Vernacular buildings are known for their localized passive settings to provide comfortable indoor environment without air conditioning systems. One alternative is the consistent ground temperature over the year that earth-sheltered envelopes take the benefit; however, ensuring annual indoor comfort might be challenging. Thus, this research monitors the indoor thermal indicators of 22 earth-sheltered buildings in Meymand, Iran with a warm-dry climate. Furthermore, the observations are used to validate the simulation results through two outdoor and indoor environmental parameters, air temperature and relative humidity during the hottest period of the year. Findings indicated that the main thermal comfort differences among case studies were mainly due to their architectural layouts where the associated variables including length, width, height, orientation, window-to-wall ratio, and shading depth were optimized through a linkage between Ladybug-tools and Genetic Algorithm (GA) concerning adaptive thermal comfort model definition and could enhance the annual thermal comfort by 31%.

乡土建筑以其局部被动设置而闻名，无需空调系统即可提供舒适的室内环境。一种替代方案是全年地面温度保持一致，从而使受土保护的围护结构受益；然而，确保年度室内舒适度可能具有挑战性。因此，本研究监测了位于温暖干燥气候的伊朗迈满德的 22 座土质建筑的室内热指标。此外，通过一年中最热时期的气温和相对湿度这两个室外和室内环境参数，观测结果用于验证模拟结果。调查结果表明，案例研究之间的主要热舒适差异主要是由于它们的建筑布局，其中相关变量包括长度、宽度、高度、