TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience
Research and Experimentation

Assessing climate change and urban heat island vulnerabilities in a built environment

Giacomo Chiesa
Dipartimento di Architettura e Design, Politecnico di Torino, Italia
Massimo Palme
Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad Católica del Norte, Cile
TECHNE 15 (2018): Architectural resilience

Published 2018-03-02

Keywords

  • urban heat island,
  • climate changes,
  • resilient buildings,
  • climate resilience indicators

How to Cite

Chiesa, G., & Palme, M. (2018). Assessing climate change and urban heat island vulnerabilities in a built environment. TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, (15), 237–245. https://doi.org/10.13128/Techne-22086

Abstract

A methodology is presented to assess local criticalities and resilience to climate changes (CC) and UHI (Urban Heat Island). This analysis will consider the expected impacts on the local energy demand of the built environment due to climate-related variations. Climate-related indicators are proposed to assess a vulnerability index to CC and UHI in specific building-design contexts. Furthermore, these indicators will be applied to a set of locations in the Mediterranean climate while taking into consideration different local contexts to evaluate the resilience of a sample residential building by using, among other strategies, dynamic energy simulations.

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