The effect of climate changes on the external environment of a project social housing and protection methods to achieve quality of life

Abstract

Climate change is a global phenomenon, whereas its effects at the local level are diverged due to the sensitivity of the environmental systems in sub-regions. Islam has been keen to deepen the concept of preserving the environment. In the noble Quran Allah said: “And cause not corruption upon the earth after its reformation. And invoke Him in fear and aspiration. Indeed, the mercy of Allah is near to the doers of good.” Surah Al-A'raf [7:56]. One of the studies issued by the International Meteorological Organization
 indicated an increase in global average temperatures of about four degrees Celsius by The research problem stems from the notable lack of climatic concentrations when designing and implementing the social housing projects and the implication of the specificity of each region in Egypt. To provide health, physiological and psychological comfort, the research raises questions around the significant role a building play to control the interaction between the internal and external environmental conditions. The suitability of a specific treatment to each external environmental condition needs further investigation to provide internal and effective comfort zone and finally elevate the quality of life.
The research uses the inductive approach to review the available literature on social housing and climatic change in Egypt, published by different institutions. Further deductive approach is utilised to form criteria through which the selected case studies from many projects at the level of the seven regions in Egypt are screened and evaluated. The research ends with reaching conclusions and recommendations that clarify the importance of the climate component and its impact on the environment of social housing and determines the mechanisms through which a thermal comfort zone is created for users. And finally recommend solutions to raise the quality of life indicator through environmental treatments.
2060. Egypt, as one of the most five countries in the world that are exposed to the negative effects of climate change, is vulnerable to the rising the sea level, drowning parts of the delta and their implications on the social, economic and environmental harms. The importance of climatic elements and its impact on housing and the outdoor environment is reflected in two accounts. The first is the humanitarian thermal comfort and its implication for the quality of life. The second is the building and its thermal performance, including radiation - air temperature, air pressure, wind and humidity. In terms of scale, in one hand, urban planning informs the distribution of building blocks, streets, and spacing between them, on the other hand, architecture focuses on the internal components of the building blocks and the configuration of their envelope. 
Focusing on the social housing in the Egyptian context, the study examines one of the largest projects started in 2012 to establish one million housing units in all governorates and new cities. Taking up the environmental aspects in social housing to enhance quality of life through adequate housing, the research aims to introduce climatic elements and their different characteristics in many regions in Egypt, to determine the shape of climate variables for these expected elements, to study and determine the effects on the existing status of the social housing project and develop solutions to mitigate these effects.