Outdoor Environmental Quality
Extensive landscaping and a sunken outdoor garden ensure not only a green space but also provide a cool and shaded environment for the occupants. This, coupled with a green roof helps to further reduce urban heat and effect whereby the hardscape areas are reduced and replaced with soft green landscape.
Buildings near or surrounded by greenery have lower ambient temperature (surrounding temperature) than the ones away from the greenery and it is seen as an effective way to lower the ambient temperature.