Flood Resilient Architecture for the 21st Century
Flood Resilient Buildings, Roca London Gallery Spring 2020 Exhibition London
Flood Resilient Architecture
Roca London Gallery Spring Exhibition for 2020 – curated by Eva Woode
10 Jan 2020
Sea Change: Flood Resilient Architecture for the 21st Century
1 February ? 16 May 2020
Exhibition Curator: Eva Woode
Location: Roca London Gallery, Station Court, Townmead Road, London, SW6 2PY, England, UK
Marlies Rohmer Architects? Floating Houses, IJburg, Netherlands:
images courtesy of Roca
Roca?s spring exhibition explores how architecture is having to adapt to a growing climate reality: urban flooding.
A recent RIBA report shows that 1 in 6 UK homes are currently vulnerable to flooding, with that number expected to double by 2050. With water causing an average of £1.4 billion of damage each year to UK businesses and households, architecture has to start helping us ‘live with water’, since prevention measures are simply proving inadequate. There is nothing new about flooding: mankind has been dealing with it since the ark. What is new is that human-induced climate change is now impacting at a faster pace than ever predicted, with global warming melting ice caps to raise sea levels and driving up rainfall rates, as well as increasing wind speeds and flash floods.
Exhibition curator Eva Woode says ?most architects are now aware of the fact that the construction industry is a huge contributor to CO2 emissions. However, we are still learning about how to adapt to thi...
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