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City Vulnerability: Projects, Journals & Ideas

19 Projects 10 Journals 1 Publications 2 Competitions

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City vulnerability explores how designers and architects address the physical and social fragility of urban environments. This includes strategies for disaster relief, adaptive reuse of failing infrastructure, and protective design that responds to environmental and humanitarian crises.

The community examines case studies ranging from post-war shelter adaptation and bioclimatic public space interventions to community-centered recovery frameworks and adaptive architecture for dense urban areas affected by disaster, vacancy, or systemic decline.

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Vidushi and 3 others

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SYMBIOSIS

The design proposes self sustaining neighbourhoods which are a result of self sustaining households. The neighbourhood is planned in sync, all houses are dependant on an aerial avenue running along the backyard of the dwelling units and consequently on each other. The aerial avenue allows connectivity to places even during floods.

vaishali and 4 others

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T.I.M.E. HEALS

Habitat when tarnished disrupts lifestyle causing emotional, mental and financial losses which creates scars forever. So, it is necessary to heal from the beginning by converting the exhausting period of struggle into a motivating environment with interactive neighbourhood. Our system unites the community by various incremental measure at different levels.

Aswin and 4 others

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Safe (X)

A planning outline for scalable 100 units regenerative community housing model is proposed and the strategies are refined from a Master plan level to dwelling unit level, along with an action plan for functionally surviving the flood. Safe (X) is a unique model which can be adapted in any location which ensures the safety of all communities considered.

Manika

HOPE

The project presents low cost, regenerative housing strategies for faster rehabilitation to a recovering Aluva. Suggestive prototypes rooted to context are proposed.

esha and 2 others

COCOON Heal // Kerala

Heal//Kerala

seba and Lekshmy

SAIRA: Shared And Individual Response for Action

A natural disaster disrupts people's pursuit of happiness and forces them to restart their lives from scratch. What we need today is a resilience strategy that is not just focused on generating housing stock but looks to empower people to take positive action during any disaster in the future.

menka and 2 others

Communal Resilience

Communal Resilience symbolizes the combined ability of a community to use locally available materials to fight, withstand and recover from any threatening peril or calamity. It is a project to instill a feeling of alliance with an environment that is shared. So, when the calamity eventually hits, the decision of living together will be the preferred.

Dzmitry and Krokhin

Regenerative housing concept for Kerala

One could either try and turn local population into extreme survivalists a-la ones from post-apocalyptic movies or find a way to create some sort of a community, that in its development would be informed by external shocks and possibly even could benefit from them, thus becoming truly antifragile. We would very much prefer the second!

Kei and Giulia

A manual for Kerala

The project aims to analyze the main characters within the social network, creating an adaptable and scalable web of subjects.

Mst. Khairun

From Fragility to Resilience: An Integrated Approach to Coastal Settlement on Kutubdia Island

This thesis focuses on Kutubdia Island, where climate change is already causing severe land loss, displacement, and livelihood insecurity. Recognizing that relocation is not feasible for many residents, the study explores how architecture can support resilient, adaptive, and sustainable communities while preserving local livelihoods and social ties.

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