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  1. The solar protection system consisting of fixed slates or grids, outside a building façade in front of openings, is known as
    1. Brise-soleil
    2. Solarium
    3. Malqaf
    4. Trombe wall
Correct Option: A

Brise soleil, sometimes brise-soleil,meaning a ‘sun-breaker’, is an architectural feature of a building that reduces heat gain within t hat building by deflecting sunlight. Malqaf is a wind tower or a wind catcher in traditional Iranian ar chit ecture. Solarium is a room fitted with extensive areas of glass to admit sunlight. A Trombe wall is a passive solar building design where a wall is built on the winter sun side of a building with a glass external layer and a high heat capacity internal layer separated by a layer of air.



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