Resilient Design Roundtable

摘要

Metal Architecture: What is resilient design and how important is this concept to your practice? Alex Wilson: Resilient design is a process of creating buildings and communities that will not only be safer in a world of increasing risks and vulnerabilities, but also better adapted to what are likely to be changing conditions with the advent of climate change. Relative to my long-term focus on sustainability, resilient design provides a motivation to create buildings that are more sustainable. With resilient design, for example, we may create highly energy-efficient buildings that will maintain habitable conditions in the event of an extended power outage-those buildings will keep occupants safe, but they will also minimize environmental impacts.