Sustainable architecture compatible with renewable energy principles: A mosque building as a case study

Abstract

The current investigation considers sustainable energy utilization in architecture as novel via future visions for such concept development of. Simulations of ANSYS as software were utilized for a real design of mosque situated in the north of Iraq as study case. Thus, the mosque buildings selection in city of Sulaimaniyah in Iraq as model of application for the clean energy technologies utilize through selecting the building internal space and tests conducting utilizing energy as solar and reviewing its influence on energy providing required via the building and minimizing the waste in consumption of electrical energy which relies on resources as fossil.

The current investigation assuming that the novel constructed foundations of mosque can be enclosed with pipes grid equally distributed through the design. Such pipes are able to be filled in winter with hot water as a replacement for utilizing heaters that consume and cost a large electricity amount. Besides, it displays the achievability of utilizing green energy as unit of heating, particularly if it can cover the installation capital cost in only one year due to the high bills of electricity in Iraq and the capability to preserve energy as solar.