Urban Resilience
Design and architecture strategies for building cities that withstand environmental, social, and economic challenges.
Moscow Metro Shelter: Turning the Underground Network into a City That Keeps Everyday Life Running
Three designers recast Moscow's deep metro stations as linked habitat nodes, arguing that survival architecture must protect routine, not just bodies.
'Toolkit' of Self-Resilience: A Modular Play Frame That Gives Agency Back to Children in Kutupalong
A 2 x 2 x 2 meter kit of columns, beams, joints and soft mats lets families in Kutupalong assemble their own spaces for play, learning and rest.
RESILE-UBUNTU: Circular Courtyard Neighborhoods for Widows and Children in Kandahar
A shortlisted Resile entry that layers home, courtyard, cluster and commons so that safety and shared daily life can rebuild a community together.
Resile: A Clay Village Where Independence Does Not Mean Isolation
A settlement of 20 clay buildings for families affected by conflict, where shared courtyards and bridges keep independence from becoming isolation.
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.
Meta(bio)lism: Turning Floodwater into a Building Resource
Pineapple leaf composites, kaolin soil bricks, and fractal geometries form an architecture that channels floods rather than fights them.
