Abstract: Sun, Energy, Light, Temperature, Plantation, Climate change are subjects studied in different disciplines of astronomy, geophysics, thermodynamics, building physics, physical geography, archaeology, landscape ecology. However, in urban design they have to be combined with many other factors. How to make a partial integration of these subjects relevant for testing designs? This paper gives references to these disciplines and their suppositions simulated in applications to test designs at these subjects:

• ENERGY

• SUN, LIGHT AND SHADOW

• TEMPERATURE, GEOGRAPHY AND AND HISTORY

• PLANTATION

• CLIMATE CHANGE

• INTEGRATION IN DESIGN.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:

Engineer, PhD, professor; studies in urban design, ecology, regional design, methodology, philosophy, computer programming.

Academic positions
Chair ‘technical ecology and methodology’ (1986), chair ‘regional design’ shared with Schrijnen; department Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands.

Scientific activities
- Projects/research
Most recently:
Low-risk design scenario for the Turkish municipality of Adapazari, destroyed by Earthquake in 1999.

Earlier higlights:
Ecological comparison of urban extension plans Almere; Image quality plan Baarsjes Amsterdam; Environmental impact analyses; Regional scenarios Westland and The Netherlands; Energy and Windtunnel research; Urban Design Zwolle; PHD research ‘Environmental differentiation’ (1978).

- Publications/Education
Most recently:
‘Landscape ecology in the Dutch context: Nature, Town and Infrastructure’ chief editor and author (2007, 30 authors).

Earlier highlights:
‘Ways to Study urban, architectural and technical design’ chief editor and author (2002, 50 authors); decisive (1992): ‘Short methodology of study by design’; Many other publications downloadable from http://team.bk.tudelft.nl like extended lecture notes and computer programs on Sun, Wind, Water, Traffic, Earth, Life, Ecology, Living, Density, Methodology, Urban Design techniques.

- Formalities
Member of the Board for doctorates University of Technology Delft (TUDelft).

Chairman of more than 200 PHDsessions TUDelft.

Foundation day orator TUDelft (1995) ‘Systematic transformations in design and their impact’.

Others:
Secretary of the Royal Dutch Association for Field Biology (KNNV) Zoetermeer since 1992,
quarterly reporting the ecological development of this New Town as chief editor of its
local periodical.