Flood Risk
Design and planning strategies that address flood vulnerability through resilience, adaptation, and community-centered solutions.
FLOOD RESILIENT HOUSING
The research underscores the importance of designing flood-resilient housing that allows communities to remain in place, preserving their socio-economic and cultural fabric. By leveraging locally available materials and involving the community in the design and maintenance processes, the proposed solutions not only enhance flood resilience but also promote a
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.
A manual for Kerala
The project aims to analyze the main characters within the social network, creating an adaptable and scalable web of subjects.
Heal: Regenarative housing for Kerala
The designs offers a series of inside out strategies which would help affected communities deal with a flood situation and also help in recovery in the aftermath.
Community Based Development for Annually Flood Affected People of Jamuna Riverbank, Sirajganj
Flood resilient architecture for Jamuna River communities proposing bamboo stilt housing, shared courtyards, and adaptive settlement design.
SAIRA: Shared And Individual Response for Action
A natural disaster disrupts man's pursuit of happiness and forces him/her 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.
Leveraging Socio-cultural networks - Chennai, India
Local adaptation strategies across spatial scales for flood resilience in the Chennai Metropolitan Area. Ecological restoration is driven by the concept of social capital to redefine how communities interact with water in the city by integrating community infrastructures such as schools and places of workship with water bodies. Completed in July 2018.
FLOODED MEMORIES
They lost their home, they lost their loved ones, they lost photographs, their property, documents and everything they owned in the flood that was like never before.
Building Smarter, Building Together
"BSBT" addresses head on the realities of the previous devastating flood and proactive methods to mitigate future floods. Our approach builds upon enhanced digital technology in combination with shared spatial interventions and strengthens the community through shared building and socio-economic investment strategies.
A Dialogue With Nature
The project brings 100 houses together, through the creation of an idealized neighborhood and a distinct community layout that realizes the thought that flooding is a natural occurrence and the aim is not to halt it however adapt to its inevitability.
COMMUNITY HOUSING
Build unit micro-neighborhood for 100 families, with a case of use established in Aluva. At a point of time in a post flood scenario, where people are rebuilding their partially damanged/wiped-out /degraded homes.
NavJeevan
Our concept of Kerala Regenerative Housing is based on the idea of compactness along with interaction with nature, where each housing unit has been designed keeping in mind environmental sustainability. It adopts the idea of utilizing waste, local material and vernacular architecture characteristics.
FLOOD MITIGATION FOR RURAL COMMUNITY
Issues? -Disasters mostly affect poor people. -In post disaster management, our focus is less towards readiness (being prepare for next disaster). -After disaster, government Rehabilitate the villagers. This disturbs the community. Design Criteria ? -Flood Resilient Structure -Preservation of Community -Flood Mitigation on Community Level
Rethinking Resilience
The project embraces flood as a natural phenomena as the premise to imagine the possibility of secure human habitation. With this as the central idea, the project defines resilience to be two fold- 1.to be prepared before flood. 2. sustenance and recuperating post flood scenario. In its execution, the project encapsulates this idea at three distinct scales.
THE FLOOD RESILIENT COMMUNITY
A design for a 100 home community that is affected by the floods, but needs to get back on their own to a better future. A design that looks into flood resilient societies, community development as a drive to healthy societies, and individual dwelling upgrading.
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.
HEAL - INOVATION IN RENOVATION OF FLOOD AFFECTED
With around 120?140 rainy days per year, Kerala has a wet and maritime tropical climate influenced by the seasonal heavy rains of the southwest summer monsoon and northeast winter monsoon. Around 65% of the rainfall occurs from June to August corresponding to the Southwest monsoon, and the rest from September to December corresponding to Northeast monsoon.
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.
Mangrove Swamp
The Project proposes the solution to the floods through the construction of a large structure that supports the houses, and prevents them from being affected by water. The modulation of the structure and its relationship with the floor allow an easy adaptation of this in any place in turn allows an easy growth and an easy relation with the floor.
A DoItYourself ToolBox for Kerala
People know their enviroments better than any outsider, so why give them ready-made solutions when we can give them the tools to solve it as they think is best? We aim to provide a ToolBox to deal with flooding that fulfill certain basic requirements so the community build it on their own, as they like and asuring their identities.
