On the Thermal Environmental Quality of Typical Urban Settlement Configurations

Urban overheating and energy imbalances are severe environmental concerns. The role of urban sprawl patterns in the formation Heat Island has recently absorbed researchers’ interest. research focuses on metropolitan areas with a range typologies. However, there still is knowledge gap how UHI responds to different interaction between configurations heat island characteristics explored Sydney. A combination terrestrial surveys modelling techniques was implemented, results were extracted based simulation results. Taskforce Australia suggested applied categorization methods that follow Stewart Oke’s Local Climate Zones (LCZs) scheme. We assessed eleven designs ambient air temperature, wind characteristics, intensity, outdoor thermal comfort over three summer days. correlated density built-up ratio all found maximum configurational impact reached 2.33 °C. Configurations 0.37 0.5 present sharp downward trend average speed value indicate minimum 0.63. Wind maps an increase layouts ratios 0.23 0.37, whereas they decreased higher than 0.43. temperature decrease high-rise compact 1.12 °C per hour. This record substantially its open counterparts. study showed importance configuration quality. In addition, implementing appropriate design parameters vital mitigate islands improve areas.