Developing green infrastructure design guidelines for urban climate adaptation

Abstract

Existing scientific literature Evidencebased UGI design practice Revised design guidelines for climateresponsive UGI Preliminary design guidelines for climateresponsive UGI Questionnaire Criteria Methods Assessment of preliminary design guidelines in design studios Observations Plan analyses Usefulness Appreciation Comprehensibility Applicability Feasibility

Integrating Microclimate into Landscape Architecture for Outdoor Thermal Comfort: A Systematic Review

“…Second, some landscape architects are not very familiar with microclimate, so that they consider it less at the concept exploration phase [43][44][45][46][47]. Including microclimate modification in landscape architecture education can improve student understanding and appreciation of the role of microclimate in design.…”

Clever and cool : generating design guidelines for climate-responsive urban green infrastructure

“…Besides addressing the objective and subjective reality and being spatially explicit, scientific microclimate knowledge needs to be useful for design practitioners in order to warrant its implementation in urban design practice. Usefulness of knowledge, and in particular, of design guidelines, in this thesis was conceptualised as the composition of comprehensibility for designers, applicability in design processes, and feasibility in design practice (Klemm et al, 2017a). This consistent set of criteria was developed from earlier studies that indicated obstacles between scientific microclimate evidence and the needs of design practitioners (e.g., Brown and Corry, 2011, De Schiller and Evans, 1990, Eliasson, 2000, Lenzholzer, 2010a, Norton et al, 2015, Pijpers-van Esch, 2015.…”

Resource-conscious urban planning and design : Exploring the potential of urban metabolism assessments

“…Also in the context of urban climate adaptation, this integration is an important contribution that environmental designers can make. Against the backdrop of heat stress as a result of increasing temperatures and enhanced urban heat islands, climate-responsive design is concerned with creating urban environments that are thermally comfortable (Brown et al, 2015;Klemm et al, 2017). These designs consider the microclimate effects of, amongst others, the orientation of streets and buildings, type of surface materials, and types and locations of vegetation, whilst also accounting for aspects such as functionality, aesthetic appeal and maintenance (Jacobs et al, 2020;Klemm et al, 2017;Lenzholzer and Brown, 2013).…”

“…Future research should explore how descriptive and analytical insights from UM assessments can be translated in such a way that they enable judgment what action to take in which circumstances (Campbell, 2012). A promising approach could be to formulate UM planning and design guidelines: "evidence-based, universally applicable knowledge that guides urban design actions in a variety of site-specific spatial and functional circumstances, and that is considered useful by design practitioners" (Klemm et al, 2017) (see 6.4.1).…”

“…I recommend future transdisciplinary research aimed at making evidence from UM assessments more comprehensible for practitioners and better tailored to the design process. As Klemm et al (2017) show, participatory design workshops can be a means to formulate guidelines that connect scientific knowledge that has been obtained in a 'research for design' approach with knowledge of practitioners. A guideline suggests a specific strategy or principle for a set of situations that are generalisable; they are thus neither completely universal, nor entirely specific, prescribed solutions.…”