Abstract
The Anthropocene thesis poses new challenges to human activity on the planet. These challenges also apply to the built environment. Climate change will increase existing threats, and create new ones, for both human and natural systems. Above all, the built environment is expected to provide structural stability, access to water necessary for life, and safe production of clean energy. This research-by-design was focused on designing an adaptive built environment for Anthropocene societies and the maintenance of their well-being, and on envisioning and conceptualizing new architectural solutions based on multidisciplinary knowledge and CAD parametric design methods and tools. The conceptual designs are the result of these studies. These visions show how wind loads can be reduced, water can be stored, diverse energy sources can be integrated into one work of architecture, and thermal comfort can be provided to support local communities and the life of the environment in the belief that the coexistence of species on the planet will happen. They also illustrate how humanity will be able to use the Earth and its atmosphere as an energy producer and conductor and create a global, wireless, non-commercial energy network, accessible to all.
Highlights
The Anthropocene epoch needs new concepts of Nature–Technology–Culture, especially in relation to the built environment
The results show some regions exhibiting a large spread in projected changes in water resources within the climate-hydrology modelling chain [26]
The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to the study of the Anthropocene as a geological time unit, whilst the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) is an international research center looking into resilience and sustainability science
Summary
The Anthropocene epoch needs new concepts of Nature–Technology–Culture, especially in relation to the built environment. The thesis offers contemporary architects, engineers, and scientists from different disciplines the chance to face up to the urgency of the modes of these enquiries and allow their consequences to unfold, alongside an effort to conceptualize the built environment and social justice [8]. These risks are reducing, this has not been evenly distributed over the globe, and climate change is affecting species of nature, and disadvantaged people and groups in society the most. These challenges have been addressed by the authors in an academic research program entitled Climate Change
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