Authors : Khaled Al-Omary and Muna Alsukkar
Abstract: Green wall is a promising technology and a new design strategy for sustainable building, considered a solution for modifying the urban microclimate and mitigating urban heat island by minimizing the continuous rising temperature in city cores and dense areas, the space available for greening is very limited and green wall can be applied to the exterior facades of the buildings. The study aims to provide with the impacts of the green wall thermal performance for building in dense area of Amman like the University of Jordan Street-Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Street and count thermal advantages bring by green wall system in comparison to the existing conventional system, the study suggests a green wall building facade design for the existing buildings front of the main gate of university of Jordan side of mixed use building, based on the computer simulation results for the existing construction. The results indicated that the effect of green wall on the building facade succeeds in lowering the urban heat island effects and enhancing comfort at the urban level, reducing the external temperature in dense urban areas, this could be generalized to dense areas where the climatic conditions and building characteristics are quite similar to the study area in this study.
Khaled Al-Omary and Muna Alsukkar, 2017. The Potential of Applying Green Wall in Dense Urban Areas Case Study-University of Jordan Street. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 9352-9358.