3th WCSET-2014 at Nepal
Civil Engineering / Environmental / Architecture / Planning Session:
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:
256-258