"Singapore Hot, Singapore Cool" in Phys.org
Phys.org featured Christophe Girot's three-month long seminar which saw his students from ETH develop design solutions for the UHI effect along the Green Corridor in Singapore.
"Singapore Hot, Singapore Cool" was a three-month long seminar led by Prof Christophe Girot in hopes of providing his students with an experience to better understand the growing problem of urban heat island (UHI) effect. As part of the seminar, 14 ETH Masters and Bachelors students from ETH's Chair of Landscape Architecture visited Singapore on a study trip to better understand the growing problem of UHI.
The article in Phys.org, external pageSweating for a cooler Singapore featured the study trip as covered in ETH News. The study trip to Singapore was coordinated by Philipp Urech from FCL's Ecosystem Services in Urban Landscapes (ESS) project, together with three other teaching assistants. Prof Girot is one of the Co-Principal Investigators of the ESS research in Singapore.
Working alongside students in Singapore from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the students created three-dimensional point cloud models of the Green Corridor to map its topography and characterstics, and designed interventions to combat Singapore’s UHI effect. These proposed interventions were then presented in FCL at the end of the 10-day joint workshop in Singapore. A group of SUTD students also presented their final designs in Zurich on 29 May at the ETH Department of Architecture's week of Final Critiques.