Sustainable Masonry Building-Shell Design of Byzantine Monuments in Greece for Energy Efficient Constructions

摘要

Conservation of historical buildings is important to societies that are eager to perpetuate the collective memory. These societies protect their cultural resources and preserve their heritage. To promote the use and preservation of historic buildings, attention must be paid when incorporating modern building service systems. These systems must be adapted to functional peculiarities and demands of the building elements. Winter heating and summer cooling of monumental building can be very demanding and energy consuming task. Consequently, the detailed calculation of their envelope is very important. Masonry buildings, tend to regulate the external temperature fluctuations they are subjected to, either by storing heat in their thermal mass or by offering it back to the interior, with a time lag depending on the thermal capacity of the building and characterized mainly by the overall mass of the masonry. This time lag may vary from a few hours when lightweight masonry is concerned to several days for masonry buildings of large mass. The scope of this work is to calculate the thermal capacity of Byzantine (334□1453 AD) monuments in Greece and to show how their thermal capacity affects their internal temperature temporal profile. The analysis will be based on a typical 6th AD century Byzantine Church in Thessaloniki Greece, dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God our Lord (Aghia Sophia).