Over 50% of the total energy consumed by buildings in a hot and dry climate goes toward cooling regime during harsh months. Non-residential buildings, especially houses worship, need tremendous amount to create comfortable environment for worshipers. Today, mosques are regarded as energy-hungry whereas past, they were designed according sustainable vernacular architecture. This study was aimed ...

this paper examines the utility of the air pollution model (tapm) in simulating meteorology and dispersion of pm10 and wind data in order to assess the impacts of wind variability function on urban heat island for the day of 25, november, 2012 in karaj city that experienced severe degradation in air quality. drawing, skew-t diagrams, maps of surface pressure (500hp), omega (850hp) and atmospher...

passing trough industrial revolution to achieve postmodern era, development of production and distribution facilities, development of communications, and economic and development of society structural changes and lack of accountability of functional industrial design to the human psychological needs, other products based on the particular response to the needs of a limited component design, suc...