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Esfahan Cemetery Prayer Room

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 Innovation and benefits of the project
• Architecture
Porous form of outer shell creates a space with light and shade in the inner jewel that at the same time it also provides the user view to the outside. There are wooden gates that open with the hinge axis and generate wider visibility to the outside for the audience. Materials in used in the building make shell coordinate with the climate and the environment. The gap in the front and back view of the building that has continued into the space, with guided by the light of day and night to the inside, without any clear singe denote the direction of Qibla and the porch surrounding the building between bricked shell and glass, facilitate the functional movement of around the building.

• Technical
Other view includes a brick shall that made from fireproof brick with low heat transfer coefficient and a large part of the inner view consists of a double shell glass. Porous in outer aperture shell sometimes causing air flow in the inner space and color of shell is cause the reflection of thermal radiation of the sun .And back porch outside the brick shell acts as a thermal insulator. One layer brick shell is acts like a thermal insulation and controls a significant amount of heat during warm seasons. Shell in front of the louver and porch between the two shells, in the summer, cause that the heat inside the building become about 10 ° C cooler than the outer space and it has a great impact on energy savings.

• Infrastructure
The Infrastructure of building is steel frame type and to hold its side burden, normal bending frame is considered in both directions.

• Mechanical and electrical installations
Mechanical installation of this project for ventilation is spring special construction; however, the water cooler is used to provide the project required cooling.

Mosque Data

Architect

Fotovvat Architecture Atellier

Type

Jumaa

Country

United Kingdom

Owner/Founder

Year

2011

Area

350 sqm

Drawings

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