Capítulo 1: Arquitectura y clima

when any new project arrives you you

have to look at the climate situation

like just like you look at the landscape

situation or whatever I mean some

architects you get the same result

whatever the climate or wherever the

building is that we like to feel that

climate very much shapes our buildings

and the landscape of setting the

buildings often dictates the shape

running example for instance when we did

the British Pavilion in Seville which

was based on energy it's pretty well the

hottest city in Europe so that so our

idea was to harness the Sun to call cool

the building so we had solar cells on

the roof louvers with solar cells

collecting energy on the roof of the

building and built a solid wall facing

facing west as a complete barrier to the

to the Sun and to stabilize the

temperature in a building we sheltered

the east and west facades with fabric

louvers

so in fact we we made it should make

sure that the Sun never actually touched

the building at all

it was completely sheltered and

protected well we are living in an era

of global warming the climate change the

climate is changing rapidly we can no

longer just rely on the old idea of

local climate of course every authentic

piece of architecture or city planning

is based on a genius loci on a place its

topography its history its people and

its weather and of course that is a main

factor in designing a building you

cannot design a building from the north

in the south or a building from the

south and the north let us make any

sense but as I'm indicating with global

weather change you have to really look

another criteria because we're living in

a crisis era it's an era of a war

against the planet Earth some have :

down troppo scene every project you know

worked in the norms I work in the South

in Africa and indeed every work has to

relate itself deeply to the conduct I'm

working in Africa we can enter into kana

that has a desert climate I'm working in

Finland close to the North Pole that has

Nordic European climate so of course

every building material every choice

that you make of how to conserve energy

how to make smart buildings that are

responsive to the environment it's a

challenge well my work is you can watch

the architecture well one of the most

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because different climate in the world

influence the type of species of flora

and fauna out that locality is also it

in the same really influences the

foreign fauna responses the architecture

and human being support

designer camlet means you start with

passive mode means improve concrete

conditions without

engineering but the next level is what I

call mixed mode it's unlikely you're

gonna pull up okay so that by using

mixed mode is a technique to extend the

mid seasons

both in summer and in winter so in this

way midst mix it mix mode is a way of

reducing energy consumption of the

building and then of course I come

through mode which was a conditioning

routine and so forth and they're not

good motive you wanna call productive

mode which is where your building

becomes a power station but several

channels and some magnitude and so

climate starts at the baseline I think

local climate has always influenced

buildings and I would say always has

influenced great architecture the

question is or whatever the the

interesting phenomena since the

Industrial Revolution is that there's

probably like a strand of buildings that

ever developed and Korea they had their

peak in modernism where buildings could

actually ignore the local climate and

still be buildings but today as we do

know I think all good architecture today

must respond to the local climate the

truth is that

we some of us quite enjoy a lot of

conspiracy which I would always depend

because you want to you know we spend so

much time indoors so we wanted to have

glass but the thermal performance of the

glass is always a challenge and it is a

challenge in winter and in summer I

would say that has shaped most of the

project that we've been working on for

the last few decades

you know this constant struggle of I

want to enjoy the great year out but you

have to respond to the climate and

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this a lot in my role as environmental

engineer for Foster's we tend to look at

climates all over the world in some of

the most unusual places and in some

quite particular climate and I don't I

think without doubt I can't I can't

imagine a building where we haven't

responded sometimes with form sometimes

with shape it it depends with forever

looking at ways to harness as much of

the climate as we can and therefore the

actual positioning of a building on a

site so it could be as in significant as

orientation or a significant is actually

transforming our form to respond to a

certain type of either solar exposure

wind exposure

rain catchment so they yield from and

from generation it's always influencing

everything we do we will always respond

and I was having my in my experience of

working environmental design since the

beginning have that's been a focus part

of my effort

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