Flooded Area
Design and architecture responses to flooding, from resilience strategies to adaptive infrastructure and community 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.
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.
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.
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.
