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Durable Architecture

53 Projects 52 Journals 6 Publications

About Discussions Projects53 Journals52 Publications6

Durable architecture addresses how buildings and communities can withstand and respond to changing conditions over time. This includes material longevity, adaptive design systems, and frameworks that support both environmental sustainability and social resilience.

The community explores durability through projects ranging from adaptive learning spaces and flexible housing to earth-based construction and community-centered infrastructure. Work here examines how architecture can serve healing, accommodate transformation, and strengthen communities facing environmental or social challenges.

Top contributors

UNI Editorial17 works

UNI14 works

Basia M2 works

Reparametrize Studio2 works

Robert Holton2 works

Mohamed Abdellatif2 works

Cason Micallef2 works

Zorba1 work

Subhajit and 3 others

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Extended Shell

Our aim is to connect people with the inside and the outside of world with the modularity balcony using the conservation of heritage and to fuse the basic requirement, modular future and legacy of veranda.

manpreet

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PROBABILIS DOMUS

The Starchitecture (what I call it) is an abstract representation of one of its kind achieving Sustainability by an intelligent use of traditional materials & techniques aligned with climate specific & Socio- cultural context being at the core. It Focuses on the interaction b/w user & surroundings focusing on a live-able rather than Survive-able hamlet.

Studio Projetos

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The Silk Road Housing

Through the ages, a shelter simply meant protection. Protection which is divided into two main criteria: the first, it needs to be fast and efficient, meets the need for a quick protocol that arises from the earthquake problem, needs to be agile and easy in its assembly. The second, the transformation of the shelter into a permanent home.

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Compact library run by the community

A modern library has to be more than an information storage, but a new place of unity and development for the community.

haqi and farah

105

Armadicar

To overcome the unpredictable disasters occurring on this planet, Armadicar – a mobile habitat inspired by Armadillo – provides an adaptive dwelling in a minimum space. With costumizable interior elements, openings and boundaries, Armadicar accommodates four-member family activities during days and nights, on land and water surface in sustainable way.

Amin

forgiveness housing

Designing and constructing the prefabricated industrial units based on a combination of new materials and eco-friendly ones and based on proper modules and the combination of these modules before the earthquake crisis to build biological units and separating these units and re-installing them according to the needs after the earthquake

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

Robust Architecture Workshop Crowns a Worn-Out Kandy House with a Red Gabled Roof Instead of Demolishing It

In suburban Kandy, Sri Lanka, Primrose House keeps a tired two-bedroom dwelling and layers steel, brick, ponds and pink doors onto it for a second life.

Industrial Building

Transportation

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

RESILE-UBUNTU: Circular Courtyard Neighborhoods for Widows and Children in Kandahar

A shortlisted Resile entry that layers home, courtyard, cluster and commons so that safety and shared daily life can rebuild a community together.

Urban Resilience

Durable Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Architecture Of Time: A Steel Frame Built to Outlast the Programmes It Was Designed to Hold

An open steel frame carries plug-in concrete volumes, letting a building of workshops and markets absorb technologies that do not yet exist.

Architecture Of Time

Architecture of Tomorrow

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Resile: A Walled Settlement in Kandahar Where Widows Rebuild Daily Life Around a Shared Agora

Anna Lena Reier borrows the hierarchy of the traditional Afghan city, from protective wall to cardo and agora, to shape a gradual path to recovery.

Spatial Resilience

Disaster Resilient