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Almober Mohammed published Design Process under Engineering, Architecture on Jun 21, 2021

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A sustainable building in the purest part of the earth, the pilgrimage site in Mina - Mecca - Saudi Arabia

The building consists of 3 floors

The building accommodates 132 people, including 12 (disabled or elderly)

The room accommodates 6 people

The building has 9 bathrooms for healthy people.

It has 12 bathrooms for disabled people, the elderly and their companions.

The building is designed to create a healthy and comfortable environment

The building is sustainable and derives electricity from the sun using solar panels

Rainwater is used to irrigate trees that shade and soften the atmosphere in the Hajj pilgrimage

The structural system of the building is the iron system, for ease of construction, flexibility in construction and light weight

As for the exterior finishing of the building, it is high grade wood, which is anti-moisture and fire-retardant, to reduce the use of concrete so as to cause the least amount of carbon emissions, and to use environmentally friendly building materials.

And as for the finishing of the building from the inside and the walls between the rooms are fireproof and moisture-proof wood panels.

The VRV system was used and it consists of three units

1- The outdoor unit was placed on the roof of the building and it treats the air (cooling or heating it).

2 - The indoor unit, which distributes air to the SUPPLY DIFFUSER GRILL or CASSETTE MULTI FLOW inside the rooms, and the indoor unit is located above the false ceiling

3- return diffuser grill.

The suspended ceiling was used at a height of 2.8 meters, where the panels at which the ceiling ends are attached to an iron frame, and the resulting space is used for air conditioning and electricity supplies, which is 0.6 meters high.

The slab is a steel deck, a slab of a steel deck is installed on the beams and reinforced concrete of small thickness is poured on top of it.

The building is designed to use lighting that uses less electricity and less heat

Each room has two windows for natural ventilation in addition to a central cooling VRV system

The idea is inspired by the palm of a person who supplicates to God on the occasion of Hajj

The idea was abstracted and combined with the correct movements of prayer