JAUE2018-039 The Study on Outdoor Pedestrian Thermal Comfort in Blocks:A Case Study of The DaoHe Old Street

Abstract

With the rapid development of the urbanization in China, more and more urban environment problems have appeared, global warming and heat island have affected our daily life seriously. The pedestrian block, famous for its entertainment and commercial vitality, plays an important role in our daily life. The use of this space is determined by the outdoor thermal comfort which can directly affect the person’s thermal sensation and commercial value. Few studies have been conducted on outdoor thermal comfort in hot-summer and cold -winter of southern China. So it’s necessary to do some research about the human’s thermal comfort of the pedestrian block in summer. The Daohe old block is in the city of Taizhou which locates in the hot-summer and cold-winter region of southern China. In order to develop the local tourism, the local government has provided guidance for the appropriate directions and opportunities for future development of this area. This study investigates the thermal comfort conditions in microclimate of the Taizhou old street and proposes some future plan for reconstructing this area. A three-dimensional microclimatic modelling tool Envi-met 4.0 is used to evaluate the outdoor thermal comfort and validate the accuracy of the software through comparing the measured data with the simulated data. This paper aims 
at putting forward some suggestion about reconstructing the block.