The influence of building form variables on the environmental performance of semi-outdoor spaces. A study in mid-rise and high-rise buildings of Singapore

Gamero-Salinas, Juan; Kishnani, Nirmal; Monge-Barrio, Aurora; López–Fidalgo, Jesús; Gutiérrez, Ana Sánchez-Ostiz

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110544

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“…Whether described as 'open', 'empty' or 'vacated', these unmarked spaces provide a high degree of flexibility as well as a higher degree of public visibility for the actions that take place there. As a result, empty spaces offer both the opportunity for creative acts and the potential for discord about the appropriate use of these venues" The phenomenon of void man-made structures act as climate moderators, making it an expansion of lived space and space that foster social relations (Gamero-Salinas et al, 2021). Similarly, Farjami (2016) mentions that Iranian traditional architecture located in a hot-dry climate responds to climatic features through the use of void: "central courtyards in between masses of solid volumes reflect the idea of emptiness."…”

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“…For example, in Chinese architectural heritage, “Accordingly, the courtyard is associated with yáng, which is hierarchically higher than yín, represented by the built space” (Almodóvar-Melendo and Cabeza-Lainez, 2018, p. 9). In tropical areas, voids are also dominant, as semi-outdoor spaces are an essential component of the way of life since man-made structures act as climate moderators, making it an expansion of lived space and space that foster social relations (Gamero-Salinas et al. , 2021).…”

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Questioning the phenomenon of void in the built environment through a multidisciplinary perspective

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Dupré

2022

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PurposeThe aim of this article is to understand the definitions, trends and gaps currently existing in the literature regarding the concept of void in the built environment.Design/methodology/approachThe method used for this article is based on a bilingual narrative literature review, the authors being fluent both in French and English. The advantage of any literature review is that it allows researchers to gather and analyse existing academic literature on a specific subject. The chosen technique gives a thorough understanding of the study and helps in identifying research gaps. The literature review was sequential, online and used ScienceDirect, Scopus and Sage Knowledge as databases.FindingsThere are three main findings regarding this literature review. The first shows that the void is lacking consensus regarding its definition and attributes, yet this is unanimously considered as an existing space in the city. The second finding shows that voids are talking to our emotions and perceptions and more studies could investigate a new planning/design approach in taking this into consideration. At last, the third findings shows that there are some gaps that need to be further researched, such as the difference between Western and Eastern cultures to use voids in architecture.Originality/valueIn compiling 35 articles focussing on the void, this article proposes a valuable source of knowledge regarding this topic, as well as delineates new research directions.

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Questioning the phenomenon of void in the built environment through a multidisciplinary perspective

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2022

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“…have also shown that the thermal comfort zone is expanded and neutral temperatures are higher in semi‐outdoor environments than in indoor environments. Gamero‐Salinas et al 13,14 . have investigated the influence of building form variables on the physical environment.…”

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“…Studies by Hwang et al 11 and Spagnolo et al 12 have also shown that the thermal comfort zone is expanded and neutral temperatures are higher in semi-outdoor environments than in indoor environments. Gamero-Salinas et al 13,14 have investigated the influence of building form variables on the physical environment. However, few studies conducted subject experiments on thermal comfort in semioutdoor spaces considering spatial characteristics.…”

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Effects of various environmental grades on thermal comfort in semi‐outdoor spaces

Fukawa,

Watanabe,

Ogawa

et al. 2023

Japan Architectural Review

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The introduction of semi‐outdoor spaces to urban spaces and offices has increased in recent years. In previous studies, environmental grade has been defined as the level of control for the thermal environment set for an architectural space based on the use, where “semi‐outdoor environment” is an environmental grade division that exists as a gradation between indoors and outdoors. This study aims to clarify effects of various environmental grades on thermal comfort. Field surveys were conducted in five semi‐outdoor spaces in Tokyo from 9 to 25 September 2021, consisting of thermal environment measurement, questionnaires about thermal comfort and impression of surveyed spaces and real‐time sensation voting. By impression evaluation and comparison of the regression curves of standard new effective temperature (SET*) against percentage of “uncomfortably warm,” the surveyed spaces were classified into two categories: “outdoor tendency” and “indoor tendency.” The difference in thermal comfort for the diverse semi‐outdoor environment could be evaluated by the difference in spatial characteristics such as “sense of weight” of the top surface in addition to the difference in environment control. By regression analysis of real‐time sensation voting result using hierarchical Bayesian approach, environmental grade was clarified to affect the correlation between pleasantness/unpleasantness and air velocity.

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“…The large portfolio of use cases includes, for urban sustainability, energy [3], urban farming [4], socio-economic studies [5], routing [6], noise [7] or solar simulations [8]; for urban resilience microclimate [9], thermal comfort [10], flood exposure [11] or disaster management [12], and for urban transformations, urban morphology [13], population [14] or greenery [15]. To recast the boundaries of research of the role of buildings for planetary sustainability, it is essential that finegrained, high-quality, and comparable data are available across the world.…”

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Open government geospatial data on buildings for planning sustainable and resilient cities

Biljecki,

Chew,

Milojevic-Dupont

et al. 2021

Preprint

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As buildings are central to the social and environmental sustainability of human settlements, high-quality geospatial data are necessary to support their management and planning. Authorities around the world are increasingly collecting and releasing such data openly, but these are mostly disconnected initiatives, making it challenging for users to fully leverage their potential for urban sustainability. We conduct a global study of 2D geospatial data on buildings that are released by governments for free access, ranging from individual cities to whole countries. We identify and benchmark more than 140 releases from 28 countries containing above 100 million buildings, based on five dimensions: accessibility, richness, data quality, harmonisation, and relationships with other actors. We find that much building data released by governments is valuable for spatial analyses, but there are large disparities among them and not all instances are of high quality, harmonised, and rich in descriptive information. Our study also compares authoritative data to OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced counterpart, suggesting a mutually beneficial and complementary relationship.

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The influence of building form variables on the environmental performance of semi-outdoor spaces. A study in mid-rise and high-rise buildings of Singapore

Cited by 29 publications

References 52 publications

Questioning the phenomenon of void in the built environment through a multidisciplinary perspective

Questioning the phenomenon of void in the built environment through a multidisciplinary perspective

Effects of various environmental grades on thermal comfort in semi‐outdoor spaces

Open government geospatial data on buildings for planning sustainable and resilient cities

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