Abstract
As a result of repetitive terroristic attacks in Rafah city, the Egyptian government had to evacuate Rafah to eradicate terrorism. It is planned to build New Rafah city at a distance from the borders.
So if we are going to build a new settlement why not to build it right?
The aim of this research is to build new Rafah city convenient to their occupants by fulfilling both psychological and physical comfort.
This paper demonstrates a number of climatic and energy characteristics of building in the desert of the hot arid region. It presents proposed techniques for using vertical solar Photovoltaic Panels (PV) that installed on building facades. Designer can find out suitability for putting PVs installation in the façade surfaces of buildings using Google Earth imagery and ArcGIS software for spatial and attribute data of buildings in this defined urban study area. The approach entails modeling the solar irradiance characteristics of the site by fitting the probability distributions of the solar irradiance data measured during the day. Thereafter; it could be estimated the solar radiations factor according to analysis of different designs of PV modules. The module with the highest average factor is identified as the best suited module for the given site.