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THE DEGREE OF URBAN PATTERNS COMPACTNESS AS A PASSIVE COOLING STRATEGY IN HOT DESERT CLIMATE "WADI KARKAR VILLAGES – ASWAN AS A CASE STUDY"

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2024

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Architecture Engineering and the Engineering Architectural Interior Design.

Abstract

Pedestrian thermal comfort is related to the urban patterns generated from a specific urban planning methodology. It is noteworthy that urban planning process in Egypt does not consider passive urban design strategies to help reduce heat stresses, although there are historical examples of environmental architecture such as the Nubian architecture which considered one of the most famous examples of the desert architecture, where interacted with the surrounding environment. Therefore, this study investigates the best possible ratio for urban compactness as a passive cooling strategy. Moreover, it definesthe relationship between the compactness degree, air temperature, and air velocity, also the researchproposes the appropriate conditions for improving the pedestrian wind comfort. The numerical simulations were conducted, using the Autodesk CFD 2016 software. This research suggests some modifications for a variety of ratios in different orientations. The results show that the ratio 1 : 1.5 in the North-South orientation records the best value of the temperature and the air velocity. The results of the correlation indicate that the higher the air velocity the lower the air temperature and vice versa. In addition, the air velocity in most of the cases is suitable for long time outdoor sitting in different orientations.

DOI

10.21608/jesaun.2018.114995

Keywords

Pedestrian thermal comfort, Pedestrian wind comfort, Urban compactness, Passive cooling strategy, Nubian architecture

Authors

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Mohamed

Last Name

Hssan Hassan Abdelhafez

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Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University.

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46

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No 5

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16730

Issue Date

2018-09-01

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2018-06-03

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2018-09-01

Page Start

617

Page End

629

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1687-0530

Online ISSN

2356-8550

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1,438

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JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences

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THE DEGREE OF URBAN PATTERNS COMPACTNESS AS A PASSIVE COOLING STRATEGY IN HOT DESERT CLIMATE "WADI KARKAR VILLAGES – ASWAN AS A CASE STUDY"

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23 Jan 2023