Climate Responsive Architecture Case Study
Florentina Holcombe
Addressing the universe of the world's largest tropical forest, the book 'Living in the Amazon in the 21st Century: A Guide to Urban Planning and Design for Cities in the Peruvian lowland rainforest', has been selected as a finalist in the category of publications at the 12th Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. The issue, published in 2019 as part of the PUCP Architecture Publications, in the framework of the CASA (Self-Sustainable Amazonian Cities) project of the Climate Resilient Cities initiative of IDRC, FFLA and CDKN, focuses its research on the department of Loreto, presenting itself as "a guide for architecture and urban design, for settlements in the Amazon forest, including the social processes to be considered".
Upon becoming a sovereign country, free from British Rule, the people of India found themselves faced with questions they had never needed to answer before. Coming from different cultures and origins, the citizens began to wonder what post-independence India would stand for. The nation-builders now had the choice to carve out their own future, along with the responsibility to reclaim its identity - but what was India's identity? Was it the temples and huts of the indigenous folk, the lofty palaces of the Mughal era, or the debris of British rule? There began a search for a contemporary Indian sensibility that would carry the collective histories of citizens towards a future of hope.
Architecture firm Populous has been chosen as the architect for a new multi-use, climate-neutral event arena in Munich, Germany. The structure aims to create a unique experience; a "compact, efficient, and visually stunning" venue that will be instantly recognizable and reflective of the character and culture of the Bavarian metropolitan area, serving as a new landmark. The 20,000 capacity venue draws upon Bavarian heritage through a support structure that pays homage to the lozenge shape used in the Bavarian state flag.
Advances in biotechnology and material science are opening new material opportunities, with the potential of fundamentally changing the connection between the built environment and the natural world. Building materials and construction account for 11% of greenhouse gas emissions. The AEC industry can contribute to curbing climate change in the following years, and the re-evaluation of commonplace building materials is one of the most critical steps. Bioengineered materials, which grow, produce energy, self-heal, are the next frontier in biology and material science and potentially a path towards a new kind of architecture. Although innovation in these fields is still far away from mainstream commercial use, it promises to dramatically change the image of the built environment.
Biodiversity has become ubiquitous in project descriptions as yet another mark of the design's environmental accomplishments. The increasing focus on sustainability, the standard inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, prompts a deeper understanding of what biodiversity in urban environments means and how can architecture and urban design actively contribute to it. With species extinction rates soaring and urbanization over natural land continuing, cities become an essential factor in sustaining biodiversity, and the following explores how the built environment can foster multi-species habitats.
This week, the C40 global network of cities and engineering and sustainability firm Arup launched a virtual exhibition showcasing examples of climate initiatives and resiliency strategies from 11 cities committed to addressing climate change. Given that cities account for more than 70% of global carbon emissions, the Global Cities Climate Action Exhibition aims to highlight the role of cities in reaching climate targets through local policies and urban development plans, achieving tangible emission reductions and increasing social equity.
A new masterplan along the central Pailao River in Shenzhen proposes a climate-proof regeneration of the area, using nature and water retention ecological zones to mitigate the risk of flooding. Created by urban design and architecture practice VenhoevenCS, with landscape vision by Hope Design and water management plan by Huadong Engineering, the Pailao River Blueway Project capitalizes on the coexistence of the urban and the natural environment, ensuring resilience and enhancing the economic growth of the city district.
Architecture has an inherent role to the play in the global climate crisis. Buildings and their construction together account for 36 percent of global energy use and 39 percent of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions annually. Brad Jacobson is a principal at EHDD and a leader working to implement climate responsive design. Designing for the future, Brad synthesizes diverse perspectives to craft high performance solutions.
Migration as a result of changing climate has already begun. And while this poses enormous challenges for governments - particularly at a global moment that seems indisposed towards immigration and immigrants - there is also the concern that heritage will inevitably be lost. In places like Scotland, rising sea levels have put ancient sites at risk; the same is the case in island nations in the Pacific. As mounting environmental risks become more inevitable day by day, cities around the world are turning to more resilient forms of architecture and urban planning to combat both short term shocks and longer term pressures as a means of ensuring their future.
Could you ever imagine working in a small city? A new massive office building by Morphogenesis is being built to accommodate over 45,000 people for the Surat Diamond Bourse office in Surat, Gujarat, India. At 6.5 million square feet, and housing over 4,000 offices, it will be the second largest office building in the world, placing only behind the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Although its physical footprint may be large, the office building was designed in a manner to minimize its ecological footprint. Passive design strategies such as day-lit workspaces, natural ventilation, and indoor/outdoor spaces not only make the Surat Diamond office an efficient climate-responsive design, but also a key player for achieving aesthetic and comfortable working spaces.
The climate responsive design refers to the architecture that reflects the particular region-specific weather conditions of the peculiar area. It uses data of weather patterns and factors like sun, wind, rainfall, and humidity. The building structure is built according to the same.
This papertainer museum is the best example of innovation combined with very simple materials. This building is a temporary installation that was created to celebrate the anniversary of the Korean publication design house. Its shape is something that is built with 166 cargo containers and 555 paper tubes and is about 10 meters high. It is a portable and climate-responsive structure. The whole structure can be disassembled and transported to other cities.
The structure of Eco Bulevar is made from recycled materials and plants. The cylinder-shaped building portrays a mimic greenhouse system that lowers the temperature by up to 10 degrees. This climate-responsive structure is portable so can be exported to other locations with similar climate and can be installed there, or at other places that require reactivation of their activities. It has become a gathering place for the neighboring population.
This cultural center was created by landscaper Patrik Blanc that is located in the Paseo del Prado of Madrid. This building is 24 meters high with the wall of a high vertical garden that has 15000 plants of 250 different species. This is spread over 460 square meters of green wall over which plants grow without Earth but with water and nutrients. This climate-responsive structure creates the indoor and outer around the building a thermal comfort place to move around.
The design at the shore of lake Rupanco is a 20 square meter built with a low-cost material with easy installation. Its volume is combining as a whole without making partitions or distinctions of its elements of the structure. All the elements of the chapel, walls, ceiling, and the opening, form a whole unit with a pine covering over the ceiling. This is a simple yet beautiful example of a climate-responsive environmentally friendly architecture.
Due to extreme humidity and salt air, the Barony House with an idyllic plan was created on the Chilean Pacific coast. To build a climate-responsive structure, they chose glass and weathering Steel dominated exterior and by warm wood sheathed in the exterior. This building offers a view of the sea through a window from the bedroom.
This three-story office building is a reuse structure of two existing houses from 1939.this current structure is built of wood and uses thermal insulation to reduce heat loss through the glass in winter. Only pine wood from the renewable forest is encouraged in the structure.
This responsive building acts to the climate in such a way that its color of the interior membrane of the building gets lighter on the summer warm days and darker in the colder days. This is due to the use of thermo or photochromatic links. This structure deals best with the carbon emission and makes the building aesthetically beautiful.
As a part of the future Venice project, the proposal by architect Rachel Armstrong who is also the leading figure in synthetic biology that protocols could be used to grow an artificial limestone reef which can lead to the foundation of Venice. This proposal of living technology can be a huge change in the approach of sustainable architecture in the coming years.
This is a new form of climate-responsive architecture recently launched by the team at the University of Stuttgart. This responsive based architecture uses the basic material like the word to allow simple dynamic menu pollution of buildings humidity. This hydra skin requires an additional source of energy for or control. This is the natural property of wood (elasticity), to adjust the movement of apertures.
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