The South on the Horizon: Habitability 2050-2100
The Southern Hemisphere is an incredibly fertile and thought-provoking part of the world in terms of exploration and programming. A place for learning and a source of inspiration with the capacity to show us new practices in planning, construction, and rehabilitation—and adaptation to global warming.
This is part of the studio’s philosophy developed in the article “Learning from the South” whose title is a humble and respectful nod to the 1972 cult essay by Venturi and Scott-Brown. The Mediterranean and the Southern Hemisphere have a lot to teach us about how to build the city of tomorrow, so much in fact that we can justifiably propose the concept of bioclimatic principles for the South, based on a “code of the shade” drawing on geometry and topology, air flow patterns, and fractal design, deployed at every scale, from the material to the region.