The residences that Muslims built in the Iberian Peninsula respond to a similar architectural type. They are commonly distributed around a central elongated courtyard, in whose north wing a tower is normally attached. The spatial sequence established between the tower and the patio improves the environmental conditions of the complex through the combination of some specific cooling strategies. This article includes a typological analysis of this configuration, a study of its environmental aspects, as well as the computer simulations undertaken to evaluate the hypothesis. This paper is part of a PhD project entitled Environmental Aspects of Hispano-Islamic Architecture, which the author is currently carrying out at the AA. Graduate School in London under the supervision of the professor Simos Yannas.
Environmental performance of the Sequence Patio-Portico-Tower in Hispano-Moslem architecture.
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Year:
2000
Bibliographic info:
Architecture, City, Environment: Proceedings of PLEA 2000, James & James (Science Publishers) Ltd, London, UK, 2000, ISBN 1 902916 16 6, proceedings of the Passive and Low Energy Architecture conference, held Cambridge, UK, July 2000, pp 229-232.