Building Configuration of Low-Cost Apartments in Bandung—Its Contribution to the Microclimate and Outdoor Thermal Comfort

Paramita, Beta; Fukuda, Hiroatsu; Khidmat, Rendy Perdana; Matzarakis, Andreas

doi:10.3390/buildings8090123

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“…Additionally, scholars continue to put forward new research methods based on software simulation [37]. In recent years, the ENVI-met simulation method for urban microclimate environments with different climate characteristics has been frequently applied in academic research [33,38,39]. Deep exploration of the mechanism of urban climate change is the key to urban environment improvement and related policy development.…”

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Environmental Effects from Pocket Park Design According to District Planning Patterns—Cases from Xi’an, China

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Rapid urban expansion leads to the continuous deterioration of the urban thermal environment, which endangers the sustainable development of the city; meanwhile, countries all over the world are becoming increasingly interested in the mitigating effects of urban green spaces on heat islands. In this context, many studies show that pocket parks play an important role in optimizing the thermal environment of urban blocks, especially with the high-intensity development of urban blocks. Moreover, many cities in China have become mature, and it is difficult to open up large green areas. Therefore, to improve the urban thermal environment in summer, it is necessary to adapt to an efficient pocket-park design strategy in blocks. To consider the impact of block development intensity on the design strategy of pocket parks, three pocket parks in blocks with different floor-area ratios in the central area of Xi’an were selected as examples. This research compares the effects of tree density and green-space layout on the thermal environment in different floor-area ratio districts on a summer day using environmental simulation (ENVI-met). The results show that the design strategies of pocket parks in urban blocks with different development intensities are different. High tree density performs better from the perspective of improving the urban thermal environment. For the low and medium development intensity blocks, the effects of the open green space and closed green space are similar, while the open green space layout can significantly improve thermal comfort in high-intensity development blocks.

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Environmental Effects from Pocket Park Design According to District Planning Patterns—Cases from Xi’an, China

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“…However, very few studies focused on building scale that considers the impact of building form, including shape, height, orientation and location of the target building, etc., on the microclimate of its outdoor space in detail. Anisha et al [10] and Beta et al [11] investigated effects of building forms on microclimate, but they just considered a few simple and fundamental forms. To fully explore the effect of building forms on outdoor thermal comfort, a series of design scenarios for various building forms should be considered.…”

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Improving outdoor thermal comfort of a kindergarten by optimizing its building shape with genetic algorithm

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Chen

et al. 2023

E3S Web of Conf.

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Thermally comfortable mircoclimate is essential for creating high-quality outdoor spaces that attract citizens and boost city vitality. Previous design efforts to improve outdoor thermal comfort were usually conducted at large scales, such as city scale, neighborhood scale, urban block scale. Few researchers focused on the building scale. This study proposes an optimization framework based on genetic algorithm to determine the building shape, orientation, and location during early design stage that reduces the overall thermal stress in the target outdoor space. Solar radiation and wind fields were simulated to obtain the outdoor Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) as the performance indicator. The simulations were validated against the experimental data. This investigation applied the proposed optimization framework to design the outdoor space for a kindergarten under the climate of Tianjin and Shanghai, respectively. The results showed that optimization reduced the overall thermal stress. The most favourable kindergarten forms were suggested through optimization. This study supplements the inverse design of outdoor thermal comfort at building scale and provides suggestions to create comfortable urban outdoor spaces.

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“…He et al studied the relationship between urban heat island (UHI) and the ongoing sponge city (SPC) project in China (He et al, 2019). Paramita et al used ENVI-met to simulate the outdoor Mean Radiation Temperature (Tmrt) and Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) to explore the outdoor thermal comfort surrounding low-rent housing in different layouts in Indonesia, finding that parallel plots of land with buildings facing north and south are the most favorable building forms and configurations (Paramita et al, 2018). Xu et al took a plateau village (3,500 m above sea level) next to the Sichuan-Tibet Highway as a case and selected four typical courtyard layouts and outdoor reference points in the village to assess Tmrt and PET through field measurements.…”

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Impacts of Water Bodies on Microclimates and Outdoor Thermal Comfort: Implications for Sustainable Rural Revitalization

Cheng

Liu

Zhang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Water is the source of life and the fundamental element of ecology, and climate is inseparable from water. To evaluate the influence of water-adaptive space in a traditional Weizi (polder village) settlement on its microclimate, the authors analyzed the morphological characteristics of such a polder village and applied the ENVI-met model to simulate the impact of water bodies and village morphological elements on human thermal comfort. This paper demonstrates the positive impact of water bodies on improving the thermal environment of a village and regulating its microclimate by quantifying the impact of morphological elements of the settlement on microclimate. The results indicate that: 1) The simulation model fits the actual measurements well, and the simulation accurately reflects experimental results; 2) In summer, the cooling effect of water bodies is better in the afternoon than in the morning, especially from 12:00 to 15:00. The cooling effect is significantly correlated with the distance to water bodies, i.e., the closer, the better; 3) Building density and man-made underlying surface are negatively correlated with temperature, humidity, and Physiological Equivalent Temperature value, while greening rate and water body rate are positively correlated with microclimate. Overall, water bodies can improve outdoor comfort in summer and thus should be protected and developed in rural planning and design. Villages can be built around water bodies for a maximized cooling effect, and microclimate comfort can be effectively improved by increasing green plants near the village center, and reducing man-made underlying surface and building density. The results of this study will guide the improvement of the habitat environment in the process of rural revitalization, as well as the protection and re-development of traditional villages.

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Building Configuration of Low-Cost Apartments in Bandung—Its Contribution to the Microclimate and Outdoor Thermal Comfort

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

Environmental Effects from Pocket Park Design According to District Planning Patterns—Cases from Xi’an, China

Environmental Effects from Pocket Park Design According to District Planning Patterns—Cases from Xi’an, China

Improving outdoor thermal comfort of a kindergarten by optimizing its building shape with genetic algorithm

Impacts of Water Bodies on Microclimates and Outdoor Thermal Comfort: Implications for Sustainable Rural Revitalization

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