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Church of Santa Sofia ... and criticisms of the Web on tourism and vacation packages in Istanbul, Turkey. ... No. 9 of 36 in Istanbul, Turkey. Yigitalp Hotel. 35 reviews. Last ... (Redirected from Cathedral of Santa Sofia) For other churches called Santa Sofia, Sofia see Santa (disambiguation). Hagia Sophia, Istanbul The church of Santa Sofia, the Divine Wisdom or Hagia Sophia (Greek:''''''''', Turkish Ayasofya M zesi) dedicated to the third person of the Trinity is one of the most sublime works of Byzantine art. It was built from 532 to 537, during the rule of Justinian I in Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire (now Istanbul in Turkey). Its architects, Antemio of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus, covered the building, almost square floor plan with a central dome on pendentives. This rests on four arches, supported in turn by four columns. Two semicupulas make buttress of the central dome and the walls are open insured by buttresses. It also has some beautiful Byzantine mosaics. Was used as a Christian church for almost a thousand years since its construction in the year 537 until the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, when it was converted into a mosque. There was the terrified inhabitants fled in the attack on the city. In 1935 it was converted into a museum. It was built on the old basilica of Constantine in just five years during the reign of Justinian by the Greeks and Tralles Antemio of Isidore of Miletus, mathematician and architect, respectively, treated in the words of Agatias of 'applying to the solid geometry . Justinian, according to his official chronicler Procopius of Caesarea, to see Santa Sofia finished exclaimed: "Salomon, I have superado . Hagia Sophia. Its architecture is highly space, although the effect has been significantly modified outside of the Ottomans, who...
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The danger of zero energy buildings The problem that presents the concept of building "zero energy" is that it ignores the energy rate of return (ERR) to assess the environmental impact of the building. This means that it is intended that the building does not consume energy duringtheir period of use, but this ignores the energy cost to implement the systems necessary means to achieve it. Because of this, zero energy buildings can fall easily in speech than advertising in real energy savings, if we apply the definition of zero energy building, a person who placed a generator and two hundred barrels of oil at home, obtained from automatically a "zero energy building," since throughout their period of use would not need to consume energy from outside. Rated by energy magazines as the #1 Esco meets or exceeds recommended energy efficiency ratings and standards. If we consider that oil is also used in the manufacture of photovoltaic panels, batteries, tanks, etc, and also counting the energy used in obtaining the necessary materials for their production (mining, blast furnaces, glass funcicion , transport ...), it is understood that the term "zero energy", where daily use is confined to the building, is only part of the equation, and can mislead. In fact, although in principle it is paradoxical, with current systems, non-zero energy buildings are more environmentally friendly as possible, since for almost total independence from foreign energy, are forced to oversize facilities active uptake of energy , so that some of them never recovered nor energy nor economically. To illustrate this, one can imagine a house that uses solar panels for heating. If it is not dependent on foreign energy, we need to put enough panels to heat the house even the coldest weeks of the year. If you do so, there will be panels that only...