🥵 No shade 🌤 Cool breeze 💡 Needs trees PHYSICAL THERMAL SOCIAL NARRATIVE
🥵 "No shade on Damrak. The pavement radiates heat back at you." +12 agrees
🌤 "Canal breeze and tree canopy make this spot comfortable." +15 agrees
💡 "This square needs water features and more trees." +9 agrees
Urban Climate Research Platform
your climate companion
A city is more than its geometry.
Behind every building, street, and square, there are people navigating invisible thermal landscapes. cliMATE makes them visible.
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Satellites measure heat.
But who measures discomfort?
A 34°C pixel on a satellite image cannot capture the relief of stepping into tree shade, or the unbearable radiance of a sun-baked square. The gap between what sensors measure and what bodies feel is where cliMATE begins.
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Urban Heat Island
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Every dot is a person.
Every person has a story.
What if we could hear the city through the voices of those who walk it, feel it, and live it every day? cliMATE bridges big data and thick data to reveal the city as it is truly experienced.
RIVM UHI CBS Buurten Space Syntax KEA Shadow Citizen Reports Street Imagery
Three ways of knowing.
cliMATE integrates three epistemological layers at every point in the city.
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Measured
UHI grids, CBS statistics, shadow analysis. What instruments record.
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Seen
Street View, Mapillary, aerial imagery. What eyes observe.
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Felt
Thermal comfort, citizen narratives, lived experience. What bodies feel.
Ask the city a question.
An embedded AI assistant lets you converse with the city's collective thermal intelligence. Ask about hot spots, cool refuges, what citizens experienced, or where sensor data and lived experience diverge.
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cliMATE Assistant
Collective thermal intelligence
"Why is Damrak so hot?" → 12 citizens reported discomfort. UHI shows +4.2°C. Sun mentioned 75% of the time. The city's voice and its data, synthesized.
Where do you want to listen?
The same street, the same sun, but never the same experience.
Mert Akay
PhD Researcher · TU Delft · Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering
keep in touch → m.a.akay@tudelft.nl
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