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How to Design Climate-Resilient Buildings | Alyssa-Amor Gibbons | TED

Architecture can’t ignore the realities of climate change. For time-tested solutions that perform under extreme conditions, designer Alyssa-Amor Gibbons says we should look to traditional buildings. Taking us to her home of Barbados, where the hurricane season is unforgiving and freak storms are becoming more frequent, Gibbons points to the brilliance of endemic designs that…

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Architecture can’t ignore the realities of climate change. For time-tested solutions that perform under extreme conditions, designer Alyssa-Amor Gibbons says we should look to traditional buildings. Taking us to her home of Barbados, where the hurricane season is unforgiving and freak storms are becoming more frequent, Gibbons points to the brilliance of endemic designs that are built to work with nature — rather than against it.

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  1. Natt Hall

    January 13, 2023 at 12:45 pm

    Man she must be starving but I’m glad she learned to break wind stunning and brave

    • Madeline Pettingill

      January 13, 2023 at 1:54 pm

      Golly thanks for your educational opinion

  2. Sergio Paulo

    January 13, 2023 at 12:49 pm

    When Tensegrity Structures/Buildings?

  3. Andrew Spartan

    January 13, 2023 at 12:57 pm

    Poor girls ate all of the Caribbean and africas food. 😭 not nice of her.

  4. Murithi Mbaabu

    January 13, 2023 at 1:16 pm

    Awesome talk

  5. William Ying

    January 13, 2023 at 1:26 pm

    Biden administration is coming for your gas stoves, for your own good, to save your life. Does this woman know all the food she eats contribute to green house gas?

  6. Blah

    January 13, 2023 at 1:27 pm

    Shes got a climate resistant body for sure

  7. Abdulaziz Mirzaaxmedov

    January 13, 2023 at 2:00 pm

    Who understood that speech If someone is to understand you Will put a like

  8. sdozer1990

    January 13, 2023 at 2:08 pm

    This was a great talk. Bending, not breaking. It’s like earthquake-proofing skyscrapers in California. There’s a bridge in Rochester, NY that does this bending to withstand traffic and wind.

    • Chase Hatch

      January 15, 2023 at 4:42 am

      Excellent information! Are you from Rochester, or was this just a piece of prior knowledge?

  9. Michael Woods Mccausland

    January 13, 2023 at 2:13 pm

    Terraforming is the Indigenous MWM

  10. Britton Price

    January 13, 2023 at 2:14 pm

    “build back better”. b,b,b or 666.

  11. Michael Woods Mccausland

    January 13, 2023 at 2:16 pm

    California is being Hammered by the Same. Our Atmosphere is Charge it’s never been predictable. I/ We have the solution for weatger. The Climate is not changing the weather is. Your/ Our History has been subverted. Look to your Ancestors Auslane/ Absolom

  12. Michael Woods Mccausland

    January 13, 2023 at 2:18 pm

    Just like log cabins a house on the move. Craftsmanship is not low tech. Go with the flow! MWM

  13. Michael Woods Mccausland

    January 13, 2023 at 2:19 pm

    Wonderful you have turned to your ancestors

  14. Michael Woods Mccausland

    January 13, 2023 at 2:21 pm

    Open up your Life and live Symbiotically! Building the Future from the Past in the Present . Well done

  15. Neo Count

    January 13, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    Move

  16. Des

    January 13, 2023 at 3:14 pm

    Great talk!

  17. ひうゆしけーた

    January 13, 2023 at 3:38 pm

    don’t fight against nature,
    accept nature

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    January 13, 2023 at 4:34 pm

    🙏

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    January 13, 2023 at 4:55 pm

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    January 13, 2023 at 10:59 pm

    Thank you, for your, knowing sharing 🐺❤️

  22. Samuel Zev

    January 14, 2023 at 12:36 am

    So the solution to build a hurricane resistant building is to just make windows with diagonal inlet openings to let the wind pass through? What about build houses with bricks instead of wood?

  23. katherandefy

    January 14, 2023 at 12:37 am

    With a voice to match what she says with that amazing accent. I know. Maybe beside the point. But you had to listen.

  24. Priscilla Cyanni Morris

    January 14, 2023 at 12:40 am

    Sidebar: she’s beautiful!

  25. Andy Cordy

    January 14, 2023 at 8:38 am

    Excellent! Thank you! So full of emotion yet hitting back with pragmatism, lived experience and good science. I salute you and your work.

  26. Rosetta Swinton

    January 14, 2023 at 8:47 am

    This is by far the best TEDTalk I have ever heard! Thank you Alyssa-Amor Gibbons. Your are God’s design for such a time as this. God bless you.

  27. Raygun9000

    January 14, 2023 at 10:20 am

    Hmm, could the wind be funnelled through the sacrificial corridor to blow against the wind dampening it at critical locations? I guess you’d need concrete or some such for the funnel though.

    Actually, what it it were angled up? would it push the building down and possibly redirect some of the wind up?

  28. Preeti Sharan

    January 14, 2023 at 11:00 am

    Wonderful work to combine the elements of nature to make homes..👏🏻

  29. Kyle C

    January 14, 2023 at 1:35 pm

    She probably lives in a tent. Why would anyone listen to her 💀

  30. Essentric.Xpressions. T.J.S.

    January 14, 2023 at 8:12 pm

    Live in a land locked locating in the middle of U.S. I am thankful I don’t have to survive hurricanes anymore, however we do experience for weeks at a time , 80-120mph wind on clear days, they call them land hurricanes here, and when accompanied with rain it will destroy

  31. WonderMagician

    January 15, 2023 at 3:08 pm

    Brilliant presentation of desperately needed architectural responses to our destructive weather events that are destroying lives and homes all over our world.

  32. Hamza El Alami

    January 15, 2023 at 6:00 pm

    Great talk! Though I think this is more structural engineering than architecture

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