🏛 Episode 2 of Building Hope is live today!
Building Hope with Resilient, Adaptable Architecture
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We talk with Ava Omidvar, whose project explores the history of adaptable architecture and proposes an arts community on a site in Southwest DC, an area of the city already affected by climate change, but vulnerable to more extreme events in the near future. And we meet with Juhi Goel, who designed a mixed use tower with an engineered wood structure on the Boston waterfront to give people experiences of a more climate resilient future.
Both Ava and Juhi are committed to designing for resilience in the face of the certain disruptions of climate change. Ava tested her theory that even something as solid and weighty as a building can adapt to changing conditions such as extreme heat, urban flooding and unstable energy production. Juhi proposed a building that acts as a carbon sink and demonstrates earth-aligned ways to live, even in a dense city.
We’re currently in production to wrap up the season with Episode 6. It’s giving us a chance to reflect on what (and who) we’re building hope for. This was sparked by a rich conversation in the comments of last week’s post about episode 1.
This project is supported by a Faculty-Student Research Award from the Graduate School, University of Maryland, as well as grants from the University’s Sustainability Fund and the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation.