The Effect Of Street Design On Thermal Comfort (Case Study: Ferdowsi Street in Region 12 of Tehran)

The microclimate of urban open spaces is influenced by several factors such as urban morphology and geometry, urban density, vegetation, water level and surface characteristics. As more than a quarter of the urban areas are usually covered by streets, designing urban streets plays an important role in creating the urban climate. Among the influential and observable climatic elements in the thermal comfort of the streets, we can mention the wind flow.
The main goal of this study is to measure thermal comfort in the study area and to investigate the factors affecting the creation of thermal comfort with emphasis on wind flow, and for this purpose, strategies and solutions which are appropriate and applicable are presented in the area.
In this article, a part of Ferdowsi Street, between Ferdowsi Square and the intersection of Jomhuri Eslami, has been selected as a case study. Essential data were collected by field harvest in three days of June 1398 and modeled using ENVI MET software. In the results, we can see the effect of street geometry and vegetation on providing thermal comfort to pedestrians.