Apocalyptic Architecture
Architectural visions exploring design responses to catastrophic futures, environmental collapse, and societal transformation.
Neo-Covenant: A Runner-up Settlement Where Returning Spacefarers Meet Lalibela's Underground Survivors
An expandable habitat in Lalibela, Ethiopia, fuses energy, food, research and memory into one artificial ecosystem for a humanity relearning Earth.
Moscow Metro Shelter: Turning the Underground Network into a City That Keeps Everyday Life Running
Three designers recast Moscow's deep metro stations as linked habitat nodes, arguing that survival architecture must protect routine, not just bodies.
Recolonizing Home: A Himalayan Survival Machine for a Planet Drowned to Its Peaks
An Editor's Choice colony on Mount Kanchenjunga stacks water, oxygen, food and energy systems into one tapering tower shaped by wind and rising seas.
e-den: A Mangrove-Inspired Seed for Recolonizing and Repairing a Post-Apocalyptic Earth
Shortlisted in Architecture of the Apocalypse 2020, e-den recasts colonization as repair: a mangrove-like seed that shelters people and heals land.
Assembling the Ruin: Toward a Recyclable Architecture
Thoughts and methodologies
The Ark: An Egg-Shaped Vertical Colony Built to Outlast a Ruined Climate
A shortlisted Apocalypse 2020 entry that wraps farms, ponds and homes inside a 3D-printed lattice egg, turning shelter into a closed-loop ecosystem.
Babylon 20.20: A Vertical Survival System Rising Above Toxic Smog
A speculative post-apocalyptic habitat filters poisoned air, harvests water, and rebuilds community through vertical modular architecture.
Cosmic (Re)Connection:
Unveiling New Architectural Narratives Through Cosmic Insights
KRISIS: A Survival School Embedded in Athens' Abandoned Airport
Katarina Bankovic transforms a former Olympic site into a modular humanitarian workshop where architecture simulates normalcy for displaced communities.
SO WHAT?...IF SO!: Stripping Architecture Back to a Nude Canvas in Tokyo
A modular 'Nude Building' concept uses AR, VR, and holographic overlays to challenge generic urbanism and invite cultural evolution.
Longa-polis: Diagnosing the City as a Body Under Duress
A speculative megastructure treats late-stage capitalism as a spatial pathogen, proposing an immune response built from steel, ritual, and confrontation.
Toxic TerRAIN: Survival Architecture Suspended Above a Poisoned Manhattan
A post-apocalyptic research habitat perched on the Queensboro Bridge reimagines water, waste, and adaptive reuse in the year 2139.
