Sustainable architecture is one of the up to date issues of architecture and has a direct effect on the global policy making. Iranian traditional architecture, because of huge geographical extent and its old age as human settlement, is a valuable resource of study in this field. Rural, environment and traditional houses of Iran contains important and valuable matters and points that must be considered. Stepped villages like Palangan in Kurdistan, are patterns, compatible with mountainous climate, full of thoughts. Materials and Methods: For instance economizing energy, native materials, coordination with topography and earth tissue, residential spaces work full of coordination with environment and ecosystem are examples of their characteristics. The aim of this research is to study the problems related to sustainability in difficult condition, construction and materials, energy and its economization in rural architecture. And in the case study, in stepped village of Palangan as prominent historical rural housing, is to consider the feedback of these rural settlements to various energy sustainability factors in library study method and field studies of these villages’ dominant characteristics. Results and Conclusions: The final step is to categorize the positive points of rural stair houses in terms of energy sustainability and architecture of the village are the matters that have been discussed in the following parts of this paper.
