There are hardly any shades, in a hot country that shades are common, to protect the windows. • There are no special elements to achieve passive cooling or heating. • All facades look the same,
it could be our start point to discuss this subject.
Of course shading is paramount to protect the indoor environment from excessive solar radiation, and shading design is an essential part of any building project. There are many types of shading devices (See for example https://www.beepindia.org/technologies-n-tools/emsys/) , but some architects don't like to use them.
Note that in temperate and hot climates, it is much cheaper to install the required shading to avoid solar heat entering the building than to buy and install a cooling system to pump that heat out of the building!
On this topic there's a highly recommended book titled "Intelligent Design using Solar-Climatic Vision"
see the link below:
http://solarchvision.com/?page_id=4303
As a more contemporary solution have a look at the kinetic facade systems and their optimisation in terms of minimising excessive solar gains whilst providing adequate light levels for the functional performance of the space in question. Good useful references can be found in my paper, albeit quite specific in its approach. A Shape Grammar Approach To Climatically Adaptable Facade Systems With Real Time Performance Evaluation
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