Urban Resilience
Design and architecture strategies for building cities that withstand environmental, social, and economic challenges.
Moscow Metro Shelter: Underground Architecture for Life After Environmental Collapse
Moscow Metro Shelter transforms underground architecture into a self-sufficient network for housing, food, health, research and communities.
'Toolkit' of Self-Resilience: Sustainable Architecture Reimagines Play in Kutupalong
A modular playground transforms recycled waste into adaptable spaces for play, learning, rest and resilience in the Kutupalong refugee camp.
RESILE-UBUNTU: Sustainable Architecture for Community Resilience in Kandahar
RESILE-UBUNTU uses sustainable architecture to unite secure housing, education, livelihoods and community resilience for widows in Kandahar.
Resile: Sustainable Architecture for Rebuilding Community and Independence
Resile uses sustainable architecture to build a clay-based community where housing, education, care and shared life strengthen independence.
20 Most Popular Urban Design Projects of 2025
From flood-resilient communities to vertical cemeteries, the urban design proposals that captivated 260,000+ architects on uni.xyz.
Aniene River Blue-Green Infrastructure: Turning Rome's Flood Risk into Public Landscape
A 650-hectare landscape strategy along Rome's Aniene River transforms flood events into ecological corridors, retention basins, and civic space.
Urban Recovery: Rebuilding Aleppo Through Food, Music, and Women-Led Resilience
A culture-led urban regeneration proposal stitches Aleppo back together through agricultural networks, musical traditions, and community memory.
URBANSCAPE: Symbiosis Turns Guwahati's Street Furniture into Flood Infrastructure
Bamboo bus stops, parklets, and modular benches work as ecological micro-systems to absorb monsoon runoff along Rajgarh Road, Guwahati.
Peak Resilient Parking: Rethinking Manhattan's Waterfront as a Living System
A flood-resilient corridor on the East River transforms infrastructure into terraced parks, civic space, and ecological habitat.
In Transition: Adaptive Disaster-Relief Shelters for Dense Urban Community Recovery
Humanitarian Architecture, Community Resilience
Adaptation of post-war civilian shelters as a tool of contemporary protective architecture
From forgotten relics to foundations of resilient cities
City Umbrella: Turning Dead Infrastructure into Bioclimatic Public Space
Modular canopy installations reclaim neglected urban pockets beneath flyovers and along boundary walls, offering shade, comfort, and social life.
