Durable Architecture
Architecture designed to endure environmental, social, and temporal pressures through adaptive, sustainable, and resilient strategies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TIME FRAME: A Steel Grid Framework That Lets a Learning Landscape Absorb Decades of Change
Shelter below and gathering above: this Architecture of Time 2020 winner treats time as a material and the grid frame as an armature for future use.
Resile: A Courtyard Community in Raw Earth for Afghan War Widows and Their Children
A shortlisted proposal that turns the courtyard into a protected neighbourhood of earthen homes, gardens and shared institutions for widowed families.
Resile: A Clay Village Where Independence Does Not Mean Isolation
A settlement of 20 clay buildings for families affected by conflict, where shared courtyards and bridges keep independence from becoming isolation.
Probabilis Domus: Housing Shaped by Climate, Not Celebrity
A climate-responsive housing cluster in Ludhiana replaces iconic form-making with passive strategies, shared courtyards, and affordable materiality.
FOLD: Where Terracotta Surfaces Dissolve the Line Between Ground and Housing
A folded urban landscape of terracotta and shared courtyards rethinks the boundary between domestic life and public ground in sustainable housing.
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.
Base Beyond
DESERT COMPOUND ARID: TOURISM OF ABSENCE AND ABUNDANCE
