Building and accommodating for future climates is an ongoing challenge and one that is being approached in a variety of ways. From floating buildings to creating self-sufficient homes, the global population has a growing range of sustainable living options available.
However, for truly long-term, sustainable living solutions, architecture must surpass carbon neutrality and embrace carbon negative, or climate positive, approach of removing more carbon from the atmosphere than is produced. Leading innovations such as Powerhouse Brattørkaia in Norway prove that you do not need a permanently warm, sunny climate to be energy positive.
Designs like these could help to mitigate the damage caused by deforestation and the rise of carbon emissions. Combined with smart sensors to allow for automatic monitoring and regulation of energy and water consumption, this could well represent the cities of the future.
