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The community as a gated community provides a good level of safety as one of the livability
requirements [4]. On the other hand, the only one access through the Emirates Road indicated some
weakness in accessibility, which could be enhanced and optimized by providing more than one access
to improve transition and movement (Figure 3).
Figure 3. The community land use with CityCAD analysis [5].
3.2. Assessing Environmental and Solar Performance in the Existing Case Study
Environmentally, the community was analyzed using the IES‐VE software. The environmental
performance of the community could be improved through increasing green areas and planting
empty/uncultivated areas, which are about 35% of the community landscape area (Figure 4).
Figure 4. Uncultivated areas in the community.
Analysis of the community sun path and unit orientation showed that only 40% of the units are
extended along the East‐West axis. The benefits of the orientation along the East‐West axis is to get a
minimum solar exposure as the long facade is facing the North‐South axis. The IES‐VE software was
used to analyze the community shading performance and solar gains through the SunCast application.
Figure 5 shows the community layout orientation and the sun path on a summer day, 1st of June.
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