Effect of Shading Level and Thermal Environment on People's Attendances and Behaviors in A Park

Autor: Ying-Che Huang, 黃英哲
Rok vydání: 2011
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 99
Formerly, the investigation about outdoor thermal comfort and people’s attendances most concentrated in the temperate zone of Europe. All results hereof are shown weather index and people’s attendances will show a positive correlation. Those researches were most conducted against single square or park to carry out the people’s attendances investigation, but no research tried to realize whether it would further produce the relative difference of microclimate and people’s attendances because different spatial patterns in the park. Therefore, this study takes Taiwan in hot and wet climate area as subject, selecting a multi-function urban park which was divided into nine points, to carry out the measurement of physical environmental factors, observation of people’s attendances and questionnaires. The research was made excluding rain days, large-scale performing activities and festivals. The results of research are shown the neutral temperature is 25.9℃PET in cool season and 27.2℃PET in hot season. Respondents’expectations to climate are various in different seasons. Respondents with high autonomy have ±1.5 mean thermal sensation votes (MTSVs), and respondents without autonomy have ±2 MTSVs. Respondents without autonomy have much lower tolerance to climate than respondents with high autonomy. All of those results prove people’s thermal adaptation. In addition, it was found in the research that each point in the park, subject to different types of usage (shading level, types of regional activities), microclimate and people’s attendances will show different patterns of relationship; in low shading Outdoor Auditorium and Children Playground, it shows the higher PET temperature, the less people’s attendances in hot season, and the higher PET temperature, the more people’s attendances in cool season. As for the low shading Sport Central Square, there was no correlation between PET temperature and people’s attendances in cool season. In hot season, it shows the higher PET temperature, the less people’s attendances. In High shading Shade Trail and Shade Tree, it shows the higher PET temperature, the more people’s attendances in both hot and cool seasons. In addition, with raining PET temperature, people’s attendances under shade will increase largely. The results could provide a reference for future design of park. In some spaces of temperature-people’s attendances with high correlation, it must consider the problems of microclimate in order for the space to increase people’s attendances and satisfaction of thermal environment.
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