Study of Universal Thermal Comfort Index in Hosing Estate Public Space in Bangkok, Thailand

A lower external temperature increases comfort and reduces the chance of heat stress; it can be impacted by the density of the urban area, and this is an important issue for the residents in housing estate developments. Therefore, to sustainably reduce this issue, the external temperature is important to manage for urban public spaces’ development. This article reports the results of studies on increasing thermal comfort in public areas by adding different types of shading into computer programs, Rhinoceros and Grasshopper, to calculate the Universal Thermal Comfort Index (UTCI). Increasing the outdoor comfort can be done by adding shaded areas via large trees that can result in thermal reduction and humidity increase, but they do not obstruct air circulation. The result can be used as a guideline for the design of public spaces in housing estates to meet the outdoor comfort efficiently and support the users’ expectations.

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Outdoor Thermal Comfort Improvement of Campus Public Space

Advances in Technology Innovation ◽

10.46604/aiti.2021.6453 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Damrongsak Rinchumphu ◽

Non Phichetkunbodee ◽

Nakarin Pomsurin ◽

Chawanat Sundaranaga ◽

Sarote Tepweerakun ◽

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Keyword(s):

Thermal Comfort ◽

Public Space ◽

Thermal Conditions ◽

Simulation Software ◽

Outdoor Thermal Comfort ◽

Base Case ◽

Comfort Index ◽

Design Alternatives ◽

Large Trees ◽

Field Data Collection

This study focuses on the design of a campus public space, located within the Faculty of Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. This area faces extreme temperatures, creating uncomfortable outdoor thermal conditions and hindering activities that are expected to support the learning and social cohesion needs of students. To create the best conditions in this space, three design alternatives such as adding a pond, large trees, or shrubs were considered, and the Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET) was used to calculate the outdoor thermal comfort index for each alternative. The alternatives were then compared to the base case. The PET can be calculated using the ENVI-met simulation software following the appropriate field data collection and calibration process. The results showed that adding large trees in the south-west area is the best design alternative. The PET for this alternative was 3.17 % lower than the base case. In addition, this design workflow is an effective working model for further outdoor public space designs to meet the constraints of effective sustainable development in any tropical campus area.

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Thermal Perception in the Mediterranean Area: Comparing the Mediterranean Outdoor Comfort Index (MOCI) to Other Outdoor Thermal Comfort Indices

Energies ◽

10.3390/en9070550 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 550 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Iacopo Golasi ◽

Ferdinando Salata ◽

Emanuele de Lieto Vollaro ◽

Massimo Coppi ◽

Andrea de Lieto Vollaro

Keyword(s):

Thermal Comfort ◽

Mediterranean Area ◽

Outdoor Thermal Comfort ◽

Thermal Perception ◽

Comfort Index ◽

Outdoor Comfort ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Comfort Indices

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Expert Role of Regional Museum for the Projects of Public Spaces Improvement

KnE Social Sciences ◽

10.18502/kss.v4i11.7535 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Tatyana Ladygina ◽

Maria Belyaeva

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Public Space ◽

Modern Society ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Small Towns ◽

History Museum ◽

Cultural Workers ◽

Public Areas ◽

Reconstruction Project ◽

The City

This article considers the experience of improving public spaces of one of the small towns in Sverdlovsk region – the city of Krasnoufimsk. The topic of urban improvement is a serious challenge for our country. When designing public areas, it is important to consider the features of the city, its history, uniqueness, opinion of the population. Several tasks can be solved through the improvement of the city: the development of a comfortable urban environment, attracting tourists and preserving the cultural heritage. The choice of certain landscaping projects in most cases requires historical and cultural examination. Cultural workers should also act as experts in the public space reconstruction project. This article reflects on a similar experience during the reconstruction project of the Ufa river embankment in the central district of Krasnoufimsk, when employees of the regional museum were invited to participate. The text presents examples of filling the space of the embankment with hidden meanings from the regional history. The authors are of the opinion that representatives of museum community in modern society are not only keepers of the past, but also creators of the future image of the city. Keywords: public spaces, urban landscaping, small town, cultural heritage, historical and cultural expertise, local history museum

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Reframing Public Spaces: from Recreational Amenity to Civic Good in Resilient Cities. COVID-19 Offers an Opportunity to Re-evaluate Neighbourhood Spaces to Ensure they are Available to All

The Journal of Public Space ◽

10.32891/jps.v5i3.1416 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 67-82

Author(s):

Kevin Hsu

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Critical Element ◽

Human Beings ◽

Demographic Groups ◽

Work Settings ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Knowledge Based Economy ◽

Public Areas ◽

Central Business Districts

Cities emerging from the pandemic increasingly recognize that public spaces are a critical element of resilience, not merely recreational amenities. Future public spaces must be designed to accommodate more diverse and distanced activities, and may even change function entirely during public health emergencies. The need for informal public spaces has also become apparent, and cities can benefit from identifying them as resources and integrating them into land-use plans. Parks, sidewalks and cycling paths can be justified as investments in resilience and survivability and quickly expanded. Their provision must be viewed through the lens of social and spatial equity: in many cities, not every person or community has convenient access to these critical public goods. Planners must go beyond metrics on the mere availability or density of public spaces, and delve deeper to assess the quality of spaces, and the ability of different demographic groups to reach them. Historic neighbourhoods that developed organically offer useful inspiration when designing for equitable access and daily convenience, and can also accommodate the dispersal of jobs away from central business districts. Efforts to develop decentralised, “complete” neighbourhoods can be a boon for adaptive reuse, public space provision, and greater variety of work settings, while public areas of civic buildings can be re-imagined as nodes of collaboration in a knowledge-based economy. Beyond building infrastructure, maintaining lively and welcoming public spaces requires empathy, respect for the commons, and care for fellow human beings. Physical spaces in a city can only be fully and genuinely “public” if they are safe, and open to everyone, regardless of age, language, identity, sexual orientation or ability. As cities undertake revitalization efforts following the pandemic, they must strive to ensure such places are available to all.

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The Public Interior:

IDEA JOURNAL ◽

10.37113/ideaj.vi0.52 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 44-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Tine Poot ◽

Maarten Van Acker ◽

Els De Vos

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Interior Design ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Shopping Malls ◽

The Public ◽

Academic Fields ◽

Interdisciplinary Design ◽

Public Areas ◽

Private Owner ◽

Interior Environments

Architect Manuel de Solà-Morales was one of the first designers to stress the importance of public interiors – places that are used as public spaces although they might belong to a private owner.1 Examples are libraries, hospitals or shopping malls. However, included within the concept of the public interior are also publicly owned spaces such as arcades, passages and inner courtyards, as well as collective outdoor public areas that provide shelter such as bus shelters (Figure1).These are spaces that Kristiaan Borret, the former city architect for Antwerp, describes as ‘secondary public spaces’. They differ from the so called ‘primary public spaces’, that is to say the actual streets, market places and squares.2 Complex interior environments are often subject to commercial logic or developer standards, factors that tend to make them less public. The layout of public interiors ought to be considered a challenging field of design and research, but this is not always the case. Where the ‘primary public space’, in particular, has long been the focus of research within the scholarly field of urban design and urbanism, existing research into public interiors proves to be fragmented. While ‘toolboxes’ for urban planners have been established, they lack the perspectives traditionally found in the field of interior architecture and interior design, such as user-relations, atmospheric variables and furniture design.Yet these considerations are particularly relevant to the conditions found within public interiors. Besides defining the term ‘public interior’, this paper aims to contribute to the development of an interdisciplinary design approach by exploring various methods for the analysis of ‘the public interior’ in the fields of urbanism, architecture, interior design and related academic fields.

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Complying with the demand of standardization in outdoor thermal comfort: a first approach to the Global Outdoor Comfort Index (GOCI)

Building and Environment ◽

10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.12.021 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 130 ◽

pp. 104-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Iacopo Golasi ◽

Ferdinando Salata ◽

Emanuele de Lieto Vollaro ◽

Massimo Coppi

Keyword(s):

Thermal Comfort ◽

Outdoor Thermal Comfort ◽

Comfort Index ◽

Outdoor Comfort

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Urban Sustainability and Climate Issues: The Effect of Physical Parameters of Streetscape on the Thermal Comfort in Urban Public Spaces; Case Study: Karimkhan-e-Zand Street, Shiraz, Iran

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su131910886 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (19) ◽

pp. 10886

Author(s):

Ali Reza Sadeghi ◽

Yasaman Bahadori

Keyword(s):

Thermal Comfort ◽

Public Space ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Physical Parameters ◽

View Factor ◽

Climatic Data ◽

Climatic Parameters ◽

Urban Streets

One of the most important issues in urban studies relating to climate and environmental sustainability is the analysis of the thermal conditions of urban public spaces, especially urban streets, since this issue seems to affect the comfort of citizens using such spaces. Thus, the main aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of streetscape parameters on the thermal comfort of citizens using urban streets in a hot summer and in a hot semi-arid climate. For this purpose, Karimkhan-e-Zand Street in Shiraz, Iran, was selected as the case study. The selected street is a historical and popular public space of Shiraz. In the present study, using physical and micro-climatic data analyzed in ENVI-met v4 software, the thermal comfort conditions of Karimkhan-e-Zand in Shiraz on 10 July were simulated during the hottest day of the year. Furthermore, the relationships between physical street parameters and micro-climatic parameters and their effects on the thermal comfort index (PMV) were investigated through running a set of regressions in STATA 14 and analysis of ENVI-met v4 output maps. The results of the present study show that the thermal comfort of the citizens, which is determined by the PMV index values, is in very poor condition in almost all the studied hours, and the air temperature has the greatest effect compared to other micro-climatic parameters on the PMV index. The results of present study also show a significant relationship between the sky view factor and mean radiant temperature, as well as between the surface albedo and relative humidity. Furthermore, the type of vegetation and the aspect ratio of the street affect the level of increase in thermal comfort on the street.

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Thermal-comfort evaluation of and plan for public space of Maling Village, Henan, China

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0256439 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (9) ◽

pp. e0256439

Author(s):

Qindong Fan ◽

Fengtian Du ◽

Hu Li ◽

Chenming Zhang

Keyword(s):

Thermal Comfort ◽

Public Space ◽

Thermal Environment ◽

Outdoor Environment ◽

Spatial Form ◽

Outdoor Activities ◽

Comfort Index ◽

The Village ◽

Microclimate Environment

The thermal environment of village public space affects the comfort of people ’ s outdoor activities, and then affects the willingness of residents to outdoor activities, which has an important impact on the villagers’ quality of life. Previously published studies of thermal comfort mostly focused on the evaluation of thermal comfort index, few studies on the application of thermal comfort planning. The study was carried out in Maling Village, Changdai Town, Mengjin County, Luoyang City, Henan Province, China. Square, street, green space were chosen as three typical public spaces where thermal comfort indexes were measured by questionnaire survey and field measurement during summer. Subsequently, the village’s microclimate environment was simulated with ArcGIS 10.6 and ENVI-met. The results indicate that during the summer, the influences of temperature, solar radiation, wind speed, and relative humidity on the subjective comfort conditions of the outdoor environment gradually decreased. The spatial form of village has an important influence on thermal comfort. Finally, based on the results, this study put forward the thermal comfort process and planning scheme of the village outdoor space.

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Reconstruction Of Urban Parks Of Culture And Rest Of The Soviet Period

Promyshlennoe i Grazhdanskoe Stroitel stvo ◽

10.33622/0869-7019.2019.12.61-65 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 61-65

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Senior Citizens ◽

Urban Parks ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Historical Background ◽

Soviet Period ◽

Limited Mobility ◽

Functional Zoning ◽

Functional Areas ◽

The City

This article analyzes the main problems of urban public spaces, because today public spaces can determine the future of cities. It is noted that parks are multifunctional public spaces in the urban environment, as they are an important element of the citywide system of landscaping and recreation, perform health, cultural, educational, aesthetic and environmental functions. The article notes that the need for easily accessible and well-maintained urban parks remains, however, the state of parks in many cities of Russia remains unsatisfactory, requiring reconstruction. A brief historical background of the Park of Culture and Rest of the Soviet period in Omsk is expounded, the analysis of the existing territory of the Park is presented. It is revealed that the Park, being the largest public space in Omsk, does not meet the requirements of modern urbanism, although it represents a great potential for designing the space for the purpose of recreation of citizens. Performed functional zoning scheme of the territory of the Park in question, where its division into functional areas destined for active recreational users of the Park is presented, considered the interests of senior citizens, people with limited mobility, etc. Reconstruction of Parks of the Soviet period can provide the city with additional recreational opportunities, as well as increase its tourist attractiveness.

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The Culture Zone in Katowice and its qualities as a public space

Urban Development Issues ◽

10.2478/udi-2018-0026 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 27-41

Author(s):

Paweł Pistelok

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Public Life ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Social Functions ◽

Upper Silesia ◽

Industrial Heritage ◽

Basic Rights ◽

Post Industrial ◽

Right Of Access

Abstract A city’s public spaces ought to meet a number of requirements to serve their main purpose, that is to foster public life. They need, for instance, to answer people’s needs, fulfil certain social functions, and let people use their basic rights, among them the most important right of access. In Katowice, one of the most prominent examples of the regeneration of public spaces is now the Culture Zone. The aim of this paper is to discuss the development of social functions in the area mentioned, a fine example of the post-industrial heritage of Upper Silesia. Applying some of the qualities of public space identified in the theories adopted, the paper discusses how the Culture Zone [in Polish: Strefa Kultury] fulfils the above-mentioned demands and requirements. Is it accessible? Does it meet the need for comfort? Does it function as a leisure space? By referring to analyses and opinions presented in the literature and comparing them with the results of the author’s own empirical research, this article discusses the importance, opportunities, and shortcomings of the Culture Zone as a public space.

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