Given the current need to reduce Urban Heat Island (UHI) worldwide, one of strategies that can contribute this mitigation is green façades. In context, aim research evaluate a Living Wall System (LWS) as strategy urban heat island in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, using outdoor test cells. This was focused on monitoring two different façades, an LWS and reference façade, during warmer month...

threats are one of the most fundamental problems of our modern societies that daily will affect citizens in urban spaces. this becomes more problematic when the people in their everyday living spaces encounter with behaviors that cause lack of security and should have been feel comfort and their families used these spaces freely. this causes many problems for citizens. in today cities because o...

Vegetation provides significant benefits for urban thermal environments attracting people to open spaces. Especially in tropical climates, squares are more vulnerable discomfort due surrounding buildings and increased hard surface coverage compared parks. Since the space planting is limited, a proper arrangement essential enhance outdoor comfort (OTC). Nevertheless, impact of different arrangem...

In this paper a framework for deriving highlevel scene attributes from low-level image features is presented. Examples of attributes derived are photo-painting, indoor-outdoor, night-day and nature-city. The assignment of the attributes to images is done by a hierarchical classification of the low level features, which capture colour, texture and spatial information. A prototype for image class...

This paper describes a novel method for recognizing the classes of street-parking vehicles. We have already developed the following two systems: one is vehicle recognition system based on local-feature configuration, and the other is detecting street-paring vehicles from side-view range images. In this paper, we combine these two systems to develop a new system with which we can not only count ...

How to deploy passive building design strategy adaptive to climate change scenarios at urban neighbourhood level is currently not well understood. A microclimate change outdoor and indoor coupled simulation assessment framework for passive building adaptation design in an urban neighborhood context is proposed. Based on computational modelling, it was developed to investigate summer overheating...