Impact of Green Wall and Roof Applications on Energy Consumption and Thermal Comfort for Climate Resilient Buildings

• DOI: 10.3390/urbansci9040105
• Publication Date: 2025-04-01T15:05:41Z
• Authors: Cihan Turhan; Cristina Carpino; Miguel Chen Austin; Mehmet Furkan Özbey; Gulden Gokcen Akkurt
• Keywords: Green roof; Green Building

Nowadays, reducing energy consumption and obtaining thermal comfort are significant for making educational buildings more climate resilient, sustainable, comfortable. To achieve these goals, a sustainable passive method is that of applying green walls roofs provide extra insulation, evaporative cooling, shadowing effect, the blockage wind on buildings. Therefore, objective this study to evaluate impact wall roof applications in an building. For purpose, university building Csb zone selected monitored during one year, as case study. Then, modelled well-calibrated dynamic simulation tool twenty-one different plant species, which mostly used roofs, applied envelope order determine reduction increase comfort. The Hedera canariensis gomera (an ivy species) due its aesthetic appeal, versatility, functional benefits while plants including Ophiopogon japonicus (Mando-Grass), Phyllanthus bourgeoisii (Waterfall Plant), Phoenix roebelenii (Phoenix Palm) simulated applications. results show deploying could simultaneously reduce by 9.31% 23.55% authors acknowledge solely based simulations high cost all scenarios, there inherent differences between real-world conditions. future work will be analysing scenarios real life. Considering limited studies effect species performance comfort, also contributes design strategies.