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Informing Microclimate for

Healthy Built Environments
Daniele Santucci
Prof. i. V. Dr.-Ing.
Architekt (BYAK)

Chair for Building Technology

RWTH Aachen University
Climateflux GmbH
Co-Founder and managing director

TUM
Climate Responsive Building I
December 15 2022

The Blue Marble, a

photograph of the planet
Earth made on
December 7, 1972 by the
crew of the Apollo 17
spacecraft.

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Beka Lemoine

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„We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and

suffering.“
J. Holdren
UN Climate Meeting 2007

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Source: Tucson Bicycle & Pedestrian Program

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Ambrogio Lorenzetti,
Allegory of Good Government,
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, 1338-40

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"What is a city but the people?”

W. Shakespeare, Coriolanus Act III. Scene I.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti,
Allegory of Good Government,
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, 1338-40

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Louis I. Kahn

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“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social

wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is
one of the fundamental rights of every human being without
distinction of race, religion, political belief or economic and
social condition.“
World Health Organization
1994

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Jason Larkin

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JOHNNY MILLER / MEDIADRUMIMAGES.COM

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CITIES

2%
OF THE EARTH CRUST

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2000

50%
OF THE WORLD POPULATION IS LIVING IN CITIES

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OF THE TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION

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R. Geiger
“Das Klima der bodennahen Schicht”
Munich 1927

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The layer of air within two meters of the ground, the noosphere, that is the most important of all
in Earth’s atmosphere. It is located in what meteorologists have come to call the
anthroposphere, nestled in the boundary layer, a turbulent, well-mixed zone at the very base of
the sublunar realm. This is a space in which the “natural” atmosphere gets entangled with
human energy. This is the anthropocentric layer is the interdisciplinary sphere of human affairs,
the most influential layer of our planet’s atmosphere. This layer has not been fully or even
adequately explored, which is unusual, since it is so accessible to us—as intimately close as our
next breath. Indeed, it has been consciously excluded from environmental analysis.”

Rodger Fleming, J., & Jankovic, V. (2011). Revisiting Klima. Osiris, 26(1), 1-15.

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T is air temperature (C)
MRT is mean radiant temperature
UTCI = 3.21 + (0.872 · t) + (0.2459 · MRT) – (2.5078 · V) – (0.0176 · RH) (C)
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Amman, Jordan
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SCHEDULE

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CASE STUDY
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Project management:
Moritz Dörstelmann (FibR GmbH),
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig, Lorenz Boigner,
Prof. Thomas Auer, Daniele Santucci

Design-Team:
Teodor Andonov, Andrea Fölbach, Carlo Guernier,
Luciano Majorano, Francesco Martini, Qiguan Shu, Björn
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ELYTRA FILAMENT PAVILION

an experimental pavilion which comprises of a modular robotically constructed canopy commissioned by

the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
a collaborative work between:
ICD (Institute for Computational Design, University of Stuttgart),
ITKE (Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design, University of Stuttgart),
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Climate analysis

AIR TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION

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“As architects, planners and urban theorists, we delight in approaching the

city in terms of its morphology. But morphology is not enough. It must be
unpacked, and the only way to unpack it through its dynamics.”

Michael Batty, Inventing Future Cities, MIT Press 2018

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Anthropocene
Thermal Comfort
Climate
Health
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