Phó Giáo sư NUS: chống lại biến đổi khí hậu bằng quy hoạch đô thị

Asst Prof Yuan (centre) together with his research team setting up a weather station atop the roof of a building at the Tanjong Pagar area in 2022.

Asst Prof Yuan, who is from the Department of Architecture under the NUS College of Design and Environment, began his journey at NUS in 2016. His research looks at urban planning and design to build cities that are sustainable and resilient to the effects of climate change. Together with his research team, they use numerical simulation and field measurements to study the impact of building design and urban planning on the microclimate.

His team also develops user-friendly urban planning tools, such as a Geographic Information System (GIS) tool to estimate the impact of urban planning on anthropogenic heat dispersion – heat released as a result of human activities.

One of Asst Prof Yuan’s most recent projects focuses on the coupling effects of climate change and urbanisation. In that project, his team demonstrated the importance of building design on the microclimate in the Tanjong Pagar area. Drawing comparison between two neighbouring communities with different building forms, they found that different building forms create very different microclimates, particularly the surrounding air temperature and wind flow.

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