ISSN 2455-5045, ISI Impact Factor: 0.763

VOLUME 02 NO. 01 JANUARY 2015:

Title:         Energy Efficient Architectural Design Strategies in Moorish Mosque, Kapoorthala, Punjab
Authors:       Shruti H. Kapur, Vikas Kumar Nirmal
Abstract:     Bioclimatic architecture, it means the architecture that has a connection to nature. The word bio climatic deals with climate and living organism. The keystone of energy conservation is architecture. Building, as they are designed and used today, contributes to serious environmental problems because of excessive consumption of energy and other natural resources. More decisively, it can also be considered as a tool to raising people’s awareness of environmental protection or in other words a reaction to mother nature, which always cohabits and appreciates manhood. Presently the resources are not adequate enough to fulfill human needs in future. Sustainability is facing dual crisis due to global warming and depletion of fossil fuels. In
today’s world the major consumption of energy is in building sector. Climate had the major impact on the performance of the traditional building architecture and its energy consumption in hot dry area of Kapurthala. Passive cooling, ventilation and heating were few techniques used in the past and more harmonious, with the Mother Nature. Materials used for the historical buildings in the past were energy efficient. The perspective of this paper is applicability of passive and low energy cooling technologies and also enlighten the processes by which building and entire habitat were designed to respond to nature, with climate as the basic parameter of planning Moorish Mosque. Today’s contemporary world requires such techniques and these can act as a source of inspiration for sustainable development in futuristic evolution. In this paper, the author has examined various passive cooling techniques and locally available resources used in Moorish Mosque in North Indian climate, buildings and systems analysis, to find out passive and low energy cooling technologies potential.

Keywords:   bioclimatic architecture, passive cooling, energy, material, courtyards, environment
Pages:          17-19

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