Water and drainage
Roof, terrace and site drainage sized with margin for heavier, shorter rainfall events, and detailed so that a blockage does not become water inside the building.
Resilience
Climate adaptation.
Designing for the conditions a building will face over its life, not only the conditions of the year it was drawn.
In short
What this means in practice.
Adaptation means accepting that conditions will shift and building in tolerance: drainage that copes with heavier rainfall than the historic average, envelopes that handle wider temperature swings, and services that keep working when supply is interrupted.
Heat and cold tolerance
Shading, thermal mass and ventilation strategies that keep a building habitable during extremes rather than only comfortable in average conditions.
Dust
Kabul's dust affects ventilation, glazing, façade maintenance and mechanical plant. Designing for cleaning and filter access is a practical adaptation measure.
Room to change
Buildings that can be adapted — services that can be reached, layouts that can be altered — survive changing use and changing climate better than tightly optimised ones.
Common questions
Questions we are actually asked.
What does adaptation mean in practice here?
Drainage sized for heavier rainfall than the historic average, envelopes that handle wider temperature swings, and designing for dust — including access for cleaning and filter replacement.
Is it worth designing for conditions that may not arrive?
Margin is cheap at design stage and expensive to retrofit. Buildings built now will be standing for decades under conditions we cannot predict precisely.
Design in tolerance.
Margin costs a little at design stage and a great deal to retrofit.
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