A digital workflow to quantify regenerative urban design in the context of a changing climate

Naboni, Emanuele; Natanian, Jonathan; Brizzi, Giambattista; Florio, Pietro; Chokhachian, Ata; Galanos, Theodoros; Rastogi, Parag

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2019.109255

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“…The workflow introduced by Mackey et al [126] was validated against ENVI-met results and in-situ measurements for a tree-less actual site in Cairo, Egypt by Elwy et al [99], incorporates different effectual factors on outdoor thermal comfort that were calculated separately. Location specific wind speed, radiant temperature, and accounting for Urban Heat island (UHI) effect using Urban Weather Generator (UWG) [127] are all separate applications for different tools, which are combined into a simulation workflow by a manual and sequential technique [128].…”

Section: Limitations Of Simulation Toolsmentioning

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A Review and Insights for Eleven Years of Urban Microclimate Research Towards a New Egyptian ERA of Low Carbon, Comfortable and Energy-Efficient Housing Typologies

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Since the mid-1970s, urban development in Egypt has sprawled far from the distinguished compact arid built environment, as the court-yarded housing typologies that completed the vernacular picture of desert architecture have been discarded in the early 20th century. This has motivated urban microclimate research in Egypt. The main objective was initially to improve outdoor thermal comfort. Therefore, Egyptian research started with assessing different existing patterns for the sake of climate responsive and sustainable urban design practice characterized with low carbon, thermal comfort and energy efficiency in such a hot arid conditions. That is why the review workflow of this article has followed a design progress workflow that led to solving design complexities with regard to generating housing urban forms on a microclimate basis rather than an article regular review workflow in order to extract the research gaps and conclude insights. After discussing a general framework for generating housing sustainable design identified from the concluded gaps, the main conclusion is a vision and a call to integrate the Urban microclimate-Building passiveness-Renewables design dimensions, UBR, towards the evolution of a new era of energy efficient housing typologies and a 5th generation of Egyptian sustainable cities where the 1st generation of new Egyptian cities started 1970s.

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A Review and Insights for Eleven Years of Urban Microclimate Research Towards a New Egyptian ERA of Low Carbon, Comfortable and Energy-Efficient Housing Typologies

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“…Faraud as well points out that CE appears to be limited mainly under the umbrella of waste, and by narrowing the focus on flow circularity leads to a different type of linear analysis [45,46]. Naboni et al advocate that regenerative design, even that it goes far from just the limitation of the environmental impact of the built environment to climate change adaptation and improvement of human health, its implementations to urban scale are rare [47].…”

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Transition to Smart and Regenerative Urban Places (SRUP): Contributions to a New Conceptual Framework

Peponi

Morgado

2020

Land

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Modern urbanism is called to face current challenges ranging from intensive demographic growth, economic and social stagnation to resources salvation and climate changes. Under the broader scope of sustainability, we argue that the transition to a holistic perspective of smart and regenerative planning and design is the way to face and yet to prevent these urban challenges. In doing so, we adopt systematic thinking to study the complexity of urban metabolisms at an urban place scale, emphasizing the ongoing coevolution of social-cultural-technological and ecological processes. Focusing on urban places, we give a city or region the sense of a place of stability, security, cultural and social interactions, and a sense of uniqueness. We plan and design innovative urban places that improve the environment and the quality of urban life, able to adapt and mitigate climate changes and natural hazards, leverage community spirit, and power a green-based economy. Designing the conceptual framework of smart and regenerative urban places we contribute to the field of modern urban studies helping practitioners, policymakers, and decision-makers to vision and adopt more environmental-friendly policies and actions using a user-centered approach.

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“…These methods are highly deterministic as they constrain problem framing to the setting of weighting systems or predefine ranges of acceptable solutions without transparency and real control in the rationale behind different parametric design combinations. There are also some studies in the area of applying 'Parametric Design methods' to neighbourhood scale projects (De Luca, 2019;Naboni et al, 2019), interpreting it as a decisionmaking method whereas it is actually an environmental 'tool' developed to undertake sensitivity tests to understand the effects of specific design actions into one or more KPIs rather than a rationale or overarching framework to analyse and control decisions.…”

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Axiomatic Design in Regenerative Urban Climate Adaptation

Souza

Dunichkin

2021

Future City

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This chapter invokes the urban design community to provide transparency in design decision-making by discussing the role of design specifications and the production of evidence in enabling scrutiny and accountability of design proposals in relation to fulfilling sustainability goals and fighting climate change. It claims that original and verifiable regenerative design solutions emerge from clear design specifications supported by evidence, rather than normative sustainability alone. Evidence is understood as going beyond targets and extended to design specifications which are constantly tested in terms of flexibility and robustness, positively contributing to the ecosystem they are inserted in, once further decomposed towards a more detailed design proposal. Principles from Axiomatic Design are proposed as an approach to develop design specifications for regenerative climate adaptive urban design. This work attempts to illustrate the use of this method to practitioners through an example in which human-centric needs, values and aspirations are transformed into joint urban air pollution and outdoor bioclimatic comfort design requirements to be fulfilled by greenery, a regenerative design parameter common to both knowledge domains at the pedestrian layer of the urban environment.

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A digital workflow to quantify regenerative urban design in the context of a changing climate

Cited by 91 publications

References 37 publications

A Review and Insights for Eleven Years of Urban Microclimate Research Towards a New Egyptian ERA of Low Carbon, Comfortable and Energy-Efficient Housing Typologies

A Review and Insights for Eleven Years of Urban Microclimate Research Towards a New Egyptian ERA of Low Carbon, Comfortable and Energy-Efficient Housing Typologies

Transition to Smart and Regenerative Urban Places (SRUP): Contributions to a New Conceptual Framework

Axiomatic Design in Regenerative Urban Climate Adaptation

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