Disaster Resilient
Architecture and design approaches that help communities withstand, recover from, and adapt to disasters and crises.
RESILE-UBUNTU: Sustainable Architecture for Community Resilience in Kandahar
RESILE-UBUNTU uses sustainable architecture to unite secure housing, education, livelihoods and community resilience for widows in Kandahar.
Resile: Sustainable Architecture for Healing, Community and Resilience in Afghanistan
Resile uses sustainable architecture, courtyards, local clay and shared spaces to build a safer future for Afghan widows and children alike.
Resile: Sustainable Architecture for Afghan Widows and Community Resilience
Resile uses sustainable architecture and courtyard living to create a safe dignified community where Afghan widows and children can rebuild.
Resile: Sustainable Architecture for Rebuilding Community and Independence
Resile uses sustainable architecture to build a clay-based community where housing, education, care and shared life strengthen independence.
Community Based Development, Jamuna Riverbank: Stilted Bamboo Homes for a Village That Floods Every Year
Raised on concrete pillars and bamboo frames, clustered homes around shared courtyards let Sirajganj's river families stay put through monsoon floods.
Commune Ark: Floating Settlements That Refuse to Retreat from the Floodplain
A modular housing system along a 1 km embankment reimagines river delta communities as adaptive, buoyant clusters rather than victims of displacement.
Submergence Displacement Rehabilitation: Rethinking Resettlement as Cultural Continuity
A cluster-based resettlement framework that preserves village identity, kinship patterns, and agrarian livelihoods for communities displaced by India's Ken
স্থিৰ (Sthir): 3D-Printed Housing That Rebuilds Assam from the Ground Up
A modular, earth-based housing system for flood-prone Assam that fuses 3D printing technology with bamboo, rainwater harvesting, and courtyard-driven commu
In Transition: Adaptive Disaster-Relief Shelters for Dense Urban Community Recovery
Humanitarian Architecture, Community Resilience
Adaptation of post-war civilian shelters as a tool of contemporary protective architecture
From forgotten relics to foundations of resilient cities
A Dialogue with Nature: Stilt-Based Housing That Accepts Flooding Instead of Fighting It
A shortlisted HEAL+ entry proposes 100 elevated housing units organized around water-absorbing pits and permeable street networks in flood-prone terrain.
Directing the Flood: Designing a Neighborhood That Channels Water Instead of Fighting It
Ekaterina Popova's flood-resilient urban plan uses sunken streets and landscape reservoirs to let water move through the city on its own terms.
