How climate change is turning remote Indigenous houses into dangerous hot boxes

For too long architects have been pre-occupied with using passive design principles to mitigate the need for air-conditioning. Design in the north of Australia has often been done through a lens of ‘thermal moralism’ –  seeing the need for air-conditioning as a failure of good design. But as this article (and other research we’ve contributed to [see here]) describes, living without air-conditioning is becoming increasingly difficult and this will only worsen as temperatures rise across the north.