Creative Empathy: Architecture, Environment and Future Challenges

As environment and climate continue to change, architecture must re-establish a deeper and more conscious relationship with nature and place. Lori, building engineer and R&D Manager at Mario Cucinella Architects, presents a selection of the practice’s projects showing the close connections between the natural and the built environments and highlighting the need for an empathetic design approach that responds to climate and ongoing transformations. The projects presented demonstrate how architecture can activate regeneration and renewal, contributing to the quality of the built environment and to people’s everyday lives. The study and interpretation of climate are fundamental tools to understand the limits and potentials of each place and to develop design strategies that enhance its characteristics. The relationship with nature and the ability to adapt to change become key elements in ensuring high levels of environmental comfort and in making urban spaces more livable, resilient and inclusive.