Surfaces of Urban Life: Design Opportunities for Addressing Climate and Comfort across Scales
Meggers, Forrest
Surfaces of Urban Life: Design Opportunities for Addressing Climate and Comfort across Scales - urbanNext December 31, 2020. - 1699 words
Design with Life, Energy and sustainability, Essay, Forrest Meggers, High Density, Urban Paradigms
Architecture&climate, Built environment, City challenge, Climate concern, Comfort, Consumption, Contamination, Designing Climate, Ecology, Ecosystem, Environmental degradation, Essay, Global Awareness, Heat Island Effect, Interiors, Materials, Matter, New paradigms, Science, Solar radiation, Surface, Temperature, Thermal comfort, Urban conditions, Urban Development, Urban environment, Urban infrastructure, Urban Paradigms, Urban research, Ventilation, Visualization
This essay is an excerpt of "Design with Life" by Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova from Terreform ONE, published by Actar Publishers -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2019933631
While we have achieved unprecedented infrastructural feats, technical developments, and increased prosperity, our urbanity has also created the grandest challenges we have ever faced. The societal successes that enabled our massive urban expansion have simultaneously enabled our intellectual capabilities to recognize these problems. We can now characterize and predict with confidence the very real and dire consequences of unchecked resource consumption and environmental degradation. The urban climate is full of dangerous positive feedback loops that models show are driving conditions to be less and less conducive to life (Meggers et al. 2016; Bruelisauer et al. 2014; Allegrini, Dorer, and Carmeliet 2012; Salata et al. 2016).
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Architecture Climate Change Design Solutions
Surfaces of Urban Life: Design Opportunities for Addressing Climate and Comfort across Scales - urbanNext December 31, 2020. - 1699 words
Design with Life, Energy and sustainability, Essay, Forrest Meggers, High Density, Urban Paradigms
Architecture&climate, Built environment, City challenge, Climate concern, Comfort, Consumption, Contamination, Designing Climate, Ecology, Ecosystem, Environmental degradation, Essay, Global Awareness, Heat Island Effect, Interiors, Materials, Matter, New paradigms, Science, Solar radiation, Surface, Temperature, Thermal comfort, Urban conditions, Urban Development, Urban environment, Urban infrastructure, Urban Paradigms, Urban research, Ventilation, Visualization
This essay is an excerpt of "Design with Life" by Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova from Terreform ONE, published by Actar Publishers -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2019933631
While we have achieved unprecedented infrastructural feats, technical developments, and increased prosperity, our urbanity has also created the grandest challenges we have ever faced. The societal successes that enabled our massive urban expansion have simultaneously enabled our intellectual capabilities to recognize these problems. We can now characterize and predict with confidence the very real and dire consequences of unchecked resource consumption and environmental degradation. The urban climate is full of dangerous positive feedback loops that models show are driving conditions to be less and less conducive to life (Meggers et al. 2016; Bruelisauer et al. 2014; Allegrini, Dorer, and Carmeliet 2012; Salata et al. 2016).
2575-5374
Architecture Climate Change Design Solutions