This study aims to investigate the daylight performance of Colonial Mosques in Malaysia. The first objective this is identify passive daylighting strategies from colonial mosques. second evaluate research methodology consisted table research, field observation, and analysis simulation prayer hall Mosques, using Sefaira software. results have shown that was affected by building orientation, shad...

This paper discusses a discrete-event simulation model of an adversary social network using Micro Saint Simulation software. The purpose is for knowledge discovery from the many interactions and relationships among and between the adversary players in the Iraqi conflicts, especially on the attack targets, weapons used, and the motives of attack. The model developed to solve the problem is an Ad...

In the architecture of the mosque, the light entering into the dome is a functional necessity and due to the structure, the weight of the dome and its one or more shells has caused limitations in any kind of skylights to be encumbered. The research main question is that due to the mechanism of the dome parts, how the creation and the entering of skylights to the dome were done. The research met...

In the late nineteenth century Chinese residents of Dihua (Urumqi), the desert capital of China’s Xinjiang Province, referred to the large, fortified gateway which separated the walled Chinese settlement from the walled Muslim settlement as the “gate which divides heaven from earth.” In so distancing themselves from their near neighbors, with whom they were inextricably linked through the econo...

Mosques are external load dominated buildings that characterized by their intermittent and varying occupancy schedules. Most mosques employ some form of mechanical heating/cooling system in order to maintain suitable thermal comfort conditions for the users during prayer times. Due unique spatial characteristics patterns mosques, these systems often found be energy-intensive which impacts overa...