Designing for the Climate Emergency: A Guide for Architecture Students

Sofie Pelsmakers is an environmental architect, educator and researcher. She is author of The Environmental Design Pocketbook, co-author of Energy | People | Buildings and co-guest editor of Design Studio Volume 1 Everything Needs to Change. She is currently Associate Professor at Tampere University, Finland, where she teaches sustainable architecture. Elizabeth Donovan (she/her) is an educator, researcher and architect with a focus in holistic sustainable architecture, specialising on the plethora of design approaches, history and theory, lexicon, and bridging discourse and practice. She is currently an Assistant Professor in sustainable architecture at Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark. Aidan Hoggard is an architect and educator with a focus on holistic sustainable design and architectural education in a climate emergency. He is currently Director of Learning and Teaching and co-leader of the MSc in Sustainable Architecture at the School of Architecture at Sheffield University in the UK. Ula Kozminska is an architect, researcher and educator with a focus on circular architecture, materials and structures, designing with reused materials and for the future reuse, and implications of circular design for urban planning. She is currently Assistant Professor in Sustainable Architecture in Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark.

Introduction Chapter 0: Climate Emergency Fundamentals Chapter 1: Exploring Your Context: Researching and Analysing Your Site (Step 1) Chapter 2: Defining a Design Concept, Creating Values and Goals (Step 2) Chapter 3: Imagining Climate Emergency Design Strategies (Step 3) Chapter 4: Testing and Developing Climate Emergency Design Strategies (Step 4) Chapter 5: Validating and Communicating Your Approach (Step 4 & 5) Afterword Annex I: Technical insulation data table Annex II: Worked Example of U-Value Calculation Glossary Further Reading