Climate Adaptation for Architects

Allison H. Anderson, FAIA, is the founding principal of unabridged Architecture, a firm recognized for incorporating sustainability, climate change adaptation, and resilience across a wide variety of project scales. Allison was the first LEED‑Accredited Professional in Mississippi, focused on sustainability. After Hurricane Katrina devastated her community, unabridged Architecture began exploring resilience and climate adaptation. Her research is included in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science, the AIA Resilient Project Process Guide, AIA Climate Action Playbook, and the AIA Framework for Design Excellence. Allison has taught architecture at the University of Texas, Tulane University, and Louisiana State University. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

‘Resilience for architects is a matter of understanding how climate hazards threaten to damage and destroy a building and making hundreds of well-informed design decisions. Allison Anderson’s book, Climate Adaptation for Architects, is written with the obvious insight of a practicing architect who has made those hundred of decisions many times and lives up to the responsibility to make buildings that will stand the tests of increasing risks’. David Perkes, AIA, Professor, Mississippi State University‘The rising number of climate-related disasters worldwide make investing in adaptation increasingly critical. This is an essential resource for designers working at multiple scales to ensure that planning, infrastructure, and buildings are prepared for disasters’. Amy Chester, Director, Rebuild by Design‘Resilient design is essential if we choose to protect people and property from a warmer, more chaotic climate. Luckily, the path forward is clear thanks to Climate Adaptation for Architects: A Design Toolkit. With design strategies that cover the full breadth of challenges we face, every architect now has the tools necessary to design for the future we know is coming’. Corey Squire, author of People, Planet, Design: A Practical Guide to Realizing Architecture’s Potential‘Climate Adaptation for Architects provides essential knowledge to drive the crucial need to integrate resilience and adaptation into the built environment. The book is a comprehensive guide to adaptive design solutions at all scales – from materials to community scale, from theory to application. The clear organization by risk category, with great illustrations, makes the book easily accessible as a go-to guide. It should be an indispensable resource for all architects, from students to seasoned professionals’. Mary Ann Lazarus, FAIA LEED Fellow, Architect and Consultant, Cameron MacAllister Group, Adjunct Faculty, Washington University in St. Louis

• INTRODUCTION Part 1. HEAT 1. HEAT RESPONSE NETWORKS 2. POLICY OF SHADE 3. URBAN COOLING WITH WATER 4. COOL CORRIDORS 5. REFLECTIVE + ABSORPTIVE SITES 6. WILDFIRE PROTECTION 7. AIR QUALITY 8. PASSIVE DESIGN, PASSIVE SURVIVABILITY 9. SOLAR CONTROL 10. COOL ENVELOPE 11. BUILDING ELECTRIFICATION 12. UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER Part 2. WATER 13. TOPOGRAPHY + RISK 14. RETREAT + REALIGNMENT 15. NEARSHORE BREAKWATERS 16. MODULAR REVETMENTS 17. SEAWALLS, FLOODWALLS, LEVEES + BERMS 18. INFILTRATION ZONES, RIPARIAN BUFFERS + LIVING SHORELINES 19. ELEVATED ROADWAYS 20. RECONNECTING WATER 21. THE ELEVATED COMMONS 22. FLOOD BARRIERS + GATES 23. CORNICHE 24. ELEVATION 25. WET + DRY FLOODPROOFING 26. FLOATING STRUCTURES Part 3. WIND 27. WIND ANALYSIS 28. SPATIAL TEXTURE 29. TEMPORARY HOUSING 30. DEFENSIBLE LANDSCAPE 31. CONTINUOUS LOAD PATH 32. ENVELOPE + BREACH 33. COLLATERAL DAMAGE 34. SAFE ROOMS 35. EARTH SHELTER 36. EMERGENCY CACHE Part 4. SCARCITY 37. BIODIVERSITY + ADAPTATION 38. EDIBLE CITIES 39. BOUNDARIES TO GROWTH 40. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AFTER DISASTER 41. SOCIAL CAPITAL + SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE 42. NET-ZERO WATER 43. CIRCULARITY 44. ADAPTABLE + ADAPTIVE 45. ANTIFRAGILE