PASSIVE TECHNIQUES OF THERMIC CONTROL IN MOSLEM ARABIAN ARCHITECTURE

1 department of architecture, university of Batna, Algeria

2 department of earth science, university of Batna, Algeria

The Arabian - Moslem cities were based in dry zones with warm and dry climates and are

characterized by a long and austere warm season. It is for that reason that buildings were

conceived according to summer requirements. Those of winter will be satisfied as a

consequence.

The comfort of the users was assured with a sensible combination of several passive

strategies of thermal control, which are the result of a deepened knowledge of climatic

conditions. These strategies so passed on by the ancestors were resumed by the contemporary

researchers who improved them on scientific bases to supply the best conditions of life.

The culture of the Means - East and North Africa left an inheritance that shows through its

architecture a harmonious balance. From climatic point of view, constructions supply an

education on the different techniques of architectural conception, which adapt themselves to

the local climate and which, consequently, create a comfortable environment, as well in the

urban scale as on the scale of the cell.