in the design of towering buildings contributes to saving energy consumption for space heating by 66%, and saving energy consumption for space cooling by 37.5 %.