4. Perception of Environmental Conditions
4.1. Thermal Environment
Regarding thermal sensation (Fig. 4), the conditions were
perceived as warm (48.3%). With regards to their overall comfort,
87.7% of the people voted comfortable. The interviewees seemed to
prefer no change (58.1%), or desired cooler conditions (39.2%) and
only 2.7% voted for warmer conditions. Regarding wind conditions,
nearly 70% preferred no change with 22.3% asking for more wind.
Wind perception is significantly correlated with wind preference
(r=−0.28), air temperature (r=0.18) and wind speed (r=−0.19).
Wind preference on the other hand is not correlated with wind speed
but only with air temperature (r=−0.21). This is not surprising since
under low wind speeds, as in these surveys, wind preference is
influenced by thermal sensation (r=−0.19).
Thermal vote is strongly correlated with thermal preference
(r=−0.40), implying that respondents who felt warmer preferred
to be cooler. Air temperature is well correlated with both thermal vote
(r=0.33) and preference (r=−0.17), whereas humidity and wind