24- Thermal Comfort-

Methods of Thermal Comfort

1. Shade- Creating shade for radiation to reflect or protect. This can come in the form of manmade and natural materials.

2. Water- Still and/or running water in an area can help cool a space by a few degrees. 

3. Green Walls- Walls of vegetation through green cladding and climbing plants. This helps prevent buildings retain heat and stops heat from reflecting onto multiple surfaces disrupting the path of infrared radiation.

4. Cooling Mists- Mists of water sprayed into paths for people to walk through to offer thermal comfort. However, the thermal comfort is only brief until the water evaporates.

5. Wind Corridors- Using a mixture of vegetation and angling buildings and infrastructure to create a corridor for the wind to pass through and cool that particular area, the buildings surrounding and the corridor itself. Spain has implemented these corridors in Barcelona to help cool the city using the sea breeze in conjunction with green corridors

6. Wind Catcher- Technology developed over 100 years ago. Towers with 4 sides with 2 sides for the wind to go in and 2 sides for the wind to come out. The wind is pulled into the tower and brought to an underground stream or into a vegetated area with water to cool the air then reverted back up once cooled. It's based on the idea of warm air rising to move the warm air up and away. It can cool a site by up to 12 degrees

7. Vegetation, can cool a space since it creates shade and cools the air through transpiration.

A combination of these methods works most effectively.