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The project presents a method for designing and applying adaptive measures and a speculation on the implications of designed adapted elements on småhus with a focus on rain, flooding and their effects. Both method and speculation is a response to actors voicing their concerns about the current pace of climate adaptation within Sweden.

The method builds upon dissecting the building into separate elements which each require responding to certain conditions based on weather phenomena through prescribed measures borrowed from the field of building physics. Combining two or more adapted elements creates the adapted assembly which in turn becomes the adapted building. Through the use of references the adaptive measures move beyond building physics into architectural design. To test the method it is speculatively applied to a site/context on the Swedish west coast. Here conditions on national, regional, urban, local and property level are considered when simultaneously designing and adapting a building with the goal of producing a fictional but realizable insurable property. The implications of the insurable property does not stop at it’s inherent insurability but the possible benefits reach beyond individual economy through its scalability and potential of critical mass into regional resilience and stability.

In the face of climate change and it’s current and future effects; we can redirect our perspective of weather. Not seeing it as ally nor enemy but simply that of condition, to which the design of the built environment must respond, as risk or possibility. Accepting the weather’s architectural authorship, through the weathering of buildings. Weather is not bad, nor good, Weather is.