Microclimates: Managing Weather from Street to Street
Microclimates: Managing Weather from Street to Street
April 28, 2011
Green buildings need to take their surrounding environment Researchs into consideration, too.
Microclimates created by buildings can cause the weather to changes from block to block in a city, reports Alan S. Brown for the Inside Science News Service.
Evyatar Erell, a professor of architecture at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev says, “Even when architects design a green building, it may not make the best use of the environment Research because other buildings get in the way.”
Erell is the lead author of a new book, Urban Microclimate: Designing the Spaces Between Buildings, that shows how to apply climatology to create greener, more livable cities. He was part of the achitecture and planning team that created Neve Zin, the first Israeli community designed to take into account its own microclimate.
Neve Zin was specifically design to accommodate summer daytime temperatures above 100 degrees, much cooler nights, and winter frosts. Home were built with large southern windows. These let in the low winter sun and passively heat the house. During summers, residents close the window’s external blinds to block the sun and prevent overheating.
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