中文摘要：

人居环境的可持续发展需要同时解决建筑环境质量、建筑节能减排以及地域文化传承问题，运用被动式建筑设计技术创建适宜于地域气候与资源环境的超低能耗建筑是实现人居环境可持续发展的根本途径．本文从被动式设计原理出发，提炼了实现超低能耗建筑设计的关键技术问题，并综合运用建筑学、建筑气候学和建筑环境工学等交叉学科基本理论，通过理论分析、实验测试、方案设计与工程示范，系统建立了室内人体热舒适需求规律和室外典型气候的精细化表征方法，提出了低能耗建筑设计的气候分析技术与气候分区方法，被动式太阳能采暖与蓄热通风降温技术的热工设计计算方法，形成了被动式超低能耗建筑设计理论体系，并在西部地区得到推广和应用，为地域建筑的可持续发展提供了理论支撑和解决途径．

英文摘要：

This represents a multi-task topic, because it involves several challenges arising from indoor environmental quality, building energy efficiency, and vernacular culture inheritance. Although China is proud of its vast territory and resources, it has experienced pressure from a low per-capita share of resources owing to its large population. A vulnerable ecological environment has stimulated the increase and improvement of environmentally friendly and energy-saving buildings. It is essential to inherit the vernacular culture during development of a sustainable habitat environment, rather than modifying it by building new but identical or even wacky architecture. This is an effective and widely-applicable approach to solving the above challenges, through adopting passive technology in building ultra-low energy consumption buildings. As a flexible approach, passive technology has excellent applicability in meeting demands of the environment, energy resources, and vernacular culture. This paper introduces a systematic study of passive design for ultra-low energy buildings. According to existing theory of passive design, the following two key aspects in the application of passive technology were addressed in the work. First, the feasibility of using outdoor climatic resources was investigated, to determine their upper and lower limit conditions for indoor heating and cooling, respectively. The second aspect is the development and optimization of building design strategies with the use of passive technology, to effectively use the heating and cooling capacity of outdoor climate. The fundamental concept of passive and ultra-low energy building design was conducted from these two aspects. The critical and most valuable contribution of this research is the reduction of building energy consumption by decreasing the demand for artificial heating and cooling facilities. This can be achieved by effectively narrowing the difference between human thermal comfort and outdoor climate, and enlarging the climatic interval size that