Inviting Disaster
Architecture’s inertia amidst a changing climate
Graduate Architecture Thesis Proposal | Taught by: Scott Wall | Fall 2023
Climate change is intensifying, multiplying, and shifting long-understood natural disaster zones.
These zones now encroach upon eastern United States cities that are not prepared. How can architecture respond?
This M. Arch thesis proposal lays the groundwork for Spring 2024 thesis studio wherein form, functionality, and underpinnings of today’s vulnerable architectural practice are examined through a critical lens.
Images: User-generated and augmented AI images using Midjourney and Adobe Photoshop Beta generative fill tech highlight attitudes surrounding the state of architectural practice.
Ground plane involvement- community shelter and events center
Explorations of harnessing stormwater in meaningful ways, reducing erosion of our built fabrics
Disaster infrastructures - an idea to divert storms via heat generation. A concept with scientific backing.
Can architectures of the near future capture a storm's energy?
From the bucolic to the urban scales of community, how do our responses change?
Our cities are currently not prepared to handle tornadic activity, and we are vulnerable.
“We would argue... that it is meaningless to study the consequences of climate change without considering the range of adaptive responses that will substantially alter any initial impacts.”
W. Neil Adger and P. Mick Kelly
SOCIAL VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF ENTITLEMENTS