It’s hot again, isn’t it? Due to climate change, the number of tropical days is increasing. Yet spatial plans and designs of buildings still take far too little account of this increasing heat stress. The impact of heat can be limited by providing sufficient shaded areas and routes, less pavement and more greenery, well-integrated outdoor sun protection and options for night-time ventilation.
Fortunately, there are already many examples of greened streets. But a real design and implementation strategy is often still lacking. Even on a building scale, good outdoor sun effect is often not yet designed or cut back in the implementation.
With temperatures forecasted to exceed 30°C this Saturday, June 21, the urgency of climate-adaptive design becomes even more evident, right in time for #OpenOfficeDay2025, part of Rotterdam Architecture Month! Don’t miss the opportunity to visit us and explore how we can design for a cooler, more resilient city. Learn about innovative measures we can implement to adapt our public spaces to a warming climate 🌞
And further check our project that we did for the municipality of Rotterdam, where we worked on spatial strategy in the context of ‘Weerwoord’ in which, based on building typologies and neighbourhood profiles, we looked at how heat can be tackled city-wide and what important focus areas are. View the project here.
