Trees as a solar control measure for southern-oriented street frontages. Analysis of a selected street model for a humid continental climate

Katarzyna Zielonko-Jung; Justyna Janiak

doi:10.1007/s11252-021-01128-0

Trees as a solar control measure for southern-oriented street frontages. Analysis of a selected street model for a humid continental climate

Abstract

The present study is aimed at the analysis of possibilities for shading southern frontage of street oriented along the E-W axis by the single row of trees, parallel to the southern elevations. The effectiveness of solar control shading was tested depending on the geometric relationships between trees and buildings. Numerical simulation analyses were conducted in Rhinoceros® program for the street located in humid continental climate in city Płock, Poland (52°32′50 “N 19°42’00 “E), for the day of the highest degree of total solar radiation in the year i.e. June 7th, during hours: 8.00a.m - 5.00 p.m. The analysis has proved that a row of 20–25 year old Sycamore Maple ‘Rotterdam’ in the street 30 m wide and 18 m high (H/W = 0.6), can provide solar protection for the southern frontage, especially when trees are located no more than 4 m away. Location of greenery within the range of 4 to 5 m from the buildings leads to a radical reduction in the possibility of shading the wall surfaces (at 5 m to 0%). Over 90% of the shading area of the ground floor façade walls was found when trees were within the distance 2 and 3 m away from the building.

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Katarzyna Zielonko-Jung dr hab. inż. arch.
Justyna Janiak mrg inż. arch.

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Keywords

TREES . SHADING . SOLAR RADIATION . STREET CANYON . SUSTAINABLE PLANNING

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:: URBAN ECOSYSTEMS no. 25, pages 111 - 119,
ISSN: 1083-8155
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2022
Bibliographic description:: Zielonko-Jung K., Janiak J.: Trees as a solar control measure for southern-oriented street frontages. Analysis of a selected street model for a humid continental climate// URBAN ECOSYSTEMS -Vol. 25, (2022), s.111-119
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1007/s11252-021-01128-0
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