Recovering the Street Life in a Climate Changing World
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The urban space has become a hostile territory for citizens. As a consequence, the use of public space has been gradually reduced and currently there are numerous situations in which it has been reduced to a mere connection between buildings or to direct the movement of inhabitants from the building to the vehicles that are located. found in the parking areas.
It is essential to reconvert most of the urban space, currently intended for mobility, to dedicate it to the multiplication of uses and citizen rights, turning streets into places for coexistence.
The driving force of the Qanat Charterhouse project is to contribute decisively to turning the previous aspiration into a reality. Its motto is: “Recovering life in the street” and its proposal is the development of non-intrusive interventions in urban planning aimed at ensuring:
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the comfort of public spaces through the control of noise, air quality and thermal comfort.
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The attraction of public space through the implementation of basic services for residents; the diversity of legal entities and the presence of urban green.
The Termotecnia Group, directed by Professor Servando Álvarez Domínguez and within the framework of its research lines Characterization and Integration of Natural techniques, and Urban Climate – Outdoor Comfort, has developed and characterized a catalog of elements and solutions that allow climate control of open spaces. This catalog has allowed the Group to materialize the design, dimensioning and development of the Tomas Alva Edison Avenue pilot (PCT Cartuja, Seville) that allows achieving thermal comfort conditions in these open spaces even in the worst moments of the summer in Seville.
The idea gains even greater strength because activities in outdoor spaces take on an unusual role compared to those carried out in closed spaces. Even more so in the pilot space in which two rapidly growing faculties and different research centers converge. This would make it possible to create open classrooms in line with a new open campus concept. Pilot space that will be maintained by the entities Ayuntamento de Sevilla, Emasesa, PCT Cartuja and Universidad de Sevilla, for the main use of these entities. There the Termotecnia Group will have an urban laboratory to test climate control solutions for open spaces over the next 4 years.
