Very interesting article, thanks for posting. I love when form meets function, turning it into art, it seems to me, those buildings in Iran are stunning, knowing what the seemingly ornamental towers are all about.

It occurs to me another factor of the effectivity of any scheme implemented would be appropriate to the kinds of techniques used by aerospace designers, to optimise airflows through airborne apparatus, namely 3D airflow modelling, to engineer internal temperatures, there would be optimal internal / external dimensions for all of the features, with optimal gradients between large and small apertures, an accumlative chilling effect could be achieved by continuous airflow of hot air, thermodynamically cooling the air entering the living spaces in a building, in a way that the higher the airflow, the more effective the chilling effect.

I am guessing something like this will already have been achieved by trial and error on these buildings, developed maybe over thousands of years.

Awesome :)