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Climate Adaptation for Architects: A Design Toolkit

Autor Allison Anderson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 sep 2025
Architecture must adapt to protect people from the threat of climate change. About half of the world’s population lives in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change as hazards continue to intensify, with global disasters projected to reach 560 events per year by 2030, or 1.5 events every day. The accelerating frequency and intensity of disasters underscores the urgency to prepare for severe events to protect people, communities, and essential systems but also to protect the environment which provides shelter, livelihoods, cultural heritage, and public functions. This book provides a comprehensive reference of climate adaptation design tactics and a toolkit for adaptation to shocks and stresses, outlining the process for architects and designers to:
  • Understand the risks posed by climate change to the built environment.
  • Reduce the risks to people and the built environment from natural hazards.
  • Reduce human vulnerability to shocks and stresses by strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity.
  • Design the built environment to adapt to changes over its lifetime.
  • Design buildings and cities to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
  • Preserve biodiversity and support natural resources.
Climate Adaptation for Architects presents 45 adaptation tactics responding to the most consequential effects of climate change: heat, water, wind, and resource scarcity. Each chapter includes images, a definition, background information, key design considerations, potential impacts, and resources for further information. This is a valuable resource for every architect, landscape architect, urban planner, developer, and policymaker.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032702865
ISBN-10: 1032702869
Pagini: 394
Ilustrații: 388
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 21 mm
Greutate: 1.07 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Cuprins

INTRODUCTION Part 1. HEAT  1. HEAT RESPONSE NETWORKS  2. POLICY OF SHADE  3. URBAN COOLING WITH WATER  4. COOL CORRIDORS  5. REFLECTIVE + ABSORPTIVE SITES  6. WILDFIRE PROTECTION  7. AIR QUALITY  8. PASSIVE DESIGN, PASSIVE SURVIVABILITY  9. SOLAR CONTROL  10. COOL ENVELOPE  11. BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION 12. UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER Part 2. WATER  13. TOPOGRAPHY + RISK  14. RETREAT + REALIGNMENT  15. NEARSHORE BREAKWATERS  16. MODULAR REVETMENTS  17. SEAWALLS, FLOODWALLS, LEVEES + BERMS 18. INFILTRATION ZONES, RIPARIAN BUFFERS + LIVING SHORELINES  19. ELEVATED ROADWAYS  20. RECONNECTING WATER  21. THE ELEVATED COMMONS  22. FLOOD BARRIERS + GATES  23. CORNICHE  24. ELEVATION  25. WET + DRY FLOODPROOFING  26. FLOATING STRUCTURES  Part 3. WIND  27. WIND ANALYSIS  28. SPATIAL TEXTURE  29. TEMPORARY HOUSING  30. DEFENSIBLE LANDSCAPE  31. CONTINUOUS LOAD PATH  32. ENVELOPE + BREACH  33. COLLATERAL DAMAGE  34. SAFE ROOMS  35. EARTH SHELTER  36. EMERGENCY CACHE  Part 4. SCARCITY  37. BIODIVERSITY + ADAPTATION  38. EDIBLE CITIES  39. BOUNDARIES TO GROWTH  40. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AFTER DISASTER  41. SOCIAL CAPITAL + SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE  42. NET-ZERO WATER  43. CIRCULARITY  44. ADAPTABLE + ADAPTIVE  45. ANTIFRAGILE

Recenzii

‘Resilience for architects is a matter of understanding how climate hazards threaten to damage and destroy a building and making hundreds of well-informed design decisions. Allison Anderson’s book, Climate Adaptation for Architects, is written with the obvious insight of a practicing architect who has made those hundred of decisions many times and lives up to the responsibility to make buildings that will stand the tests of increasing risks’. David Perkes, AIA, Professor, Mississippi State University
‘The rising number of climate-related disasters worldwide make investing in adaptation increasingly critical. This is an essential resource for designers working at multiple scales to ensure that planning, infrastructure, and buildings are prepared for disasters’. Amy Chester, Director, Rebuild by Design
‘Resilient design is essential if we choose to protect people and property from a warmer, more chaotic climate. Luckily, the path forward is clear thanks to Climate Adaptation for Architects: A Design Toolkit. With design strategies that cover the full breadth of challenges we face, every architect now has the tools necessary to design for the future we know is coming’. Corey Squire, author of People, Planet, Design: A Practical Guide to Realizing Architecture’s Potential
Climate Adaptation for Architects provides essential knowledge to drive the crucial need to integrate resilience and adaptation into the built environment. The book is a comprehensive guide to adaptive design solutions at all scales – from materials to community scale, from theory to application. The clear organization by risk category, with great illustrations, makes the book easily accessible as a go-to guide. It should be an indispensable resource for all architects, from students to seasoned professionals’. Mary Ann Lazarus, FAIA LEED Fellow, Architect and Consultant, Cameron MacAllister Group, Adjunct Faculty, Washington University in St. Louis

Notă biografică

Allison H. Anderson, FAIA, is the founding principal of unabridged Architecture, a firm recognized for incorporating sustainability, climate change adaptation, and resilience across a wide variety of project scales. Allison was the first LEED‑Accredited Professional in Mississippi, focused on sustainability. After Hurricane Katrina devastated her community, unabridged Architecture began exploring resilience and climate adaptation. Her research is included in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science, the AIA Resilient Project Process Guide, AIA Climate Action Playbook, and the AIA Framework for Design Excellence. Allison has taught architecture at the University of Texas, Tulane University, and Louisiana State University. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Descriere

Architecture must adapt to protect people from the threat of climate change. Each chapter includes images, definition, background information, key design issues, potential impacts, and resources for further information. This is a valuable resource for all architects, landscape architects, urban planners, developers, and policy makers.