Abstract
One of the key objectives of contemporary urban design is to ensure the quality and activity within urban public spaces. Presented as a progressively emerging paradigm in this process, the effects of urban climatology are increasingly elucidating the need for further climate responsive environments. Moreover, this interest is one that shall increase along with the progression of climate change effects upon outdoor environments. Nevertheless, it is often that climatic assessments lack bottom-up climatic indicators, tools and practical benchmarks. As a result, this obstructs local decision making, and practices of localised adaptive design. In an effort to address such discrepancies, this paper launches a framework of international precedents of built and conceptual projects that address thermal comfort levels in public spaces. This organisation will be cross-referenced with theory that supports its structure and typological division. With Auckland as the focal case study, the solutions that are extracted from the framework will be scrutinised in order to shape new potential measures, and launch new considerations in Auckland’s local policy and design guidelines. In this way, microclimatic concerns are hence framed into an opportunity to potentiate the use and longevity of Auckland’s public realm.
Highlights
Before reaching the mid-twenty-first century milestone, it is expected that population, urban density and CO2 emissions shall significantly increase in Auckland
(3) Concrete pavements coloured with infrared reflective cool paints with albedo 0.78
This article has argued that there is sufficient existing knowledge to respond to the growing need for thermal comfort attenuation in Auckland
Summary
Before reaching the mid-twenty-first century milestone, it is expected that population, urban density and CO2 emissions shall significantly increase in Auckland. Buildings 2015, 5 making becomes fundamental in amalgamation with the council’s aim to make Auckland the world’s most liveable city by 2040 [1]. In conjugation with this expansion, the practice of urban design is presented with the interdisciplinary challenge of preparing for impending local “risk factors” as a result of climate change. Local decision makers and designers often lack the design indicators and benchmarks to: (1) address existing microclimatic implications in public space design; and more prominently; (2) prepare for the invigoration of these respective insinuations as a result of climate change.
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