Urban Fabric + Microclimate

The interdisciplinary project "Urban fabric types and microclimate response - assessment and design improvement" has been conducted by a consortium of 3 operating partners: AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology, Research Unit of Landscape Architecture and Planning (Vienna TU) and Department of Strategic Landscape Planning and Management (Munich TU). The study aimed to investigate how the detailed urban morphology is likely to influence the changing urban climate, and to consider how appropriate mitigating solutions can be designed and tailored to suit different situations.

Using the city of Vienna as an example, the project covered three main objectives:
a) the generation of typologies using GIS data and simulations,
b) a research on different design variants and their impact on microclimate and
c) the dissemination and discussion of the results leading to policy recommendation.

The project has been accompanied by an expert panel which came together at the crucial intersections of the work packages and discussed and commented on the interim results.

Final report

• Urban Fabric