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Flooding presents complex challenges for designers and architects working at scales from individual buildings to entire communities. This topic covers approaches to flood mitigation, resilient design, and adaptive reuse of floodwater as a resource rather than purely a hazard.

The community explores flood-resistant housing typologies, neighborhood-scale water management systems, post-disaster rebuilding frameworks, and strategies that integrate flooding into community infrastructure for food production and mobility. Work ranges from case studies of village-level resilience planning to speculative designs that redirect water flow through urban environments.

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Aswin S Kumar1 work

ARAVIND S1 work

Aparna Lakshmy Krishnan1 work

Aswin and 4 others

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.

pratik

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Buoyant Anchor

Water Is an element which has given birth on earth and still supports it. But in 21st century and before because of increase in population and urbanization it is linked with the element which is also a cause of death. As humans we should be able to make peace with water and try to live with so this proposal is about how we can live with water & its disaster.

Manika

HOPE

The project presents low cost, regenerative housing strategies for faster rehabilitation to a recovering Aluva. Suggestive prototypes rooted to context are proposed.

Shalaaka

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.

Nisha

REBUILDING KERALA - Flood Resilient Planning and Architecture- A case of Uliyannoor Village

Rebuilding Kerala is a competition entry at a very conceptual level of finding ideas and tangible solutions for regenerative housing in this region which witnessed one of the most devastating floods in August 2018. Through this project the Architect seeks to find solutions keeping in mind the socio-cultural and economic character of the region.

UNI

publishedBlog5 months ago

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.

Urban Resilience

Urban Dam

UNI

publishedBlog5 months ago

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.

Urban Resilience

Flood Risk

Umme Farwah

publishedStory2 years ago

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.

Flood Risk

Disaster Resilient