The Role of Functional Flexibility to Improve Energy Efficiency in Energy Consumption of the Case Borojerdiha house in Kashan

Subject Areas : Space Ontology International Journal

Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad ¹ , Leyli Hashemi Rafsanjani ²

1 - Department of Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Ph.D Student, Department of Low Energy Architecture, Kish Campus, University of Tehran, Iran

Received: 2014-06-14 Accepted : 2015-02-23 Published : 2015-06-01

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