Abstract
Climatic design aims to maximize the benefits of nature, and the climate in particular, to design the built environment with minimum use of mechanical heating or cooling. The idea of climatic design has been with us for a long time. Today, Passive Climatic Design has become the main approach to achieve sustainable architecture. Many authors, researchers and institutes pay great attention towards the importance of passive climatic design. This paper aims to discover the theoretical and experimental studies that have demonstrated the usefulness of passive climatic design techniques in context with cooling of buildings in hot regions to establish climatic design guidelines that can be applied in Tripoli-Libya. To achieve the aim, a deductive approach has been selected where theoretical strategies are first confirmed from the existing literature which will be investigated by using the focus group method in the case study as well as sampling the internal temperature inside selected case studies to examine the thermal comfort in both vernacular and contemporary housing.