The Impact of Orientation on Living Wall Façade Temperature: Manchester Case Study

Living walls are a nature-based strategy to enhance climate resilience in urban areas. There is need study the possible influence of living on thermal performance building façades, given rising temperatures 2022 across UK. This aims analyze impacts façade temperature based orientation variation through simulation Envi-met 5.0.3. software. The wall studied attached multistory located Manchester city center consisting seven evergreen plants. An environmental was carried out linked climate, including extremely hot and cold days. Four scenarios façades with without greening northwest southeast orientations summer winter were analyzed. results highlighted wall’s ability reduce surface both day. no significant evidence improvement for but modestly increased shown compared bare wall. These findings indicate that provide measurable advantages envelope, leading energy saving.