The Role Of The Urban Fabric in Reducing of the physical loads for the environment applied Within The Free Space - Street-, For Saharan Cities, Case Study Of The City Of Biskra -Algerie

Qaoud, Rami; Alkama, Djamel; Hanafi, Abdelhakim; Marouane, Samir Guedouh

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2018.11.157

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“…The concept of physical comfort takes part of a more comprehensive concept that includes psychological comfort that involves color, place, and music; and physical comfort that embraces natural physical loads and comfort applied in the urban construction [1][2][3][4][5]. These loads are divided into four main categories, 1-air convection 2-illumination 3-wind load 4acoustic load [4][5][6].. While extreme loads threaten human wellbeing, moderate loads are humanfriendly.…”

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“…While extreme loads threaten human wellbeing, moderate loads are humanfriendly. This latter is called 'physical comfort' [6]., meaning that there is a state of complete convenience with the different natural physical loads. Nevertheless, the fifth type, called 'olfactory load' cannot be measured by numerical values as it depends on the human mind map, in which tastes differ from one person to another according to their cultural background, unlike other loads that represent a physical truth that affects the human body physically and has nothing to do with human culture, gender, or belief [4][5][6][7].…”

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Study on the Outdoor Comfort Threshold from Physical Loads: A Case Study in Biskra, Algeria

Qaoud

Alkama

2023

TSSJ

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This study explores the values threshold of physical loads (air temperature, illumination, and sound level) applied in the urban space that represents the limits of human comfort, as well as the effect of the urban environment in terms of the density of buildings on those loads and help to provide ultimate comfort. The methodology of this study was founded on field experiments to obtain the physical load’s data for three consecutive days during the summer season’s peak. Then, this data is to be studied and analyzed through a comprehensive approach of the physical loads and according to the comfort levels of each load. The results proved the failure of the urban environment of the measurement stations to keep all the physical loads below the comfort threshold, except for the wind and sound loads that were below the comfort threshold. The air temperature and illumination were far from the comfort threshold, especially at midday and peak time. There were also differences in the values of the recorded loads between the measurement samples that reached a degree and a half for the air temperature, 8000 lux for illumination, and 7 dB for sound level. This remarkable difference explained the role of building density in the physical loads found in the open urban space, and the reduction of those loads to be within the required range of the physical comfort threshold.

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Section: Physical Comfortmentioning

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Study on the Outdoor Comfort Threshold from Physical Loads: A Case Study in Biskra, Algeria

Qaoud

Alkama

2023

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“…An urban tissue or urban fabric is morphology of an area or neighbourhood with its buildings, open spaces, and functions of human activities [25]. Each neighbourhood or area has distinguishable patterns of buildings, spaces activities and variation in urban tissue or urban fabric with underlying urban design principles [26]. Identification of these principles is the outcome desired from urban morphological study of unplanned settlements [27].…”

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Integrated urban morphology approach to investigate urban design of Qambar Sindh

Khiani

2022

murjet

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Qambar city is the head quarter of Qambar-Shahdadkot district in Sindh province of Pakistan. The city is at latitude 27.5911425 and longitude 68.008461 or 27°35′28.1″N 68°00′30.5″E on the earth's surface. There is no published book or research paper available to describe the urban design and planning history of this city. The city has no comprehensive plan document to explain how conscious planning and urban design took place. No sequential records available about the formation and transformation of Qambar. Therefore, primary question explored in this paper i.e., how this city formed and transformed over the time with an integrated approach of urban morphology. The proposed approach is developed by integrating existing approaches of urban morphology developed internationally. The knowledge contribution of this paper is the novel approach of Integrated Urban Morphology for exploring undocumented and unplanned cities where no data available about the urban design, development, and planning history. To explain the usefulness of this approach the city of Qambar, Sindh, investigated and its brief findings are given in this paper. The value contribution of this research to industry, expected in the form of improvement in methodological approaches within the planning, development, and urban design professions. Vis-à-vis integrated urban morphology, remote urbanised settlements will be delved into with minimal professional expertise and financial, managerial resources to contribute merit towards urban planning, urban design, and urban development of uncharted urban contexts.

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Assessing the influence of neighborhood urban form on outdoor thermal conditions in the hot dry city of Biskra, Algeria

Qaoud,

Adel,

Sayad

et al. 2023

Ain Shams Engineering Journal

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The Role Of The Urban Fabric in Reducing of the physical loads for the environment applied Within The Free Space - Street-, For Saharan Cities, Case Study Of The City Of Biskra -Algerie

Cited by 4 publications

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Study on the Outdoor Comfort Threshold from Physical Loads: A Case Study in Biskra, Algeria

Study on the Outdoor Comfort Threshold from Physical Loads: A Case Study in Biskra, Algeria

Integrated urban morphology approach to investigate urban design of Qambar Sindh

Assessing the influence of neighborhood urban form on outdoor thermal conditions in the hot dry city of Biskra, Algeria

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