How to design climate resilient buildings Alyssa-Amor Gibbons TED

Architecture cannot ignore the realities of climate change. For proven solutions that perform in extreme conditions, designer Alyssa-Amor Gibbons says we should look to traditional buildings. Taking us to her home in Barbados, where hurricane season is unforgiving and freak storms are increasingly common, Gibbons highlights the brilliance of endemic designs designed to work with nature rather than against it.

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