Coated building envelope materials in the context of urban heat and noise islands

Sarul M., Koçyiğit F. B., Yılmaz Ç.

14. International Congress on Engineering, Architecture and Design, İstanbul, Türkiye, 28 - 29 Aralık 2024, ss.1

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İstanbul
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The increasing population in cities has led to several significant environmental issues affecting human health . The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, caused by anthropogenic activities, contributes to global warming, while the same activities also give rise to the Urban Noise Island (UNI). These two major environmental and social issues are often found together in the same area due to factors such as building and traffic density, design-construction-usage errors, and uncontrolled growth.Analyses targeting the reduction of the UNI are comparatively limited when compared to the anaylses targeting the reduction of UHI effect. A literature review reveals very few articles examining both the UHI and UNI simultaneously. This work aims to contribute a perspective that addresses both issues concurrently by exploring multifunctional smart materials providing solutions to both problems. Initially, the current material alternatives for mitigating the UHI and UNI issues will be described, followed by an investigation into which materials can be utilized to alleviate these two problems based on properties such as solar reflectivity and sound absorption coefficients. Although the impacts of UHI and UNI are significant concerns, they are typically addressed only in the final stages of design. This paper primarily seeks to optimize building materials for reducing UHI and UNI at the very beginning of the design process; in the building envelope material selection phase.