EVALUATING THE THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF URBAN SPACES IN ASWAN CITY “A CASE STUDY OF SAAD ZAGHLOUL STREET

Abstract

The phenomenon of climate change is one of the biggest challenges for the world in the comingyears. This phenomenon will affect many cities in Egypt such as Aswan city. The poor thermalperformance and the thermal discomfort in urban spaces of Aswan city during the summer periodare considered as the main problem of this paper. This problem may be more complicated in thefuture due to the phenomenon of climate change and its various effects such as increasing oftemperature in urban spaces. So this paper aims to evaluate the thermal performance of one of thoseurban spaces as a first step towards achieving the best condition of thermal comfort in these urbanspaces by 2020. This goal will not be achieved without improving the thermal performance of theseurban spaces through using various climate control strategies. Also it will not be achieved withoutredirecting urban designers towards the study of the phenomenon of climate change and its potentialimpact and put them into consideration when designing their urban spaces. Simulation programswere used to achieve this goal. Also analytical method was used for the analysis of the results thatare obtained through simulation software “Autodesk Simulation CFD 2013”, Thermal ComfortIndex Calculator and “Ccworldweathergen” program.