Print Email Facebook Twitter LIVING WALL SYSTEM Title LIVING WALL SYSTEM: As a strategy to mitigate the Urban Heat Island effect in Damascus Author Idrees, Lama (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor Prieto Hoces, A.I. (mentor) Ottele, M. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology Date 2021-09-14 Abstract Urbanization has led to the accumulation of heat in urban areas. In other words, cities demonstrate higher temperatures than surrounding rural suburbs, known as the Urban Heat Island effect (UHI). This phenomenon has substantial consequences on energy consumption for cooling purposes, air quality, and human health.As a metropolitan city, Damascus experiences a high urban heat island effect due to many factors. The intensity of UHI in Damascus is high and could reach 10˚C. Therefore, a mitigation strategy is a necessity.A possible solution could be integrating the Living wall system (LWS) into the built environment. However, the living wall system’s implementation is still limited due to different factors such as the high initial cost, the complexity of the system, and technical difficulties. Furthermore, the efficiency of this system in mitigating the urban heat island still needs to be further investigated.Thus, this research focuses on analyzing the UHI effect, designing LWS for Damascus’s context, and then investigating the proposed design’s efficiency as a UHI mitigation strategy Subject Urban Heat Island, Living Wall System, Damascus, Outdoor thermal comfort, Urban canyon, Mitigation strategy, Giant reed, micro climate To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:72e97ab6-d817-4e2c-af51-fd7680994bd9 Coordinates 33.510414, 36.278336 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Lama Idrees Files PDF Lama_Idrees_Student_numbe ... _final.pdf 42.72 MB PDF Lama_Idrees_Student_numbe ... tation.pdf 10.7 MB PDF Graduation_plan_P2.pdf 670.23 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:72e97ab6-d817-4e2c-af51-fd7680994bd9/datastream/OBJ2/view