Abstract
The thermal environment of village public space affects the comfort of people ' s outdoor activities, and then affects the willingness of residents to outdoor activities, which has an important impact on the villagers' quality of life. Previously published studies of thermal comfort mostly focused on the evaluation of thermal comfort index, few studies on the application of thermal comfort planning. The study was carried out in Maling Village, Changdai Town, Mengjin County, Luoyang City, Henan Province, China. Square, street, green space were chosen as three typical public spaces where thermal comfort indexes were measured by questionnaire survey and field measurement during summer. Subsequently, the village's microclimate environment was simulated with ArcGIS 10.6 and ENVI-met. The results indicate that during the summer, the influences of temperature, solar radiation, wind speed, and relative humidity on the subjective comfort conditions of the outdoor environment gradually decreased. The spatial form of village has an important influence on thermal comfort. Finally, based on the results, this study put forward the thermal comfort process and planning scheme of the village outdoor space.
Highlights
Half the world’s population lives in rural areas [1], the outdoor spaces of which have great functional importance in the residents’ lives
On working days during the summer, villagers prefer to perform outdoor activities in the morning and evening because solar radiation is weaker during those times
The results show that lining a given street with trees and buildings can effectively reduce the impact of solar radiation
Summary
Half the world’s population lives in rural areas [1], the outdoor spaces of which have great functional importance in the residents’ lives. Rapid urbanisation has disturbed the rural outdoor environment [2]. Rural planning has primarily considered spatial layout, culture, ecology, and other village functions [3, 4]. The state of thermal comfort in the village outdoor space is bad, which has lowered villagers’ willingness of outdoor activities [5,6,7]. Thermal comfort, as the most direct reflection of the human body to environment, has quickly become a hot spot in the study of microclimate outdoor [8]. Studies of thermal comfort conditions can be traced back to the 1930s [9].
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