{"id":418,"date":"2017-08-10T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T17:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2017-08-10T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T17:43:53","slug":"climate-considerations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/plan-frameworks\/built-form-framework\/climate-considerations\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon University, like many universities across Canada,\u00a0has the greatest number of users primarily in the colder\u00a0months of the year. As such, the design of buildings must\u00a0consider creating comfortable, walkable environments to\u00a0mitigate the cold and wind, and also to enable the visual\u00a0experience of the colder seasons. The warmer seasons\u00a0also need to be considered such that the campus can\u00a0be enjoyed during hot and rainy seasons. The design of\u00a0buildings &#8211; scale, massing, height, orientation, materiality,\u00a0and transparency play a key role in creating comfortable\u00a0interior and exterior pedestrian environments throughout\u00a0the year. In addition, the Plan encourages indoor-outdoor\u00a0pedestrian circulation as a means of creating a healthy\u00a0campus environment.<\/p>\n<h3>Policies:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Buildings should be designed to allow for maximum\u00a0sunlight in the interior of buildings.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_419\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/files\/built23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/files\/built23-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/files\/built23-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/files\/built23-180x105.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/files\/built23-250x146.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/files\/built23.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Precedent: Canopies along pedestrian paths to provide weather protection<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Provide canopies at grade fronting streets and along\u00a0pedestrian passageways to protect from rain, snow,\u00a0and sun conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid the adverse affect of shade and shadowing of\u00a0open spaces that make spaces uncomfortable.<\/li>\n<li>Locate entrances in close proximity to each other\u00a0to allow for short distances between internal and\u00a0external movement during colder seasons.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid the use of upper level pedway connections\u00a0between buildings. This inhibits the socialization and\u00a0animation of the campus at the ground level.<\/li>\n<li>If building connections are deemed necessary, they\u00a0should be located at grade and should be open,\u00a0bright, and transparent to allow for the visual\u00a0experience of the outdoors and the orientation of\u00a0place.<\/li>\n<li>Design internal pedestrian corridors along the\u00a0building edges to allow for the visual experience\u00a0of the outdoors and the orientation of place. Social\u00a0gathering spaces and study spaces should be located\u00a0accordingly.<\/li>\n<li>Set back niches within south-facing building fa\u00e7ades\u00a0to create \u201csun traps\u201d, places that capture optimal sun\u00a0exposure.<\/li>\n<li>When using tall building heights, design narrow\u00a0towers to maximize solar penetration.<\/li>\n<li>Provide heated shelters and warming huts as places\u00a0of respite from the cold, particularly for waiting areas\u00a0such as in front of transit stops.<\/li>\n<li>Design buildings with breaks in frontages to provide\u00a0shelter from the wind.<\/li>\n<li>Internally, maximize solar access through roof\u00a0orientation, transparency, and the use of light wells.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon University, like many universities across Canada,\u00a0has the greatest number of users primarily in the colder\u00a0months of the year. As such, the design of buildings must\u00a0consider creating comfortable, walkable environments to\u00a0mitigate the cold and wind, and also to enable the visual\u00a0experience of the colder seasons. The warmer seasons\u00a0also need to be considered such that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420,"parent":369,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-418","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}