Heat Resistant City
Sep 2021-Feb 2022
My contributions: Main Designer
Project Overview
Our project group is a multidisciplinary team, established to investigate and tackle the complex problem of a rapidly changing environment in the face of climate change. We did a case study in the city of Amersfoort where we investigated how to model the nighttime heating using Digital Twin technology. Although this study is focused on Amersfoort, the instructions and results of this research are universally applicable and meant for other Dutch municipalities as well. The findings of our research are published in this guidebook, which is also meant to instruct and inspire others to build upon our findings.
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Clients
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1.
Sprint 1
Research Phase
Our project considered SDGs especially, Climate Action, Sustainable Cities and Communities, and Good Health and Well-Being.
Since this topic was quite a vast one, it was necessary to specify and narrow down the topic in order to set the direction of the project's progress. We got immersed into the topic by receiving master class of Dr. Jeroen Kluck on the topic of UHI (Urban Heat Island) effects.
We installed and understood the basic functionalities of TYGRON which is a software for heat stress model that we should check and use during whole process of the project.
Besides, we investigated the availability of "open-source" weather data and installed a weather station on this phase.
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Sprint 2
Our team worked on technical briefing by Tygron, Collection of KNMI datasets and local data sources, creating Heat Stress Overlay and Urban Heat Island Overlay for selected period, and Ideation and prototyping of storyline.
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Sprint 3
In this Sprint, we had a technical briefing by the partners.
Below, are the tasks we did during this Sprint;
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Data analysis of available datasets
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Creating additional overlays in Tygron
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Creating a prototype of a website
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Translate session with a motion designer for feedback on the video
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Creating a draft of the guidebook
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Final Product
During the project, we focused on storytelling and getting awareness for people who don't have much information about UHI effects and what it is going on in the heating of the urban area, especially at night. So, our final products are short video for expediting attention and providing information in an effective way. There are English and Dutch version which is aiming not only dutch people get awareness, but also people in the world.
If you want to check the full contents out, you can download it.
English version of video
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Sprint 4
Prototype of guidebook and video
We had the massive burden of transforming technical terms into layman's language about the idea of a heat-resilient city.
Besides, we believed storytelling that is the practice that helps in delivering complex context to citizens.
The reason are why we planned to intend to raise awareness by making a short documentary or video and guidebook.
Therefore, our team started to collect the data that we need to include the guidebook and video. Immediately, we started writing the guidebook, and we received feedback in-between and repeated modifications to create the guidebook based on accurate data that everyone could understand without background knowledge in this field.
In this sprint, I started editing videos using Adobe Premiere Pro, and I was also able to experience voiceover myself for the draft video.
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Dutch version of video