What is a home but a shelter? Where should the line be drawn regarding how much protection from the elements a home should provide, and how impervious a home should be to the outside world? To what extent should structural integrety be sacrificed to save expense, then compensated with insurance for the unpredictable? Perhaps the question lies in the level of predictability.
In 2018 the National Weather Service updated its flood models in response to the natural disaster prediction model previously used being no longer accurate as storms, fires, and floods become more extreme. As a result, millions of people in the U.S. stand to lose their insurance coverage, if they have not already. The inevitable result being communities in disaster prone areas becoming uninhabitable wastelands. Also inevitable is the great migration that will follow once disaster strikes in these susceptible regions. But where are the people going to go in a country already in a housing crisis?
First Street Foundation stats on properties at risk for:
Wind- 23.9 million
Wildfire- 4.4 million
Flooding- 12 million, (in addition to (FEMA)’s Special Flood Hazard Areas, already deemed uninsurable by private insurance companies.
At Anthropolis we chose to frame the climate crisis as an opportunity to revitalize the American spirit of innovation and spark a new era of prosperity based on ecological understanding. To create brand new, forward thinking, communities in regions deemed safe havens from the worst impacts of climate change. To reimagine “community” based on our current understanding of anthropological needs and functional group size. We see the necessity for change as an opportunity for creating sustainable habitation, transportation infrastructure, and food supply through the use of biomimetics and indigenous practices.
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