Impact of building forms on thermal performance and thermal comfort conditions in religious buildings in hot climates: a case study in Sharjah city

Mushtaha, Emad; helmy, omar

doi:10.1080/14786451.2015.1127234

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“…The study revealed that there is a direct impact of the architectural style on the thermal performance of mosques. Mushtaha and Helmy (2016) conducted an analytical examination to assess the impact of passive parameters, which are related to the thermal performance and indoor thermal comfort of mosques; in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The assessed passive parameters included thermal insulation, shading devices and natural ventilation.…”

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“…The functional and environmental aspects of mosques are performance elements that provide a well-maintained contemporary space of worship (Asfour, 2016). Operational conditions of thermal (Alajmi, 2010;Asfour, 2009;Mushtaha and Helmy, 2016), acoustical (Eldien and Al Qahtani, 2012;Ismail, 2013;Kavraz, 2014;Karaman and Güzel, 2017), and illumination (Hassan and Arab, 2013;Belakeha et al, 2016;El-Darwish and El-Gendy, 2016) performance elements in mosques, must be provided and maintained to serve a satisfactory performance for its users. It is necessary to optimize the worship space design and utilization for efficiency, achieving sustainability principles, within a social and cultural context of service that is required in mosques.…”

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Post Occupancy Evaluation of the Built Environment: A Case Study of Mosque Facilities

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Mosques are religious and cultural facilities that are used as a place of worship, social gatherings, and religious events by Islamic communities. The built environment in these facilities should meet certain technical, functional, and behavioral requirements for worshipers. Mosques could endure critical defects and inadequate performance, with gaps in knowledge, of appraisal tools for their overall performance assessment. Therefore, this research was motivated by the need to identify and purpose an exemplary systematic process upon the conduct of post-occupancy evaluation, owing to the fundamental need for satisfactory conditions that need to be met by mosque facilities. Thus, this paper presents an exemplary post-occupancy evaluation of mosque facilities in Saudi Arabia; as a religious built environment. A triangulation approach of data collection and assessment methods were followed and discussed in this research. A case study mosque was selected, following a review of literature. Interviews and walkthrough inspection identified 34 performance elements. Users’ satisfaction survey data were collected and analyzed. Recommendations were proposed towards improving performance of the case study mosque as a religious built environment that demands satisfactory occupancy conditions. The findings indicated that worshipers were strongly satisfied with the conditions of the built environment in the case study facility; including acoustical comfort, spirituality, and aesthetic performance elements. This paper expands the boundaries of knowledge in terms of identification of mosques’ performance elements

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“…Additionally, many historical khans (e.g., Khan Indians, Khan Kasbah, Khan Aldalalin, and Khan At-tarin [34]). Furthermore, what attracts the attention of the beholder to this ancient city is the existence of many Islamic historical mosques, e.g., the Great Mosque and the Mosque of Uthman ibn Affan [35,36] (Figure 2a-d its extensive trade and remarkable wealth. The flourishing trade was based on the activities of the Persian merchant community who settled there [20].…”

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Cultural Heritage Management Using Remote Sensing Data and GIS Techniques around the Archaeological Area of Ancient Jeddah in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia

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Historic Jeddah is located on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. Historic Jeddah was designated as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2014. The new urban development for the city of Jeddah has resulted in different spatial patterns. The southern part of Jeddah city falls within the moderate zone, because this area is well developed in regard to infrastructure with rainstorm and sewage networks. The middle area of the city falls within high vulnerability risk due to its high population, shallow water depth, flat slopes, and various incomplete network services (i.e., leakage from septic tanks and water pipes). The western and northwestern parts of the city are subject to very high pollution risk, due to the highly permeable area with coralline formation, very shallow water depth, and depressions. Unfortunately, historic Jeddah has been affected by the unplanned development and shallow water depth. Most of the construction and decoration of the ancient buildings are suffering from deterioration. The paper aims to detect the environmental changes, assessing the geo-environmental status, and creating some of the innovative solutions while using the integration between remote sensing and GIS techniques. The combination of SRTM, Corona 1966, Spot 1986, Landsat 1987, Orbview 2003, and Sentinel2A 2017 data will help in monitoring the changes around the study area. The Bands combination and the spatial statistical analysis are considered to be the most effective methods in the examination of the new built-up indices. GIS techniques and some models would be suggested as solutions to protect the archaeological area, according to UNESCO recommendations.

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“…However, below-ground spaces are not suitable for every application. Mushtaha and Helmy (2016) studied the effect of building form on thermal conditions in the Gulf city of Sharjah and suggested that it could reduce energy consumption by 10%. Fasi and Budaiwi (2015) was concerned with the contribution windows made to visual comfort and unsurprisingly recommended low energy types.…”

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A Review of Thermal Design for Buildings in Hot Climates

Kharrufa¹,

Noori²

2022

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Most of the developed world currently lives above the tropic of Cancer in cold climate regions. It follows that most of the top architectural firms are from the same countries, and most of their work is based on that experience. Experience that does not travel well to hotter countries. This paper is mainly concerned with the climates of the Middle East region, which are hot in summer and have mild or cold winters, and where the humidity ranges from dry to humid. It is a review of the factors, designs, and solutions that designers sometimes ignore, undervalue, or on the other hand, put too much weight on when working in such climates. An overview of thermal solutions is conducted, and a critique and suitability of each one for hotter climates are offered. Some of the solutions, which are thought to be helpful, have little benefit, especially traditional ones, which are not up to present-day standards and lifestyles. Others, such as courtyards, do more harm than good. A couple of case studies to evaluate houses with and without thermal measures showed improvements of 23-48%. The paper will evaluate architectural, cooling, and building design solutions according to suitability in dry and medium humidity, warm and hot countries.

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Impact of building forms on thermal performance and thermal comfort conditions in religious buildings in hot climates: a case study in Sharjah city

Cited by 40 publications

References 11 publications

Post Occupancy Evaluation of the Built Environment: A Case Study of Mosque Facilities

Post Occupancy Evaluation of the Built Environment: A Case Study of Mosque Facilities

Cultural Heritage Management Using Remote Sensing Data and GIS Techniques around the Archaeological Area of Ancient Jeddah in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia

A Review of Thermal Design for Buildings in Hot Climates

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