Climate Design
Architecture shaped by sun, air, heat and the realities of place — passive cooling, ventilation, shading and climate-responsive facades, with evidence.
Climate design begins before equipment selection. Orientation, shade, envelope depth, urban surfaces, ventilation paths and the sequence between inside and outside determine how much work a building asks its systems to do.
This archive brings building-scale and street-scale decisions together. Each story identifies the climate assumptions behind a strategy and marks the point where modelling, engineering, code review or measured performance is still required.
Published stories
- Balcony Thermal Bridges: How to Read the Slab Edge
A balcony is an environmental junction as well as an outdoor room. Follow the load path, thermal layer and threshold to ask better questions before the slab edge is built.
- Urban Heat Island Design: 8 Ways to Cool City Streets
A reflective roof cannot make an exposed pavement comfortable by itself. Cooler streets require shade, useful planting, careful surfaces and evidence from the places people actually walk.
- Passive House vs Net Zero: The Difference Architects Must Get Right
Passive House reduces demand through a verified fabric-first standard; Net Zero balances annual energy use with renewable generation. The strongest projects understand where the two overlap—and where they do not.
- Courtyard House Design: 9 Moves for Light, Privacy and Cooling
A compact courtyard is not leftover space. Its proportions, openings, surfaces and planting can organise an entire home—if light, privacy and airflow are designed together.
- Climate-Responsive Facades: 7 Strategies for Better Cooling
A climate-responsive facade is not a decorative skin. It is a coordinated environmental system that manages sun, heat, air and daylight before mechanical cooling begins.
- The House After the Grid: Five Passive-Cooling Moves
Courtyard Wind House is an original, unbuilt design study asking a direct question: when mechanical cooling pauses, which architectural decisions can still slow heat, move air and preserve a more habitable interior?