Project description
Examining how climate change affects local building
Most individuals continue to reside in vernacular buildings rooted in local knowledge. Building design and evolution are influenced by climate. Consequently, various local resources and environmental conditions give rise to technical adaptations. Previous research has neglected the connection between materials and environmental conditions governing building evolution. The ERC-funded CLIMATE-Arch project investigates how climate change affects local building techniques in two Eurasian regions. It explores the factors steering changes in building design and technology by integrating climate research with architecture, engineering, environmental sciences and sociology. This research will be pivotal in generating accurate scientific assessments and establishing standards that strike a balance between conservation and modernisation.
Objective
The majority of the worlds population still live in vernacular buildings which are based on local knowledge. Climate has a significant impact on the use and evolution of local building techniques and building design. CLIMATE-Arch will focus on the processes involved in the transformation of local building techniques caused by climate and climate change. A wide range of local material resources and natural environmental conditions, and the effects of climate change, produce various kinds of technical adaptations. CLIMATE-Arch will explore these transformations and their drivers at the level of both building technology and building design, focusing on two regions in Eurasia that use a range of local building technologies.
Most previous research on the impact of climate change has taken a mono-disciplinary approach, in the main not considering the processes responsible for the evolution and transformation of buildings, which principally stem from the inextricable link between material and environmental conditions. CLIMATE-Arch will break new ground by examining the factors that trigger vernacular transformation through a climate lens, combining climate research and the disciplines of architecture, engineering, natural environmental sciences and sociology.
As the project will examine vernacular changes expected as a result of predicted climate change, the results will remain relevant long after the conclusion of the work. In the long term, the research of CLIMATE-Arch will be indispensable both for producing accurate scientific accounts and for establishing standards to balance conservation and modernization. The PIs extensive multi-disciplinary scientific experience makes him eminently qualified to lead CLIMATE-Arch and to coordinate the team of post-docs, PhD students and research assistant based at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA).
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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1010 Wien
Austria
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