climate

futures


On view at the Liberty Research Annex
October 17, 2024 - January 1, 2025


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  1. 22/26 Midwest
  2. Ambiguous Territory
  3. Annotation and Insulation
  4. Asutsuare Rebound
  5. Atlas of the Trans-Apocalypse
  6. Becoming Biomass
  7. Bespoke Ultra-Thin Layered 3D-printed Reusable Wood-Bio-Based Formwork for Casting Complex Concrete Geometries
  8. Branch Wall: Geometrically Informed Non-Planar Toolpath and Material Deposition
  9. Deploy 2.0
  10. Detroit Cultural Center
  11. Elephant in the Room, and Other Fables
  12. Fabric-Formed Unstabilized Poured Earth
  13. Frie(s/d)
  14. Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing
  15. Guidance for Designing and Implementing Constitutionally Valid Local Plans and Regulations to Protect Landmarked Trees, Woodlands, and Tree Canopy in Michigan
  16. Heat and Housing: Co-producing Passive Cooling Strategies and Promoting Health in Informal and Precarious Settlements
  17. Hygroscopic Envelope: Building Enclosures for Climate Adaptation
  18. In My Backyard
  19. In-Svalbard: Cold Coast Atlas
  20. Land, Foodways, and Kinship: The Case of Palestinian Villages
  21. Light Forms
  22. MiCE Architecture: Design Strategies to Mitigate Michigan Coastal Erosion
  23. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
  24. Myco-Composite Furniture
  25. Post Rock Post-Industrial Plastic Facade
  26. re:FE Reimagining Mining Waste from a Wounded Region
  27. Shell Wall: Coupling Non-Planar Robotic 3D Concrete Printing and Topology Optimization
  28. Solar Technology Integration on Building Facades
  29. The Canopy
  30. The Lifespan Project
  31. Unfolding Forms of Conveyance
  32. Urban Climate Law Series
  33. Vertical Wetlands





Heating and Housing: Co-producing Passive Cooling Strategies and Promoting Health in Informal and Precarious Settlements
Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, Lars Junghans, Gabriel Harp, María Arquero de Alarcón, Ana Morcillo, Jonathan Rule, Carina Gronlund, Aline Cotel, Mieko Yoshihama, Odessa Gonzalez2024

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The 6th IPCC Assessment Report highlights the increased vulnerability of informal settlements to climate change impacts. Our initiative, Heat and Housing: Co-producing Passive Cooling Strategies and Promoting Health in Informal and Precarious Settlements, addresses the more frequent and severe heat waves in urban areas across South America. Heat-related deaths exceed those caused by cold weather and mudslides. People living in informal and precarious settlements are at risk of indoor heat exposure due to poorly constructed housing and limited access to shaded outdoor areas and indoor cooling facilities such as malls and libraries. Our collaborative research works with housing movements and dwellers’ associations to collectively develop and prioritize passive cooling strategies. This approach integrates culturally suitable thermal comfort models, building technology, design research, and community knowledge to support auto-construction practices, upgrading self-built homes. The goal is to reduce indoor heat and improve residents’ well-being, while positively impacting public policy. An exhibition showcases a prototype shack house in São Paulo, Brazil, featuring passive cooling techniques. It includes a brief video about the research, demonstrating the potential of community mobilization for climate action. The exhibition also features a printed report detailing heat inequality, the participatory process, and the ranked passive cooling strategies.

Additional credits:
Brazil: UMM-SP: Benedito R. Barbosa, Marilene Ribeiro de Souza, Sheila Nobre. Sidnei Pitta. 
Peabiru-TCA:  Nunes Lopes dos Reis, Cíntia Fidelis, Larissa Hiratsuka, Beatriz Ribeiro Cieto, Caio Santo Amore.  
Colombia: Julian Constantino Carvajal Miranda, Dr. Carlos E. Vecino Arenas, Aamnda Amorocho.