Conference Agenda

In this article, the WUDAPT methodology was applied to Metropolitan Regions (RM) in the state of São Paulo/Brazil. The objective was to identify the influence of the typologies of urban versus rural occupation for a region with predominantly agricultural characteristics. The state of São Paulo/Brazil has six Metropolitan Regions and the choice of these regions was due to their socioeconomic and technological importance and because there is a concentration of agroindustrial and urban areas. The scarcity of data on urban form/occupation and on the function of cities makes it difficult to understand the climatic conditions of occupied space. Analyses were carried out, based on mappings developed by supervised classification and by treatment of MODIS satellite images. These resulted in the LCZ - Local Climate Zone classification; the mapping of the annual average Land Surface Temperature and the Surface Heat Island, all for the year 2016. Significant differences in surface temperature were found in the RM of São Paulo and Ribeirão Preto, mainly due to the type of LCZ class, soil type, solar incidence and topographic differences. Thermal images can serve as indicators of anomalies present in the analyzed areas and, associated with the LCZ classification, can support the formulation of spatial planning guidelines.

Construction activities can lead to detrimental environmental effects and the industry is recognised as a high polluter. Adopting more sustainable construction practices should be the mission of all stakeholders. One way of decreasing negative environmental impacts is to enhance the lifecycle of building materials. The construction sector can considerably enhance its sustainability quotient by fostering more sustainable practices around the use of building materials. From another point of view, construction is responsible for a large amount of waste, since it utilizes energy and materials. The construction sector is by nature fragmented and diverse, so involves many different stakeholders with different abilities to influence outcomes. As there is much to be gained by a more effective and coordinated construction industry, this paper reports on an investigation into the roles different stakeholders can play in bringing about change. This paper addresses this complexity and tries to clarify roles and responsibilities of stakeholders.

This paper describes the study on method development (regression analysis model and genetic algorithm model) and shows the results of the preliminary tests. The proposed holistic building performance analysis allows analysing the transition of energy demand, and understanding the impact of energy efficiency improvement in the building sector driven by nZEB implementation. By applying Finnish statistic data as open data source, the feasibility and potential of analysis was studied. It is clarified that a room for improvement is remained, but both proposed methods have potentials to provide informative outputs for the future energy analysis.

The present context of climate change and concomitant water related design challenges necessitate architectural innovations to provide sustainable housing for rural low-income communities, particularly in developing countries that are vulnerable due to economic, political and socio-cultural factors. In the wake of the Tsunami in 2004, the Sri Lankan government faced the paradoxical situation of rebuilding communities devastated by the disaster and the potential to build environmentally resilient settlements. The Kirinda Tsunami Resettlement Project is one such example that served a minority community and attracted international awards for its innovative architectural designs. This paper analyses the Kirinda Project, as a part of a larger PhD research project which employs an archival and empirical research methodology to evaluate planning intentions and the reception of the housing projects in the context of economic liberalization in Sri Lanka. Thus, this paper considers the synergy between the existing cultural landscape and the new housing designs, with the aim to provide lessons for sustainable architectural design for smart and healthy housing within the 2-degree limit at the scale of the rural village.