New Concepts in Districts Planning, Based on Heat Island Investigation

This paper introduce the strategy of air heating process avoidance in heat island (HI) mitigation strategy in tropical city that should be more effective compared with those of cooling strategy. We had investigated that building material and building mass configuration both give significant influence to HI intensity. Based on the investigation we offer new concepts of district planning, namely 1) avoiding the hot air trapping effect in between building mass, and 2) controlling the use of heavyweight building material to avoid the effect of thermal reservoir.