Cooling a Marble Plaza: Relying on Reflectivity, Not Air Conditioning

An extremely large outdoor plaza, paved with high-reflectance white marble that has been specially surface-treated to keep its surface temperature tens of degrees Celsius lower than ordinary stone under strong sunlight, allowing people to walk barefoot. The stone slabs are massive, with extremely fine joints, and are subtly sloped towards linear drains embedded in the paving. Around the plaza is a ring of fine mist nozzles that release water mist at specific times to cool the area, forming visible white bands in the strong light. The ground is almost blindingly bright in the sunlight. Avoid: using dark stone for paving, wide joints, adding grass and trees, making the water mist into obvious fountains.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一片極大的戶外廣場,鋪面使用高反射率的白色大理石,經過特殊的表面處理讓它在強烈日照下的表面溫度比一般石材低攝氏十幾度,人可以赤腳行走。石板尺寸巨大,接縫極細,並以微幅的坡度導向嵌在鋪面裡的線性排水溝。廣場周邊有一圈細霧噴嘴,在特定時段釋放水霧降溫,霧在強光下形成可見的白色帶狀。地面在陽光下亮得幾乎刺眼。避免:鋪面使用深色石材、接縫做寬、加入草地與樹木、水霧做成明顯的噴泉。