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Amin Habibi and Nafise Kahe
This study investigates how permeable and cool pavements, green roofs, and living walls affect microclimatic conditions and buildings? energy consumption in an arid urban setting: Shiraz. The study aims to evaluate the role of green infrastructure in mit...
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Luca Zaniboni and Rossano Albatici
Current literature and guidelines on sustainable design often debate on the advantages of natural ventilation (NV) and mechanical ventilation (MV) on indoor environment and energy consumption. The present systematic review explores the existing literatur...
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Zhixing Li, Yukai Zou, Mimi Tian and Yuxi Ying
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Ivan Julio Apolonio Callejas, Raquel Moussalem Apolonio, Emeli Lalesca Aparecida da Guarda, Luciane Cleonice Durante, Karyna de Andrade Carvalho Rosseti, Filipa Roseta and Leticia Mendes do Amarante
Climate change impact is one of the most important global concerns at present. In the building environment, climate-responsive design may help to enhance the adaptation capacity through a better building energy performance. In this sense, this study addr...
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Zhixing Li, Paolo Vincenzo Genovese and Yafei Zhao
This paper proposes an optimization process based on a parametric platform for building climate responsive design. Taking residential buildings in six typical American cities as examples, it proposes thermal environment comfort (Discomfort Hour, DH), bui...
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SeyedehRabeeh HosseiniHaghighi, Fatemeh Izadi, Rushikesh Padsala and Ursula Eicker
With increasing urbanization, climate change poses an unprecedented threat, and climate-sensitive urban management is highly demanded. Mitigating climate change undoubtedly requires smarter urban design tools and techniques than ever before. With the con...
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Rosemary Kennedy, Laurie Buys and Evonne Miller
Dwellings in multi-storey apartment buildings (MSAB) are predicted to increase dramatically as a proportion of housing stock in subtropical cities over coming decades. The problem of designing comfortable and healthy high-density residential environments...
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A. Santos Nouri
One of the key objectives of contemporary urban design is to ensure the quality and activity within urban public spaces. Presented as a progressively emerging paradigm in this process, the effects of urban climatology are increasingly elucidating the nee...
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Carl Fiocchi, Simi Hoque and Mohammad Shahadat
Energy conservation and efficiency is an essential area of focus in contemporary building design. The perception that the designers of buildings during the Modernist period of architecture ignored these principles is a false one. The present study, an ex...
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