UFT-ADI - Urban fabric types and microclimate response - assessment and design improvement.
Introduction
The study aims to investigate how the detailed urban morphology is likely to influence the changing urban climate, and to consider how appropriate mitigating solutions can be designed and tailored to suit different situations.
Using the city of Vienna as an example, the project covers three main objectives: a) the generation of typologies using GIS data and simulations, b) a research on different design variants and their impact on microclimate and c) the dissemination and discussion of the results leading to policy recommendation.
The project is being accompanied by an expert panel which comes together at the crucial intersections of the work packages and discusses and comments on the interim results.
Partner and Term
Vienna University of Technology, Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (Prof. DI. Richard Stiles)
Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH – AIT, Foresight & Policy Department (Dr. Wolfgang Loibl)
The project is funded from May 2011 to October 2011.
Funded by: Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit), within »ACRP 3rd Call« (Austrian Climate Research Programme)