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Clay architecture in Provence
Pániková, Natália ; Achten, Henri (referee) ; Kaftan, Martin (advisor)
Huge extremes in weather behavior in past years make me thinking closer to the climate changes architecture. An architecture that can bring better living. As for the specific area of interest I choose Provence in France, where the weather is extreme in comparison with other parts of France and temperatures are increasing every day. In this region hot weather was always present, but in modern standards, comfort zone of indoor space is rather unsatisfactory and modern houses are normally equiped with air conditioning from the beginning. The need for this is a global problem of rising temperatures as well as change in building the houses. In history houses were build from noble limestone material which thermal capacity was able to keep indoor cooler for longer time in summer and also warm inside longer in winter. Nowadays, there is shortage of the limestone, thnaks to which its price is rising and socialy lower layers of society choose the much less expensive option - concrete in its poured version - for appartment buildings or as concrete blocks for single houses. Provence is a region where we can to the contrary expect many changes in the future. And it is not only rising temperatures, but also abnormal extreme weather or rising level of the sea, due to global weather cycles.
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