How to design climate-resilient buildings | Alyssa-Amor Gibbons
TED Talks Daily3 Tammi 2023

How to design climate-resilient buildings | Alyssa-Amor Gibbons

Architecture can't ignore the realities of climate change. For time-tested solutions that perform under extreme conditions, designer Alyssa-Amor Gibbons says we should look to traditional buildings. Taking us to her home of Barbados, where the hurricane season is unforgiving and freak storms are becoming more frequent, Gibbons points to the brilliance of endemic designs that are built to work with nature -- rather than against it.


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