Abstract Oasis settlements are the most common form in Saharan regions of North Africa, identified by a strong harmony between urban forms and palm groves, which present economic capital for these regions. On other hand, oases significantly growing impacting people’s livelihood thermal well-being, especially during summer season. This study aims at first to identify close correlation cultivated...

Abstract ‘Urban Open Space' is an essential component of the urban landscape. “Green spaces” connect built structures to outdoors through open spaces. Controlling thermal conditions such as air temperature and radiation in outdoor areas can help modify microclimates. This study attempts establish importance landscape by analyzing various microclimate parameters their impact on The focus this re...

This paper will outline a research project currently being undertaken at The University of Melbourne aimed at developing a dynamic model of architectural comfort. Much of the energy used in buildings goes to providing suitable levels of environmental provision – light, heat and air – for building occupants. In terms of thermal performance, the levels have been determined principally through res...

Increased urban air temperature considerably affects the health, comfort and consequently quality of life in spaces. Urban design planning studies, therefore, face an increasing challenge as they aim to improve Outdoor Thermal Comfort (OTC) microclimate conditions environments. Analysing OTC is more challenging when compared indoor thermal since a wider range interrelated parameters exists outd...

Climatic events in Mediterranean cities, such as heat waves, directly affect their inhabitants. As a result, outdoor thermal comfort urban spaces is gaining increasing research attention because it associated with the quality of life these cities. Significant improvements have been achieved adaptation buildings; however, similar level resilience to climate not observed spaces. This proposes qua...

background: hospital is a place to provide medical services. it is affected by noise pollution sources that can be associated with negative impacts on health and comfort status of the staff members and patients. the aim of this study was to measure noise levels in different wards of hospitals and to determine the irritation caused by noise among the hospital staff members in hamadan, iran. meth...