AHA presents: BUILDING TOMORROW

Reimagining Architectural Heritage for a Changing Climate

Over the next several decades, climate change will become more extreme. To cope with changes in the environment, people will need to build differently. At the same time, the comforts of home will grow more important. Architecture will have to adapt to a new reality without becoming alienating.

Combining the sciences and the arts, the [Consortium for Climate-Adapted Architectural Heritage][link:https://www.ibp.fraunhofer.de/en/projects-references/climate-adapted-architectural-heritage.html] explores future climates in terms of geographically-based climate analogs, helping people to reimagine home by learning from housing in places that currently have the climate they’re likely to encounter in the future.

In this conversation between Consortium co-directors Jonathon Keats and Ralf Kilian, you’ll find out how different architectural traditions contend with extreme weather. Using this knowledge, you’ll learn creative ways in which to apply traditional ecological knowledge from elsewhere to make your home environment sustainable.

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The project will be on display from 3 to 5 July 2025 at the Deutsches Museum in Munich as part of the Festival of the Future. On 2 July, from 1 to 5 PM, a hands-on workshop will invite the public to explore new ways of transforming existing residential buildings in a climate-conscious and culturally sensitive manner. Further info & registration: https://www.ibp.fraunhofer.de/en/events-fairs/climate-adapted-architectural-heritage.html