The Waterfront trail is a crucial outdoor activity area for urban residents, but the increasing high temperature in summer has negatively affected quality of activities. To address this issue, article examines relationship between spatial form waterfront trails and thermal comfort, using West Lake Hangzhou as an example. Seven spaces were selected study, six structure parameters three climatic ...

As an inseparable organ, courtyards have influenced the history of architecture with their presence in the context of constructed sites and in a wider sense (architecture), it has provided permissive answers to numerous aspects of climatic, cultural and security demands of the residents. Discovering different aspects of environmental and climatic function in the central courtyard of the traditi...

the universal thermal climate index (utci) addresses these shortcomings by using an advanced thermo-physiological model. the aim of this study was to investigate and prepare zoning of thermal comfort condition using utci. meteorological data including temperature, wind speed, cloudiness and relative humidity were obtained on a daily time scale from 10 synoptic stations during (2004-2013) period...

Existing thermal comfort field studies are mainly focused on the relationship between the indoor physical environment and the thermal comfort. In numerous chamber experiments, physiological parameters were adopted to assess thermal comfort, but the experiments' conclusions may not represent a realistic thermal environment due to the highly controlled thermal environment and few occupants. This ...

Abstract Planting trees along urban streets is one of the most important strategies to improve thermal environment. However, net impacts street on human comfort and physiological parameters are still less clear. On three similar east–west orientated with different degrees tree cover—low (13%), medium (35%), high (75%), microclimatic indices for six male students were simultaneously measured clo...

Oases settlements are common entities of human agglomerations throughout desert regions. face several environmental challenges such as climate change, which can render them insufferably hot and unlivable within decades. Therefore, this study aims to assess the outdoor thermal comfort variation three different oases urban fabrics Tolga Complex in Algeria. The overarching aim is quantify guide la...

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 vita...

considering high population and hot and arid climate in most cities in iran, creating optimum thermal comfort during the hot periods is necessary. an experiment was conducted to examine the effect of percentage vegetation and hard surfaces on changes of temperature, humidity and thermal comfort of in three urban sites and mashhad weather station was investigated. climate and recorded data from ...