A cultural reaction, pertaining to environment design strategies in architecture, is a form of Organicism. This is when an architectural design as a whole reacts to the different elements, such as solar, water, wind and earth, to utilizes or controls their effects on living organisms.
An example of environmental design strategies in architecture that react organically is the Maison Tropicale, which was designed and commissioned by Jean Prouvé in 1949. This prefabricated tropical house is described as a humanistic response to nature in an architectural form. This response to nature is done by embracing the needs of the occupant through the utilization of its context. The design of the home reacts by the form of the roof, the specific openings for passive ventilation, the blue tinted glass for visual needs, the specifically placed louvers for shading and the raised platform for safety.
