Earth house, heatwave shelter, wind tower… Welcome to 2050 in bioclimatic France. Anticipating repeated heatwaves and droughts, architects and local elected officials are now inventing organic houses, buildings and offices.
“We have rediscovered in the 21st century all the interest in old materials like straw or wood, which were widely used in recent centuries and then forgotten in the favor of concrete, in the 20th century,” explains the deputy mayor of Paris.