Climate-Adaptive Architecture and Passive Design Strategies

To train participants in the principles and practices of climate-responsive and passive architecture, enabling them to create buildings and environments that are energy-efficient, resilient, and context-sensitive.

• Promote sustainable, low-carbon architecture in diverse climate zones

• Equip designers with skills to create energy-efficient and resilient buildings

• Encourage integration of vernacular wisdom with modern design tools

• Support global climate goals through built environment transformation

• Foster interdisciplinary approaches between architecture, environment, and technology

Day 1: Foundations of Climate-Adaptive Design

• Bioclimatic Architecture and Ecological Urbanism

• Climate Zones and Regional Response Mapping

• Building Orientation, Massing, and Site Context

• Understanding Vernacular Responses to Climate

Day 2: Passive Design Strategies in Practice

• Passive Cooling: Ventilation, Shading, Courtyards, Earth Tubes

• Passive Heating: Thermal Mass, Trombe Walls, Sunspaces

• Daylighting and Glare Control

• Simulation Tools: Climate Consultant, Ladybug Tools, Rhino/Grasshopper

Day 3: Design Studio & Performance Optimization

• Thermal Comfort Modeling (PMV, UTCI, Operative Temp)

• Integrated Building Envelope Design

• Climate-Responsive Facades and Adaptive Skins

• Final Exercise: Develop a Climate-Adaptive Concept Plan for a Building

• Learn to apply passive and climate-adaptive design principles

• Use digital tools to simulate and optimize building performance

• Understand cultural and contextual responses to environmental challenges

• Design with reduced energy dependence and enhanced user comfort

• Receive a professional certificate in Climate-Adaptive Architecture

• Architecture and planning students

• Practicing architects and urban designers

• Civil and environmental engineers

• Green building professionals and sustainability consultants

• Real estate developers and policy stakeholders in construction