Volume 3, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 27–39
D. Kannamma1 and Dr.A.Meenatchi Sundaram2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Original language: English
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Urban microclimate is very much influenced by the various anthropometric factors like pollution, population growth, scarce vegetation, lack of significant open spaces and so on. Built environment also in a very significant manner contributes in this influence. Considering the building environment of the city, factors like building layout, street geometry contribute a key role in altering the urban micro climate. The comfort of the interior spaces can be improvised with either of the active or passive techniques. Outdoor comfort is seldom thought of .Though there are many aspects of the built environment considered as factors in influencing outdoor thermal comfort, this paper focuses on the contribution of street geometry.
To understand the influence of street geometry on outdoor thermal comfort traditional and the modern streets layout are documented and analyzed. The outcome of this paper is to establish the relationship between the elements of street geometry and the outdoor thermal comfort index PET.
Author Keywords: Street geometry, outdoor thermal comfort, PET, RAYMAN.
D. Kannamma1 and Dr.A.Meenatchi Sundaram2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Urban microclimate is very much influenced by the various anthropometric factors like pollution, population growth, scarce vegetation, lack of significant open spaces and so on. Built environment also in a very significant manner contributes in this influence. Considering the building environment of the city, factors like building layout, street geometry contribute a key role in altering the urban micro climate. The comfort of the interior spaces can be improvised with either of the active or passive techniques. Outdoor comfort is seldom thought of .Though there are many aspects of the built environment considered as factors in influencing outdoor thermal comfort, this paper focuses on the contribution of street geometry.
To understand the influence of street geometry on outdoor thermal comfort traditional and the modern streets layout are documented and analyzed. The outcome of this paper is to establish the relationship between the elements of street geometry and the outdoor thermal comfort index PET.
Author Keywords: Street geometry, outdoor thermal comfort, PET, RAYMAN.
How to Cite this Article
D. Kannamma and Dr.A.Meenatchi Sundaram, “INFLUENCE OF STREET GEOMETRY ON URBAN MICROCLIMATE – A COMPARISON OF TRADITIONAL AND MODERN STREETS OF SRIRANGAM,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 27–39, June 2014.
