Rudi Stouffs
Biographic Data
| ID | 8964971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rudi Stouffs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rudi |
| FAMILY NAME | Stouffs |
| SIGNATURE | STOUFFS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4200-5833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From physical surfaces to human-centric heat stress
Heat exposure connects the built environment and public health, directly shaping the livability and sustainability of urban areas. Fully understanding the spatial heterogeneity of heat exposure and its driving factors is therefore a vital prerequisite for climate-adaptive urban planning. However, most planning-oriented studies rely on land surface temperature (LST), and whether LST adequately represents human heat exposure and how it differs from…
A Graph-Based Human-Centered GeoAI for Understanding Street-Level Environment and Traffic Accident Frequency with Street View Imagery
Traffic accidents are a major global concern, highlighting the need for advanced traffic analysis and predictive techniques. The emergence of crowdsourced street view imagery (SVI) platforms has transformed public participation in collecting urban data, initiating the development of human-centered traffic analytics. This article investigates the relationship between visual urban understanding derived from Mapillary SVI and the frequency of urban …
Reducing elderly vulnerability to climate change risks using an integrated infrastructure recovery planning
As urban areas face increasing climate risks, enhancing urban resilience has become a crucial priority, especially in densely populated and rapidly ageing cities such as Singapore. This study proposes an integrated recovery planning workflow to reduce elderly vulnerability under compound extreme heat and flash flooding events intensified by climate change. This workflow considers three important criteria: outdoor thermal comfort, assessed using t…
Living upon networks
Cities are supported by multiple, interacting networks, most prominently streets, which channel movement and economic exchange, and, in many contexts, waterways, which regulate flows of goods, people, and environmental amenities. Conventional quantitative studies of urban form have tended to privilege streets alone, limiting their ability to capture the full spatial logic of the urban fabric. This paper introduces a Heterogeneous Graph Autoen-cod…
Shading-Canopy for better outdoor thermal comfort
Sensing climate justice
Cooling effects of urban green spaces
Drivers of day–night intra-surface urban heat island variations under local extreme heat
Reanalysis-data-based approach to generate urban local weather data to support building energy design in a tropical climate
Simulation and prediction of daytime surface urban heat island intensity under multiple scenarios via fully connected neural network
An integrated framework for jointly assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of surface urban heat island intensity and footprint
An urban heat island (UHI) refers to a metropolitan area significantly warmer than its rural surroundings. Accurately quantifying UHI intensity (UHII) relies on selecting appropriate rural areas, which lack a universal definition. A crucial aspect in UHII quantification is considering the spatial extent of the UHI effect, known as its footprints (UHIFP). Here, we propose a framework to jointly estimate both UHII and UHIFP, integrating the latter …
Integrating SSPs and multi-model ensembles in exploring parameter relationships for vertical urban development using a 3D-UGM
As global urbanization accelerates, it exacerbates sustainability challenges across environmental, economic, and social realms, underscoring the need for sophisticated urban planning models. Here, we introduce a novel 3D Urban Growth Model (3D-UGM) that uniquely integrates vertical structural data, enabling enhanced analysis and prediction of urban development patterns. Our model employs an innovative blend of analytical techniques and scenario-b…
Virtual 3D City Models
Virtual 3D city models, in varying forms of extent and detail, are becoming more common, yet their usage might still be limited [...]
Technology transfer for social benefit
The transfer of knowledge and inventions from universities to society has a twofold objective: the business community should be advanced by innovations, and society should benefit. Economic success is relatively easy to measure (e.g., increased sales), but social benefits are not. Thus, we presented a matrix of 10 principles for the assessment of the social value of technologies. With this understanding, technology transfer processes can be desig…
The zero option – tenant experiences from an experiment to renovate apartments without increasing rent
To avoid “renoviction”, a public housing company in a stigmatized neighbourhood in Sweden (Hammarkullen) decided to renovate its rental apartments suffering from neglected maintenance using a “zero option” with regard to rent increase. The present article is based on content and thematic analysis of tenant interviews, documents and mass media articles. It describes the tenants’ views on this initiative and its consequences for them. The results s…
Tools for BIM-GIS Integration (IFC Georeferencing and Conversions)
The integration of 3D city models with Building Information Models (BIM), coined as GeoBIM, facilitates improved data support to several applications, e.g., 3D map updates, building permits issuing, detailed city analysis, infrastructure design, context-based building design, to name a few. To solve the integration, several issues need to be tackled and solved, i.e., harmonization of features, interoperability, format conversions, integration of …
Description grammars
A description grammar, in conjunction with a shape grammar, serves to generate verbal descriptions of designs, next to the spatial descriptions. These verbal descriptions can also assist in guiding the generative process. This paper revisits applications of description grammars found in literature and demonstrates how they can be recast and redeveloped to make use of a general notation and implementation for description grammars. The review of th…
Description grammars
A description grammar, in conjunction with a shape grammar, serves to generate verbal descriptions of designs, next to the spatial descriptions. These verbal descriptions can also assist in guiding the generative process. This paper presents a general notation for descriptions and description rules that accounts, extensively if not entirely, for many of the applications of description grammars found in literature. Specifically, a review of the no…
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Description grammars
A description grammar, in conjunction with a shape grammar, serves to generate verbal descriptions of designs, next to the spatial descriptions. These verbal descriptions can also assist in guiding the generative process. This paper revisits applications of description grammars found in literature and demonstrates how they can be recast and redeveloped to make use of a general notation and implementation for description grammars. The review of th…
Description grammars
A description grammar, in conjunction with a shape grammar, serves to generate verbal descriptions of designs, next to the spatial descriptions. These verbal descriptions can also assist in guiding the generative process. This paper presents a general notation for descriptions and description rules that accounts, extensively if not entirely, for many of the applications of description grammars found in literature. Specifically, a review of the no…
The zero option – tenant experiences from an experiment to renovate apartments without increasing rent
To avoid “renoviction”, a public housing company in a stigmatized neighbourhood in Sweden (Hammarkullen) decided to renovate its rental apartments suffering from neglected maintenance using a “zero option” with regard to rent increase. The present article is based on content and thematic analysis of tenant interviews, documents and mass media articles. It describes the tenants’ views on this initiative and its consequences for them. The results s…
Tools for BIM-GIS Integration (IFC Georeferencing and Conversions)
The integration of 3D city models with Building Information Models (BIM), coined as GeoBIM, facilitates improved data support to several applications, e.g., 3D map updates, building permits issuing, detailed city analysis, infrastructure design, context-based building design, to name a few. To solve the integration, several issues need to be tackled and solved, i.e., harmonization of features, interoperability, format conversions, integration of …
Technology transfer for social benefit
The transfer of knowledge and inventions from universities to society has a twofold objective: the business community should be advanced by innovations, and society should benefit. Economic success is relatively easy to measure (e.g., increased sales), but social benefits are not. Thus, we presented a matrix of 10 principles for the assessment of the social value of technologies. With this understanding, technology transfer processes can be desig…
Virtual 3D City Models
Virtual 3D city models, in varying forms of extent and detail, are becoming more common, yet their usage might still be limited [...]
Simulation and prediction of daytime surface urban heat island intensity under multiple scenarios via fully connected neural network
An integrated framework for jointly assessing spatiotemporal dynamics of surface urban heat island intensity and footprint
An urban heat island (UHI) refers to a metropolitan area significantly warmer than its rural surroundings. Accurately quantifying UHI intensity (UHII) relies on selecting appropriate rural areas, which lack a universal definition. A crucial aspect in UHII quantification is considering the spatial extent of the UHI effect, known as its footprints (UHIFP). Here, we propose a framework to jointly estimate both UHII and UHIFP, integrating the latter …
Integrating SSPs and multi-model ensembles in exploring parameter relationships for vertical urban development using a 3D-UGM
As global urbanization accelerates, it exacerbates sustainability challenges across environmental, economic, and social realms, underscoring the need for sophisticated urban planning models. Here, we introduce a novel 3D Urban Growth Model (3D-UGM) that uniquely integrates vertical structural data, enabling enhanced analysis and prediction of urban development patterns. Our model employs an innovative blend of analytical techniques and scenario-b…
Sensing climate justice
Cooling effects of urban green spaces
Drivers of day–night intra-surface urban heat island variations under local extreme heat
Reanalysis-data-based approach to generate urban local weather data to support building energy design in a tropical climate
From physical surfaces to human-centric heat stress
Heat exposure connects the built environment and public health, directly shaping the livability and sustainability of urban areas. Fully understanding the spatial heterogeneity of heat exposure and its driving factors is therefore a vital prerequisite for climate-adaptive urban planning. However, most planning-oriented studies rely on land surface temperature (LST), and whether LST adequately represents human heat exposure and how it differs from…
A Graph-Based Human-Centered GeoAI for Understanding Street-Level Environment and Traffic Accident Frequency with Street View Imagery
Traffic accidents are a major global concern, highlighting the need for advanced traffic analysis and predictive techniques. The emergence of crowdsourced street view imagery (SVI) platforms has transformed public participation in collecting urban data, initiating the development of human-centered traffic analytics. This article investigates the relationship between visual urban understanding derived from Mapillary SVI and the frequency of urban …
Reducing elderly vulnerability to climate change risks using an integrated infrastructure recovery planning
As urban areas face increasing climate risks, enhancing urban resilience has become a crucial priority, especially in densely populated and rapidly ageing cities such as Singapore. This study proposes an integrated recovery planning workflow to reduce elderly vulnerability under compound extreme heat and flash flooding events intensified by climate change. This workflow considers three important criteria: outdoor thermal comfort, assessed using t…
Living upon networks
Cities are supported by multiple, interacting networks, most prominently streets, which channel movement and economic exchange, and, in many contexts, waterways, which regulate flows of goods, people, and environmental amenities. Conventional quantitative studies of urban form have tended to privilege streets alone, limiting their ability to capture the full spatial logic of the urban fabric. This paper introduces a Heterogeneous Graph Autoen-cod…
Shading-Canopy for better outdoor thermal comfort
Computer Science (9 works) · Urban Heat Island Mitigation (9 works) · Urban heat island (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Environmental Science (4 works) · Meteorology (4 works) · 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications (3 works) · Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (3 works)