Meteorological Architecture

“Climate change is forcing us to rethink architecture radically, to shift our focus away from a purely visual and functional approach towards one that is more sensitive, more attentive to the invisible, climate-related aspects of space. Slipping from the solid to the void, from the visible to the invisible, from metric composition to thermal composition, architecture as meteorology opens up additional, more sensual, more variable dimensions in which limits fade away and solids evaporate…

Between the infinitely small of the physiological and the infinitely vast of the meteorological, architecture must build sensual exchanges between body and space and invent there new aesthetical philosophies approaches capable of making long-term changes to the form and the way we will inhabit buildings tomorrow.” -Philippe Rahm

I find the concept of meteorological architecture to be very interesting. Philippe Rahm essentially believes that architecture's primary purpose is not to manipulate brick, glass, steel, etc. but instead the elements of heat, light, and air for example. It is neat to think about because I typically design a space to shield/protect the user from these elements, whereas Rahm is suggesting that maybe we should instead manipulate these elements or take advantage of them in a new/different way. I think it is more important now than ever to be designing in regard to sustainability and climate change issues.