ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the concept of resilience and adaption. The built environment contributes to social interactions and shared value. The chapter examines the major strategies in achieving resilient design. Conserving the amount of raw materials used and embodied energy is a large part of resilience and adaptation achieved through reusing existing buildings or building materials. This keeps millions of tons of viable materials out of landfills. In the Age of Agriculture, the ancient stepwells of India offer some of the earliest examples of resilient design, where very large and very deep “open wells” that captured and stored water from the rainy seasons to be used later in the dry months. Environmental psychology and environmental design are two fields that study the effect of buildings or urban environments on their occupants. The built environment greatly affects on personal, societal, and cultural levels, this is sometimes referred to as “Place.”
