Climate-Responsive Green-Space Design Inspired by Traditional Gardens: Microclimate and Human Thermal Comfort of Japanese Gardens

Urban green spaces can provide relaxation, exercise, social interaction, and many other benefits for their communities, towns, cities. However, in hot humid regions risk being underutilized by residents unless thermal environments are designed to be sufficiently comfortable. Understanding what conditions needed comfortable outdoor spaces, particularly how people feel regard environment, is vital designing public use. Traditional gardens excellent examples of successful microclimate design from which we learn, as they developed over the generations through observation modification. This study analyzed Japanese affect people’s stress on extremely summer days. Meteorological data was collected three gardens, human comfort evaluated physiological equivalent temperature (PET). Statistical analysis examined relationship between spatial configurations comfort. Our revealed that efficiently ameliorate stress. Spatial showed garden elements variously depending time day distribution.