LoginThe Mosque of Cordoba is the best example of the Islamic religious buildings that survived in Spain. Its typology corresponds to a mosque of a large scale with the common plan of the early Muslim art. This model became an architectural reference for the mosques of Western Islam. The paper presents the results of measurements undertaken to assess the environmental performance of this building.
Natural cooling in Hispano-Moslem religious architecture: the case study of the Mosque of Cordoba.
Year:
1999
Bibliographic info:
in: PLEA '99 "Sustaining the Future - Energy, Ecology, Architecture", proceedings of a conference held Brisbane, Australia, September 22-24, 1999, edited by Steven V Szokolay