Climate Responsive
Design and architecture that adapts to climate conditions and environmental contexts.
The Adsequor: A Leaning Tower in Izmir That Harvests Rain and Spares the Meles Delta
A People's Choice entry that tilts a hotel tower northeast, using its lean to harvest rain and spread its weight across fragile wetland soil.
Made of Water: Wildfire Towers That Store Rain, Seed Clouds and Hold the Memory of Loss
A network of counterweighted water towers placed by sacred geometry turns wildfire defence into water storage, cloud seeding and a vertical memorial.
Climate Adaptation Kokkedal Urban Playground by Schønherr
Climate-adaptive urban landscape in Kokkedal transforms flood management into social, ecological public spaces, enhancing resilience, biodiversity, safety, and everyday community life.
A Park in the Shade: Climate as the Generator of an Industrial Village in Palakkad
Hisham Sulaiman's thesis rebuilds a Kerala industrial park around shade, airflow and water, from wind corridors to a kinetic umbrella canopy.
MORPHLUID: A Solar-Responsive Envelope That Shades and Breathes Through Liquid-Filled Panels
Sandesh's MORPHLUID uses sun-heated liquid chambers to morph panels, turning an envelope module into both a shading device and a ventilation system.
Surging Atoll 2100: A Miami Research Centre That Plans for Its Own Flooding
A Virginia Key research centre that lets its ground floor flood in phases, trading parking for piers as Miami's sea climbs toward 2100.
Amidst the Tempest: Turning Defunct Mumbai High Oil Rigs into a Vertical Marine Campus
A UnIATA ’19 entry that keeps the columns and decks of an abandoned Arabian Sea rig and grafts on pods for research, rescue, energy and dwelling.
Coastal Eco-Village: Rebuilding a Mangalore Fishing Settlement Without Handing It Over to Tourism
Swathi S proposes cluster housing, low-rise cottages and shared civic space for Thota Bengre, letting fishing life and tourism share one coast.
Probabilis Domus: Housing Shaped by Climate, Not Celebrity
A climate-responsive housing cluster in Ludhiana replaces iconic form-making with passive strategies, shared courtyards, and affordable materiality.
Aniene River Blue-Green Infrastructure: Turning Rome's Flood Risk into Public Landscape
A 650-hectare landscape strategy along Rome's Aniene River transforms flood events into ecological corridors, retention basins, and civic space.
Forgotten Waters: Disaster-Resilient Housing Rooted in Dhanushkodi's Ruins
A coastal housing strategy that reads tidal forces, reinterprets colonial ruins, and embeds cyclone resilience into the rhythms of daily life.
Following The Mound: A Hill That Teaches Children to Read the Climate
An inhabitable artificial topography merges green infrastructure with child-centered play across a temperate-climate learning environment.
