Microclimate Optimization of School Campus Landscape Based on Comfort Assessment

The outdoor wind environment and thermal environment are important factors affecting human comfort in cold winter conditions. The spatial layout of plant communities plays an important role in improving the outdoor microclimate and improving outdoor comfort. In order to explore the positive effect of plant layout on outdoor comfort in cold winter, this study took Xuzhou Tangfang Middle School with typical layout characteristics as the research object. In this study, we simulated the wind environment of these models using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods and the outdoor thermal environment using Ecotect (2011), and used linear regression and one-way ANOVA for mathematical statistics. The wind environment and Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) of campus outdoor activities distributed in different spaces were analyzed and evaluated. The research results showed that the superposition of wind and thermal environments identified the key areas of the campus (cross-flow area and corner flow area) and showed a negative correlation. The staggered layout of the three plant combinations increases the wind prevention efficiency by 39.4%. At the same time, this study established the linkage mechanism of campus plant layout, environmental microclimate, and activity area comfort, which effectively improved outdoor human comfort in cold winter. This research can provide a reference for the remediation and improvement of the comfort of the same type of campus, and also provide data support and reference significance for the research on the outdoor pedestrian environment in winter.

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