| dc.contributor.author | Horvath, Nathaniel | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study addresses two major issues by responding to the significant decline in retail
buildings including enclosed shopping malls and improving density, livability and human
comfort in communities welcoming climate refugees. Future designs will become more
responsive when involving suburban and urban infill landscape to enhance user experiences
through thermal comfort.
Studies show that Earth’s temperatures are on the rise causing large populations to
be displaced by rising sea levels and contributing to extreme weather patterns in the colder
hemispheres. Specifically, in the Midwest United States, this means colder temperatures, more
snow, and longer months of winter (Cohen 2018).
Analyzing microclimates to improve thermal comfort will give designers a better
understanding of the link between human thermal comfort and their surrounding infill
landscape. Because shopping malls have generalizable locations and footprints and a nearly
identical hierarchy of ingress and egress locations, they are ideal for this type of microclimate
analysis using climate data. These generalized footprints are becoming dead space in smaller
cities leaving large unused parking lots which have the potential to positively serve these
communities through various climate events, specifically polar vortexes. This study aims to
mitigate extreme cold weather events through microclimate design by examining various site
configurations with the use of data collection such as wind speed, temperature, and humidity.
A Thermal Sensation Vote (TSV) was calculated to determine which configurations are best for
thermal comfort (Wong 2015). | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU policy 190.6.2 | en_US |
| dc.title | Climate Refuge: Thermal Comfort in Urban Micro Climates | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.type | Image | en_US |
| dc.type | Video | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-25T05:58:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-25T05:58:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31522 | |
| dc.subject | Urban Microclimate | en_US |
| dc.subject | Polar Vortex | en_US |
| dc.subject | Climate Responsive Urban Design | en_US |
| dc.subject | Thermal Comfort | en_US |
| dc.subject | Microclimatology | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Buildings -- Retrofitting. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Shopping malls. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Mixed-use developments. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Landscape architecture -- Climatic factors. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fergus Falls (Minn.) | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Minnesota. | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | en_US |
| ndsu.degree | Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences | en_US |
| ndsu.department | Architecture and Landscape Architecture | en_US |
| ndsu.program | Landscape Architecture | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Fischer, Dominic | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Song, Yang | en_US |
