The “Adapting architecture to climate” subproject is part of a larger research project at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. Research into adapting architecture to climate will be one element of a larger effort to identify a cohesive strategy towards a new tectonically sustainable building culture.

The aim of the primary project, “Towards a tectonically sustainable building culture", is to bring the field of tectonics up to date, and make it easier to apply in sustainable building culture research and practice by working out models and methods. One of the key questions in the main project is: What new initiatives will be necessary in order to be able to develop a strong tectonic building culture taking into account growing climate and environment problems?

Climate change is making it increasingly important for architects involved in construction to take sustainability and climate change into account. A number of new and more ambitious approaches to sustainability in architecture will therefore arise in the future. These approaches need to be analysed, and their environmental and architectural potential needs to be discussed. The “Adapting architecture to climate" subproject will contribute to this process.

It is important that society converts to climate-adapted construction and the subproject will prepare the way for this. Possible strategies also need to be described and analysed. The aim is to set new goals for sustainability in architecture.

The project is receiving support from the Danish Council for Independent Research - Humanities, a joint initiative by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, the Aarhus School of Architecture, and the Danish Building Research Institute.