Sustainable design?

 Continuing on a similar topic as last week, this week I will be discussing Philippe Rahm’s “Towards a meteorological architecture”. Similar to Inaki, Philippe is trying to explore the different outcomes that could be achieved if architects were designing using meteorology as a fundamental building block rather than a forgotten after thought. I think he, similar to Inaki, is being a bit too narrow minded on the legitimacy of designing with this strategy. He stated that “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”. I believe this to be incorrect, if all architects were to design their buildings solely by focusing on the invisible,climate-related aspects of space rather than the visible and programmatic functions of the space, we would all be creating very boring inefficient buildings. In today’s day and age efficient programmatic layouts are key because they are cost effective for the client. This way of designing would for sure lead to inefficient buildings that would then become neglected unused buildings. These unused building’s would ironically hurt the environment that it was so desperately trying to protect.