Mosque design strategy for energy and water saving

Bangun Indrakusumo Radityo Harsritanto,Aditya Rio Prabowo,Favian Dewanta,Satrio Nugroho

doi:10.1515/eng-2021-0070

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Abstract The built environment plays an essential role as a climate change agent. Natural resource exploitation, energy consumptions, and waste management need to be built for more environment-friendly. The Mosque is a religious building built in every space on earth since a quarter of the world population is Muslim. This situation brought an urgency for making Mosques more sustainable and friendly to the natural environment. Carrying these facts, this study aimed to suggest a design strategy for making a sustainable mosque. Through a collaboration of passive design strategy, present technologies work of literature, and a study case, this study shortlisted primary design strategies in (1) building layouts, (2) lighting strategy, (3) HVAC strategy, (4) water conservation strategy, and (5) IT strategy. By keeping these major design strategies, Mosques can be made more environmentally sustainable. Several design recommendations are suggested in each major design strategy that may bring help for making sustainable Mosque on every space on this earth.

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Mosque was derived from the Arabic term of “masjid”or “space to perform sujud” that related to meaning as Architecture Department, Engineering Faculty, UniversitasDiponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia, e-mail: bangunirh@arsitektur. undip.ac.idSatrio Nugroho: Architecture Department, Engineering Faculty, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, IndonesiaFavian Dewanta: School of Electrical Engineering, TelkomUniversity, Bandung, IndonesiaAditya Rio Prabowo: Mechanical Departement, Engineering Faculty, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia submission space [1]
Some literature researches of sustainable environment and building codes from Indonesia GBCI, America Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), England BREEAM, Malaysian GBI, and Singapore Green Mark were quickly resumed on the main space of the mosque and currently developing information technologies
The four strategies are closely related to each other, such as the lighting and HVAC installation is depending on the building layouts; or the water recycle in ablution can be functioned as a water cooler for the HVAC shall be linked with number 5 – Information Technology (IT)

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Mosque was derived from the Arabic term of “masjid”or “space to perform sujud” that related to meaning as Architecture Department, Engineering Faculty, UniversitasDiponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia, e-mail: bangunirh@arsitektur. undip.ac.idSatrio Nugroho: Architecture Department, Engineering Faculty, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, IndonesiaFavian Dewanta: School of Electrical Engineering, TelkomUniversity, Bandung, IndonesiaAditya Rio Prabowo: Mechanical Departement, Engineering Faculty, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia submission space [1]. “space to perform sujud” that related to meaning as Architecture Department, Engineering Faculty, Universitas. Satrio Nugroho: Architecture Department, Engineering Faculty, Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, Indonesia. Aditya Rio Prabowo: Mechanical Departement, Engineering Faculty, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia submission space [1]. The Mosque that was built by the Prophet Mohammed SAW first on Madina was delivered as a model of environmentally sustainable practices [5]. The Nabawi (prophet building) Mosque design and technology probably did not suit modern and next-generation. The principles of specific sustainable strategies can be adopted as a guideline and actuated on the planning and designing of the Mosques. The philosophy of the first Mosque built by the prophet, a guideline regarding space, and form design with the Islamic principles shall be followed [6]

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