Resilience of Climatic Change and Sustainable Design

Abstract

The ever-shifting global climate drives all of humanity's adaptive measures to lessen the effects of its actions. In the essay, the author emphasizes ‘resilience' in the context of the shift in design methods towards the creation of a material reserve. Adaptation to changing climatic circumstances may be achieved via the study of past occurrences and their causes. In the first section, we will examine how the concept of sustainable development is not often included into the building design process. This demonstrates the destructive effects of human building on the ecosystem, which we share with other species and can understand in the context of the planet's warming. Part 2 explores how to describe the early and final stages of a building's design in terms of its impact on the environment and its role as a city builder. In the last section, the materiality of the building as a whole (its pre-use, operational, and decommissioning phases, as well as its pollutions, embodied energy, embodied carbon, and serviceability) is discussed. Buildings' current and future performance in the face of climate change may be optimized with the use of a resilience scenario.