Ice Houses of Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ice Houses of Iran write by Hemming Jorgensen. This book was released on 2012. Ice Houses of Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The traditional Persian ice houses were built at villages on the perimeter of the large deserts on the Central Plateau. Their cone-shaped domes, up to 20 meters high, consisted of mud and mud bricks from the excavation of the deep ice pits protected by the domes. The ice houses served as reservoirs that stored blocks of ice in the winter for further use in the summer. The ice was either hauled in from nearby mountains or produced in open basins at the ice house site. Such local ice production plants were typically supplied with fresh water from qanats, the ingenious water supply tunnels, that brought water for human settlements and irrigation from the distant mountains. The ice houses, whose origin is believed to go back more than 2000 years, gradually became obsolete with the advent of electricity and the introduction of the refrigerators to the households. Because they were made of perishable materials, most of the ice houses have disappeared and the rest are facing a grim future. In this book, Dr. Jorgensen, has made a remarkable effort in cataloguing still remaining ice houses and in the process has found other ice houses that are shaped differently. He has developed a typology, described and analyzed the layouts, shapes, dimensions, construction methods, materials, reinforcements, and decorations. He has also studied the operations and origins, and analyzed the preservation aspects. This book describes the first ever comprehensive study of the ice houses of Iran.
Ice-Houses
Ice-Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ice-Houses write by Alireza Dehghani-Sanij. This book was released on 2021-05-06. Ice-Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ice-Houses: Energy, Architecture and Sustainability presents new and novel technologies and approaches surrounding daily and seasonal ice storage, along with discussions on passive cooling and natural technologies using different methods, including heat pumps. The book covers different aspects of ice-houses and cold energy production, storage and utilization. By addressing various issues connected to the technology and structure of traditional ice-houses and natural and artificial ice making, this refences looks at new technological approaches for the reduction of electrical energy consumption in buildings. Users will find this to be a comprehensive overview of ice house storage that includes worked examples and global case studies. It is an essential resource for researchers and engineers looking to advance their understanding of this method of thermal storage. Includes worked examples which calculate and determine the amounts of different parameters to help better understand the problem-solving process Provides a comprehensive literature review on the history and architecture of ice-houses, along with different ice production and storage methods Contains recent developments related to cold energy production and storage through ice making to reduce electricity demand
Ice Houses of Iran
Ice Houses of Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ice Houses of Iran write by Arne Hemming Jørgensen. This book was released on 2010. Ice Houses of Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Iranian Vernacular Ice-Houses
Iranian Vernacular Ice-Houses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iranian Vernacular Ice-Houses write by Fatemeh Tehrani. This book was released on 2021-07-14. Iranian Vernacular Ice-Houses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Iranian architecture is formed in relation to its Hot and Dry climate. In this climate, most of the vernacular buildings are constructed by mud or sun-dried bricks. There are so many facilities that Iranian architecture has provided for better living such as Wind-Catchers (which exhaust warm air from buildings during the day), Cisterns (with cylindrical stores placed in the depth of the earth to preserve the cold fresh water during the hot seasons), Ice-Houses with walls behind which water in shallow channels friezes at nights, etc. The great heritage of the Iranian architecture and traditions are not well known yet. The construction traditions of vernacular architecture in Iran, reveal great methods of using natural energy resources which reduce the need to the fossil fuel. Among different Iranian cultural heritage, Ice-Houses are selected as the main subject of this book.
Icehouses
Icehouses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Icehouses write by Tim Buxbaum. This book was released on 2014-05-10. Icehouses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Often hidden away or incorporated into other architectural features, icehouses are a largely forgotten part of our heritage. As winters warmed through the nineteenth century, and supplies of natural ice declined, the development of artificial refrigeration made redundant these curious buildings – often status symbols in themselves – which had been designed to store winter snow and ice into the summer. Icehouses allowed perishables to be preserved, chilled delicacies to be enjoyed, and fevers to be relieved – and on a commercial scale they fed an international trade that carried snow from mountain peaks and ice from frozen lakes to supply the needs of industry, markets and householders. In this illustrated introduction, Tim Buxbaum explains how icehouses developed; how, when and where they were built; and how they operated, including a chapter on icehouses from around the world.
