Urban climate adaptation: an interdisciplinary research experience empowering architecture and urbanism education

Author(s)

Silva Duarte, Denise Helena ; Teixeira Goncalves, Fabio Luiz

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: REVISTA DE ARQUITECTURA-BOGOTA; v. 24, n. 2, p. 10-pg., 2022-07-01.

Abstract

The world's cities are growing in size and number. At the same time, the global climate change rises global average temperatures as well as increase weather extreme events. Sao Paulo, the 5th urbanized region in the world, has currently more than 21 million inhabitants and recent studies alert for the increased frequency of extreme climate/weather events in the city. In this context, this work presents an interdisciplinary research experience, based at the Architecture and Urbanism school in partnership with the Atmospheric Sciences' Department, approaching the interdependencies between urban morphology, green infrastructure, and microclimate in Sao Paulo, aiming to discuss planning, urban and building design alternatives to counterbalance urban warming effects in a subtropical changing climate. The research team, led by an architecture researcher and an associate researcher from atmospheric sciences, includes a post-doc researcher, graduate and undergraduate students, engaging architecture, urban design, planning, and meteorology dealing with the role of planning, urban and building design for climate change adaptation. This paper briefly summarizes what we have learnt with remote sensing, measurements and numerical simulation encompassing the metropolitan, the neighbourhood and the building scales and discuss the results of an interdisciplinary research empowering architectural education in different levels. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/50978-0 - Impact of green infrastructure on microclimate as a strategy to mitigate urban warming and ameliorate the conditions for thermal comfort in open spaces
• Grantee: Paula Shinzato
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• FAPESP's process: 15/17360-5 - Impact of vegetation loss on urban microclimate: coupling of remote sensing studies and soil measurements.Subsidies for urban vegetation planning.
• Grantee: Luciana Schwandner Ferreira
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 16/02825-5 - The role of planning, urban and building design for climate adaptation in the microscale: contributions to an interdisciplinary approach
• Grantee: Denise Helena Silva Duarte
• Support Opportunities: Research Program on Global Climate Change - Regular Grants
• FAPESP's process: 16/01204-7 - 3D Parametrization of tropical vegetation and simulation of microclimatic effects for green infrastructure in the city of São Paulo
• Grantee: Paula Shinzato
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor