Sustainable Design under Climate Responsive Environments

Dear Colleagues,

As the world grapples with a growing climate crisis, our academic research must focus on reducing the carbon footprint of buildings and mitigating ecosystem biodiversity disturbances. Due to the worldwide global warming, an increasing number of hazardous environmental disasters are taking place, caused by the human misunderstanding of the interactions of climate, nature, and buildings. Destroying new and retrofitting existing environments, and irretrievably destroying nature flora and fauna species biodiversity in the process, should no longer be the focus of short-sighted and mainly profit-oriented development. Traditional linear thinking will have to be replaced by more multidisciplinary team-oriented approaches, combining expertise in climate, ecology, biodiversity, energy efficiency, carbon footprint, as well as sociology and culture, to favor locally beneficial holistic environmental designs.

Such approaches must be grounded in an extensive comprehension of the precious heritage of specific cultures and sociology, coinciding with the small carbon footprints of “low-technology”, less industrialized 3rd-world countries, as well as the responsibilities of countries with “high technological” carbon footprints, such as Germany. Hence, an integral blending of these partly diametral experiences, technologies, and ecological and sociological issues could be very favorable for developing more holistic strategies toward more resilient, climate-responsive environments.

You may choose the Related Special Issue "Novel Concept and Technologies of Sustainable Building Design" in Applied Sciences.

5–6 October 2022, Online
1st International Symposium on “Climate Responsive Environments” (CRP 2022)
A summary of the conference can be found at the following link:
https://fh-muenster.sciebo.de/s/lZnLu6H2L6ABwHd

Welcome to read.

Prof. Jürgen Reichardt
Guest Editor

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