Design for Climate | Design for Change: Addressing key challenges facing the built environment
Researcher
Marra + Yeh Architects
Published
08 Apr 2024
Funding
Design Strategy Grant
Informed by historical precedents, exploring design-for-resilience strategies and illustrated by contemporary case studies, it is a toolkit of evidence-based principles in the age of climate change.
Primary concerns include redefining our relationship with nature while mitigating its adverse effects – heat, wind, fire and floods; building to anticipate change and to enhance privacy and individual amenity within increased density.
This guide, produced by Marra + Yeh Architects provides strategies for mitigation and adaption, acknowledging climate change as re-shaping the natural built environments. Including precedents that investigate methodologies to mitigate climate without energy-intensive technologies, providing historical context and wisdom for contemporary applications. Their analysis of existing technical manuals and standards provide contemporary regulatory context, informing principles and strategies. The Case studies demonstrate how the interpretation of precedents updated by current knowledge and technology can create contemporary architecture.
