Effect of Mass Formation on Indoor Thermal Performance in the Arab Region

einan, osama abo; Shahda, Merhan M.; Adil, Rash

doi:10.21608/pserj.2019.32530

Cited by 7 publications

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“…Homes with a central courtyard are spread throughout the Arab World, also the courtyard has an ancient history in ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamia civilizations. For more information about the inner courtyard it could be referred to [2,39,40,41,42,43,44], see figure 6. Similarly, the courtyard contains water bodies with fountains that move the surface of the water, in order not to act as a reflective surface for sunlight.…”

Section: The Compact Urban Fabricmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traditional Environmental Treatments in Arab Architecture: As a Guide to Contemporary Architecture

Shahda

Noseir

2021

Port-Said Engineering Research Journal

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The Arab Region embraces a diverse and substantial architectural heritage, with distinctive vocabularies and treatments, that has been as a source of inspiration for architects. However, the contemporary Arab architectural production is not at the desired level. So, the study questions the reasons for the success of Traditional Architecture in providing environmental Comfort and achieving human requirements. Besides, the study explores literature reviews of contemporary trends of studies that are concerned with employing the foundations and principles of Traditional Architecture. Therefore, this study firstly, presents a theoretical background of environmental comfort then extracts the foundations and standards of Traditional Architecture in the Arab Region, with the aim of deducing a Conceptual Framework of Traditional Architecture as a guide to Contemporary Architecture and finally a literature review of recent trends in environmental architectural studies based on traditional strategies. The results of this part show that the studies are divided into three approaches: 1) Philosophical studies that attempt to analyze Traditional Architecture to reach success criteria for traditional architecture. 2) Innovative strategies dealing with modern proposals to achieve environmental comfort based on the principles of sustainable traditional architecture. 3) Studies that focus on analyzing and developing one of the elements that distinguish Traditional Architecture. As a final point, the study presents a Systematic Framework to employ all the standards of traditional architecture and exploiting all the results of contemporary studies to serve as a guide for Contemporary Architecture.

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Section: The Compact Urban Fabricmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traditional Environmental Treatments in Arab Architecture: As a Guide to Contemporary Architecture

Shahda

Noseir

2021

Port-Said Engineering Research Journal

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“…Accordingly, architects and engineers should explore strategies to minimize the amount of fossil fuels used in building design for heating and cooling [6]. Many solutions for improving thermal comfort have already been implemented, including shading, courtyards, green roofs, natural ventilation, mass creation, and thermal energy storage (TES) [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14].…”

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The Strategy of Using PCMs in Building Sector Applications

Ismail

Megahed

Eltarabily

2022

Port-Said Engineering Research Journal

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With the recent large increase in the building sector's energy use to provide thermal comfort to consumers, the restrictions of climate change, and the scarcity of energy supplies, there has been a need to develop ways to reduce energy consumption. The use of phase change materials (PCMs) as a thermal energy storage (TES) system has attracted a lot of attention as a technique to improve thermal performance, conserve energy, and improve occupant comfort. When storing energy via phase change, the key advantage in terms of building materials is the higher energy density, which indicates that more energy can be stored in a constant volume. This study focuses on the vital role of PCMs in building applications by presenting the different classifications of PCMs as well as their integration techniques, systems, and benefits for building applications. Different case studies for full scale buildings are presented. A design strategy is concluded for integrating PCMs in buildings.

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