Climate change and architecture. Environmental awerness. Kyoto protocol. Ecological footprint. Malmo sustainable regeneration. Medellin social urbanism. Favara and Farm Cultural Park.

1. The Planetary Boundaries
Alberto Iacovoni, Marialuisa Palumbo | Cornell in Rome

2. 1. About Climate

9. IABR, The International
Architecture Biennale
Rotterdam, The Flood, curator
Adriaan Geuze, 2005

10. New Orleans, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina

11. New York, October 2012, Hurricane Sandy

12. 2. The four Elements
Hanyuan county, Sichuan province, China

13. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, January 2014

17. 3. Sources and Sinks

18. Earth's Human Population
1800 - 1 billion
1900 - 1,5 billion
2000 - 6 billion
2050 - 9 billion

19. 1962

20. 1972

21. Stockholm 1972,
United Nations
Conference on the
Human Environment

23. RIO DECLARATION ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

24. 
172 governments participated
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(with 116 sending their heads of state or government)

2,400 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) attended
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17,000 people at the parallel NGO "Global Forum"

25. The Kyoto Protocol implemented the objective of the UNFCCC to fight
global warming by reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the
atmosphere to "a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic
interference with the climate system".
The Protocol is based on the principle of common but differentiated
responsibilities: it puts the obligation to reduce current emissions on
developed countries on the basis that they are historically responsible
for the current levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

26. The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen the global response
to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this
century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to
pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5
degrees Celsius. Additionally, the agreement aims to strengthen the
ability of countries to deal with the impacts of climate change.

27. 4. Footprints

34. Israel/Palestine separation wall

35. 5. Design for social impact:
building mitigation, adaptation, resilience

39. Transmission lines

42. Landfill

46. 6. Malmö, the most ambitious climate tergets

67. 7. Medellín, the most educated

70. “First came respect and [the idea] to give value to the local
conditions, give value to the memories. There is a lot of
value. Sometimes because you have some different
preconceptions and you belong to a different world, it is
difficult for you to see the value of these things. I am talking
not only about the value of the physical environment. I am
talking about the value of the social engagement, the
economy, most of it informal, but they have a lot of solidarity,
networks and so on… The process of Medellín, the
singularity is some special sensibility about local conditions
and houses and thinking that it is better to add than to erase.”
Alejandro Echeverri, Medellín’s Director of Urban Projects

78. Parque Biblioteca España, Giancarlo Mazzanti, 2005-2008

80. Antonio Derka School, Obranegra Arquitectos, 2008-2014

82. Orquideorama in Medellin Botanical Garden, Plan B - Felipe Mesa, Alejandro Bernal + JPRCR -
Camilo Restrepo, J. Paul Restrepo, 2006-2008

85. Parque Explora, Alejandro Echeverri, 2008

88. “UVA (Unidades De Vida Articulada) de la imaginación” Water park, COLECTIVO 720 SAS.
Mario Fernando Camargo Gómez, Luis Orlando Tombé, 2014-2015

89. Global Holcim Awards Gold 2015, Water reservoirs as public park

92. 8. Favara, the next generation Cultural Center

93. Favara Cultural Park, Favara

115. “We were tired of always having to go to places like New York or
London to see anything interesting"
"We wanted to find a way to transform and improve the area we
were living in, for ourselves but also for our kids."
Andrea Bartoli

125. “I don’t have any official figures, but what’s happened over the last
few years is truly staggering. There isn’t a single building in the
historic town centre that hasn’t been the subject of sale, and today
isn’t being transformed for tourist and cultural purposes. Favara
used to have just one hotel with 15 rooms; now there’s a continual
proliferation of holiday homes, country retreats and B&Bs. A
stone’s throw from the Sette Cortili (or “seven courtyards”, the
oldest part of the town), work is being completed on an urban
resort designed by Architrend. Not to mention restaurants,
pizzerias, putie (studios)... Last summer, from June to September,
FARM and Favara welcomed nearly 40,000 visitors, a number
expected to rise by 15% this year.”
Andrea Bartoli