Thermal Performance of Sustainable Element in Moayedi Icehouse in Iran

摘要

Iran's traditional architecture is one of the examples of sustainable architecture that has been trying to meet the needs of the people of its era. Access to ice in hot and dry summers was one of the needs of residents of the desert region. Therefore, architects designed icehouse, a space for ice production in the winter, storage and consumption in the summer. Icehouses have three main parts: ice reservoir, ice-making pond, and shadowing wall. The ice-making process was carried out in ice-making pool during the fall and winter, and the ice was stored in the ice house reservoir below the ground, until the summer. One of the ice house built in the Iranian desert region is Moayedi icehouse, located in Kerman, southeast of Iran. This study described the role of the shadowing wall in the process of ice production. To calculate the amount of ice in the pond during the winter season of the year, numerical calculations based on the amount of dissipated and absorbed heat are used. Based on the results of the calculations, the shadowing wall does not play any role in the production of ice, but the task of protecting produced ice during the sunlight.