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SUMMARY:Designing for Urban Microclimates: from Comfort Optimization to UH
 I Mitigation  - Professor André Potvin\, Laval University\, School of Arc
 hitecture Quebec City\, Canada
DTSTART:20130522T121500Z
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CONTACT:Mingfei Ma
DESCRIPTION:Urban microclimates are complex phenomenons that are seldom ta
 ckled at architecture level since they are falsely thought to belong to th
 e urban realm. However\, early decisions in the building morphology can ha
 ve major impacts on thermal and dynamic comfort of the pedestrians at stre
 et level.\nI will draw a portrait of my early interest in urban microclima
 tes prediction methodologies from a purely thermal comfort perspective lea
 ding to our current interdisciplinary research project on Urban Heat Islan
 d mitigation in Nordic cities. This project has highlighted the complexity
  for building professionals to understand the time dependent UHI effect an
 d\nthe lack in effective tools to tackle the interrelated microclimatic di
 mension in early design stages.\n
LOCATION:First-floor Classroom\, Department of Architecture
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