SURVIVAL

Push off the bottom or swim to the surface and proceed shoreward in a trough between waves. Do not fight against the pull of the undertow. Swim with it or perpendicular to it until it loses strength, then swim for shore.

What are you thinking now??

Well, I am not gonna teach you survival techniques at sea, woods, dessert, rocks or any other possible jeopardous space. But I am gonna talk about survival. The survival of human species at the place we are living in this era of climate change. Human species can only survive if the predicament of the city they are living in are survivable.

So, I am gonna talk about….

“the SURVIVAL OF CITIES IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE”.

If you have seen the movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, I guess you have a rough idea of what is I am talking about.

Well, I am not gonna discuss what is Global Warming in gross details but I would like to acquaint you with the very basic concept that the amount of green house gases like CO2 are raising, causing global rise in the temperature of the climate. And this global warming is not only increasing the precipitate but also relocating them and as a result a lot of capricious tragedies have been unfolding worldwide in the regions they have not ever been expected to happen.

What are we doing for climate change???

Making green buildings….

But are these Green Buildings sustainable???

And the answer is absolutely NO

They are just more efficient buildings

Making sustainable architecture….

But is this Sustainable Architecture gonna SURVIVE???

And the answer is again NO

Survival is far different from sustainance

Confused???

There is a MISCONCEPTION that “What all we are making sustainable architecture will lead us to survival.”

In my Dissertation, I’ll try to clear this misconception and tell you how we can actually SURVIVE.

For now, I am leaving you with the following question…

Can a beautiful zero energy house made up materials with ‘low embodied energy’ and using natural resource of energies like photovoltaic and wind energy, located at beach, survive Tsunami ???