+1 862 207 3288 1.0 INTRODUCTION
Climate has always been a point of departure for the design of buildings. Our built forms are essentially enclosures erected to protect us from the inclement external weather, while enabling some activity to take place (Bay & Ong, 2006). We discover that our changing lifestyle and consumption patterns over time have changed the way of we construct by an over-exploitation and injudicious use of our natural resources. This is having a negative impact on our climate and consequently on ourselves. We now need to change, and the new challenge is to seek refuge from tougher climate conditions with even more limited resources.
The world is already witnessing the severe and unprecedented consequences of the disturbance in climate. There is a global consensus that temperature extremes, rising sea level, flooding rains, low rainfall, droughts, heat waves, severe storms and mel…(short extract)
