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Parisa Kloss

http://www.rupd.de

Bonn, Germany
She is a trained architect and urban planner with more than 15 years of experience. She is Founder and CEO of Resilient Urban Planning and Development (RUPD) GbR in 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Parisa was a post-doctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Institute für Meteorologie and holds a PhD in urban climate with focus on ''urban heat island'' from The National University of Malaysia. She studied her Master and Bachelor in architecture in Iran.

Call for ideas 2021

OASIS Abu Dhabi


OASIS Abu Dhabi


A public space to mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect and provide thermal comfort for the citizens
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Type of project
  • Systemic changes

Due to rapid urban development, recent architectural designs have paid very little attention to the extreme local climatic conditions leading to the UHI effects, air pollution and over-generation of GHG and increasing the health risk. The cities need to adapt to climate change, to avoid multiple challenges in the future. Thus, the designed structure aims to interrupt microclimate changes in the urban canyon through its shape and characteristics, decrease the anthropogenic heat and energy consumption in the surrounding buildings. We created a small cool island by providing shadow and blocking the solar radiation through greenery and the shape of the entire structure as well as using natural and high albedo materials. The hollow and prefabricated structure has also the potential to be replicated in various urban areas. This can provide plenty of urban Oases and lungs to let the city breathe, cool down and move towards urban climate change resilience.



OASIS Abu Dhabi


OASIS Abu Dhabi


A public space to mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect and provide thermal comfort for the citizens
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

Due to rapid urban development, recent architectural designs have paid very little attention to the extreme local climatic conditions leading to the UHI effects, air pollution and over-generation of GHG and increasing the health risk. The cities need to adapt to climate change, to avoid multiple challenges in the future. Thus, the designed structure aims to interrupt microclimate changes in the urban canyon through its shape and characteristics, decrease the anthropogenic heat and energy consumption in the surrounding buildings. We created a small cool island by providing shadow and blocking the solar radiation through greenery and the shape of the entire structure as well as using natural and high albedo materials. The hollow and prefabricated structure has also the potential to be replicated in various urban areas. This can provide plenty of urban Oases and lungs to let the city breathe, cool down and move towards urban climate change resilience.




Idea by

Parisa Kloss
Bonn
Germany
She is a trained architect and urban planner with more than 15 years of experience. She is Founder and CEO of Resilient Urban Planning and Development (RUPD) GbR in 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Parisa was a post-doctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Institute für Meteorologie and holds a PhD in urban climate with focus on ''urban heat island'' from The National University of Malaysia. She studied her Master and Bachelor in architecture in Iran.