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van Lierde, Simon (author)
Despite The Hague's historically mild climate, it is experiencing rising temperatures and more frequent heatwaves, resulting in a growing demand for space cooling. However, there is a significant gap in research and sustainable policies to address this demand in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. While studies have examined the...
master thesis 2024
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Absalan, Faezeh (author), Hatam, Fatemeh (author), Blokker, E.J.M. (author), Besner, Marie Claude (author), Prévost, Michèle (author), Bichai, Françoise (author)
Urbanization increases the land surface temperature through surface mineralization, adversely affecting vegetation and enhancing the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Global climate change has intensified this warming effect with more frequent and intense heatwaves during hot seasons. While these transformations influence soil temperature,...
journal article 2024
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Snijders, Kevin (author)
Urban areas often experience temperature imbalances, resulting in higher temperatures than their rural surroundings, known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. This effect has adverse consequences such as heightened heat-related morbidity and mortality, amplified energy demands, aggravated water scarcity, and diminished urban living comfort....
master thesis 2023
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Diepens, Huub (author)
Climate change is one of the most pressing matters our society faces. As a result, temperatures are rising across the globe. This effect is especially prevalent in urban areas, where artificial surfaces such as pavements are abundant and vegetation scarce. This effect is called the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHI). Another issue that is caused by...
master thesis 2023
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Verhoeven, Cas (author)
The urban heat island effect is a well-known and pressing problem in cities today related to urbanisation. It is the phenomenon of an increased ambient air temperature in cities compared to the surrounding rural areas. The use of nature-based solutions has been proposed as a way to help solve this problem. These interventions use nature and...
master thesis 2023
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Han, Ailin (author)
The urban heat island effect refers to increased temperatures in highly developed urban areas and has negative impact for human activities and the social environment. This project aims to address this effect by integrating urban forests into the cityscape, while enhancing the living experience of residents.<br/><br/>The project focuses on...
master thesis 2023
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van der Velde, J.R.T. (author), de Wit, S.I. (author), Pouderoijen, M.T. (author)
As the elementary unit of the urban forest, trees temper thermal extremes in urban microclimates through shading and evapotranspiration, and by altering the movement of air. Metrics on shade performances of different species, however, are currently limited, which can be remedied by the development of a method to describe the range of species and...
journal article 2023
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Pille, Julia (author), Verhaeghe, Carmel (author)
With the Urban Heat Island Effect on the rise and 66% of the global population expected to live in the cities by 2050, new ways of building for this urban growth need to be researched. In this report the cooling effects of green and water structures on urban landscapes are examined. To realize this, we opted to recreate a 3D model of the chosen...
student report 2022
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Hofman, Jasmijn (author)
This graduation thesis looks at the possibilities of <br/>densification in the city without having negative effects on the thermal comfort in the micro climate. During warm periods heat stress arises in the micro climate. Heat stress is the stress on the human body caused by a large heat load. People suffering from heat stress experience <br/...
master thesis 2022
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Stache, E. (author), Schilperoort, B. (author), Ottele, M. (author), Jonkers, H.M. (author)
The urban heat island, is a serious threat for the urban well-being, and can be determined by the local energy balance. The surface energy balance, with respect to incoming radiative energy and subsequent partitioning into reflected energy (albedo), absorbed energy and further partitioning of latter into convectional heat (QH), radiative heat ...
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Yang, Jinxin (author), Shi, Qian (author), Menenti, M. (author), Xie, Yanhua (author), Wu, Zhifeng (author), Xu, Yong (author), Abbas, Sawaid (author)
Vegetation is important for urban heat mitigation. The cooling intensity of vegetation is affected by background climate and urban design. How to evaluate vegetation cooling efficiency under different climate conditions is still an issue open to discussion. In this study, a normalized indicator of urban vegetation cooling efficiency (NVCE) is...
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Idrees, Lama (author)
Urbanization has led to the accumulation of heat in urban areas. In other words, cities demonstrate higher temperatures than surrounding rural suburbs, known as the Urban Heat Island effect (UHI). This phenomenon has substantial consequences on energy consumption for cooling purposes, air quality, and human health.<br/>As a metropolitan city,...
master thesis 2021
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Kool, Thijs (author)
To reduce the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect Green Infrastructure (GI) is seen as a key measure. Though, often the need for water to evaporate is neglected. This study focuses on showing the effects of irrigation and increased soil moisture contents on GI within urban areas to reduce the UHI-effect. ENVI-met, a micro-climate model, is used to...
master thesis 2021
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Adema, Sasha (author)
Giving a second life to De Knip building in Amsterdam with a more altruistic approach. Going from a monofunctional office area to a nature-inclusive lively neighborhood. Creating a building that not only supports its own ecosystem, but at the same time forms a valueable addition to the urban quality of the neighborhood. My thematic research is...
master thesis 2021
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KOUKELLI, CHRISTINA (author)
Kinetic responsive systems are gaining attention in architectural applications, to help reduce the building’s energy consumption and environmental impact, while improving the indoor comfort conditions. The thesis explores the potentials of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) for the design of autoreactive facade systems without using additional energy....
master thesis 2021
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Groeneveld, Bart (author)
The Urban Heat Island effect increases the air temperature in cities compared to rural areas because cities have a lot more hardened surfaces than rural areas. As the amount of people living in cities increases and the global air temperatures rise, these negative effects will increase and mitigation action has to be taken. This research...
master thesis 2021
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van Hamel, Amber (author)
A green-blue roof consists of a water storage layer with on top a substrate layer covered with vegetation. Due to the presence of the water storage layer, a green-blue roof is better capable of retaining heavy rain events. A movable valve makes it possible to manage the amount of water on the roof and the timing of drainage from the roof to the...
master thesis 2021
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Wang, Zian (author), Meng, Qingyan (author), Allam, Mona (author), Hu, Die (author), Zhang, Linlin (author), Menenti, M. (author)
Nowadays urban climate is a global problem and many studies focused on understanding the relation between urban climate the built-up space using radiometric observations of the land surface temperature to estimate and monitor the surface urban heat island intensity (SUHIs). In this study MODIS land surface temperature (LST) data were used....
journal article 2021
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Koukelli, Christina (author), Prieto Hoces, A.I. (author), Așut, Serdar (author)
The paper explores the potentials of shape memory alloys (SMAs) for the design of autoreactive façade systems without using additional external energy. The exploration is conducted and assessed through the design of a façade concept for the city of Athens in Greece, aiming to improve both the indoor and outdoor environment by means of a kinetic...
journal article 2021
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Marcal Terreri, Lucas (author)
In order to study the effects of Urban Heat Island and the possibilities of combating it with Vegetation Cooling, this thesis project proposes the use of available tools/information in Building Information Modelling. By building on an empirically validated model for the calculation of UHI, this project undertakes the translation of that model...
master thesis 2020
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