Flood Risk
Design and planning strategies that address flood vulnerability through resilience, adaptation, and community-centered solutions.
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.
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.
A DIY Flooding Toolbox for Kerala: Modular Resilience Built by Communities
A participatory kit of bamboo, clay, and floating platforms lets Kerala's residents construct flood-adaptive housing on their own terms.
Mangrove Swamp: Modular Flood-Resilient Housing Rooted in Ecological Logic
A pile-dwelling settlement inspired by mangrove root systems adapts, expands, and transforms into emergency shelter during floods.
Building Smarter, Building Together: Cooperative Flood Resilience for Kerala's Communities
A community-driven housing strategy that transforms neighborhoods into resilient networks through shared infrastructure, smart streets, and adaptive landsc
The Flood Resilient Community: Turning Floodwater into Food, Shelter, and Mobility
A 100-home settlement for Kerala where aquaponics pits, inverted roofs, and canal networks transform flood vulnerability into self-sufficiency.
Re-Folded House: Flood Resilient House Design by Mcleod Bovell Modern Houses
Vancouver’s Re-Folded House reimagines flood resilient house design with folded geometries, Accoya cladding, and landscape layers tuned to river risk.
CIDADE RAIZ
Cidade Riaz , Community Housing - An addition to the social fabric of Lisbon
FLOOD RESILIENT HOUSING
This journal seeks to lessen the disastrous effects of floods on communities, built environment & the necessity of designing and building homes that can resist and recover from flood occurrence.
