Given the increasing pressures of climate instability, urban architecture must abandon modern perceptions of comfort, reorienting its ranges from optimal to livable, creating comfort through passive environmental exchange rather than continuous technological intervention. Redefining how spaces are occupied, buildings can no longer be conceived as sealed and tightly regulated environments, instead, the design must allow for inhabitants to shift through the building as their occupiable space contracts, expands and changes depending on external climatic conditions. Human perception plays a critical role in comfort, requiring the building to incorporate layered, adjustable components that allow occupants to actively shape their experience in response to fluctuating external conditions. The building inhabits the grid as a site of refusal, present in form but operationally withdrawn, sustaining itself through systems that reject surrounding infrastructure.
