Desert architecture addresses the extreme needs and problems of building in desert climates. The most characteristic problem is maintaining thermal comfort without excessive energy use. Various design and construction techniques can improve thermal comfort naturally, such as intensive mirror work on walls, furniture, and niches to reflect light and heat. As desert regions experience increased development, clarifying these low-energy methods is desirable for new building projects.

1. NAME:- GOHIL SIDDHARTH
CODE :- 0910
SUBMITTED :- ADITI JOSHI
SEM :- VI
DATE :- 4-7-2010
DESERT ARCHITECTURE

2. Desert architecture may be characterized as "architecture of the extremes," being basically similar
to "regular" architecture but differentiated from it by its obligation to address needs and problems
of an extreme character.
The problem of thermal comfort in buildings is perceived as one of the more characteristic and
difficult problems that desert architecture must address, even though this is not the only problem
nor necessarily the most difficult one. A typical way of addressing the thermal comfort issue in
buildings is by intensive use of expendable energies, but this, of course, is not an ideal approach: it
leads to waste of energy, it is expensive, and not everyone is comfortable with the thermal
conditions it creates (witness the number of people who do not like air-conditioning).
Various characteristics of design and construction enable the improvement of thermal comfort to
be integrated into a building without the use of artificial means and expendable energy. Now,
when it seems that even the drowsy Negev (the southern half of the Israeli land area, which
houses only about 7 percent of the country's population) is awakening to a building surge, it is
desirable to clarify these methods, and even to try to apply them in new building projects.
Desert architecture

4. PAINTING
KACHHI
ART
MIRROR WORK
EXTERIOR WORK

5. MIRROR WORK
ON WALL
MIRROR WORK
ON FURNITURE
NICHE
INTERIOR WORK

6. MIRROR WORK
ON WALL
MIRROR WORK
ON FURNITURE
NICHE
INTERIOR WORK