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

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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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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0:00.0	It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:06.3	The effects of a fast warming planet mean unpredictable weather is becoming a norm of
0:10.6	modern life.
0:11.9	Alyssa Amor Gibbons is a resilience designer who considers how to embrace nature given
0:17.2	the changes we're seeing.
0:18.7	In our talk from Ted 2022, Gibbons explains how design can work with nature and help protect
0:24.2	us from the most extreme aspects of it.
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1:07.1	What's up with the weather?
1:08.4	If you're confused about climate change, there's a show for you.
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