The Rampart, The Traffic Artery, and the Park; Designing for the city regions of Antwerp

2 o C
3,5 o C
3 o C
3,5 o C
4 o C
2,5 o C
2 o C
3 o C
The map clearly
shows the cooling
effect the green
radials have on
the city.
2 o C
3 o C
2,5 o C
On average the inner-city of Antwerp is 4 o C
hotter than the rural areas around it. With climate
change and heat waves becoming more and more
frequent, this will increasingly become a problem.
The heat island effect is created by a lot of
factors. Cities retain more heat partly due to their
increased density and building height; heat
cannot escape at night as easily as it does in the
countryside. Cities also have a lot more
movement that generates heat (mainly cars) and
often less vegetation that could provide cooling.
This drawing shows the first four layers of a heat
island projection performed by the Flamish 193
Institute of Technological Research in 2015