“…High-Rise buildings are dominant elements in urban architecture due to their scale and purpose, and should be the focus of sustainable design (Ali & Armstrong, 2008).The microclimate parameters in outdoor spaces, including the air temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, solar radiation etc., are significantly influenced by various configurations of urban texture, such as plot ratio, site coverage, building height, and building arrangement etc (Deng, Wong, & Zheng, 2016).Wind is fundamentally caused by heat radiated by the sun. Radiation, thermodynamic and mechanical phenomena transform the thermal energy imparted to the atmosphere into mechanical energy associated with air motion, giving rise to various types of wind (Simiu, 2011, p. 109).Wind flows that affect buildings and other structures are characterized by two fundamental features: (1) the increase of the wind speed with height, and (2) the atmospheric turbulence (Simiu, 2011, p. 117).…”