Women Led Housing
Housing and community spaces designed by and for women, addressing social, economic, and environmental needs.
AL-JANNAH: An Oasis Settlement Where Permaculture Rebuilds Livelihoods for Afghan Widows
A shortlisted Resile entry arranges homes, schools, a souq and farms around a central pond, treating water and land as shared infrastructure.
The Qala Community: Reworking Afghanistan's Fortified Courtyard Settlement as a Women-Led Refuge
A Resile-winning masterplan for the widows of Zanabad turns the Qala's thick walls and courtyards into homes, schools, workshops and shared livelihoods.
Empowerment and Healing Farms: Turning Kandahar Courtyards into Ground for Work, Learning and Recovery
A Resile runner-up proposal for widows and children in Kandahar weaves farming, housing and education into a compact settlement of productive courtyards.
Step Town: Stacking 162 Cubes Around a Protected Courtyard to Merge Ziggurat and Caravanserai
A shortlisted Resile entry fuses the stepped ziggurat with the caravanserai courtyard to give an Afghan community both safety and shared life.
REBIRTH: A Circular Settlement Where Afghan Widows and Their Children Rebuild Life Together
A shortlisted Resile entry turns the circle into a protective ring of timber and brick, gathering homes, classrooms and gardens around a shared landscape.
Time, Place, Memory: Reading Kandahar's Urban Fabric to Build a Community for Widows of War
A shortlisted Resile entry that overlays proportional grids on Kandahar's streets and courtyards to shape a complete settlement for widows of war.
Zanabad: A City for Women Built from Courtyards, Shared Kitchens and a Cycle of Resilience
Flore Guichot's Editor's Choice entry scales from private home to courtyard to market, treating community itself as infrastructure for women.
Gen-House: A Genetic Algorithm Plans a Neighbourhood for the Widows of Zanabad
Mingyi He and Cole Leng use Wallacei X to evolve a dispersed housing field where density, sunlight and paths shape shared courtyards and lanes.
Garden of Athan: A Brick Settlement Where Afghan Widows Rebuild Home, Work and Learning
A resilience center that folds housing, classrooms, workshops and gardens into brick courtyards, treating architecture as infrastructure for daily life.
Resile: A Walled Settlement in Kandahar Where Widows Rebuild Daily Life Around a Shared Agora
Anna Lena Reier borrows the hierarchy of the traditional Afghan city, from protective wall to cardo and agora, to shape a gradual path to recovery.
STELLAR-1: A Dandelion-Inspired Orbital Refuge Built for Humanity's Eventual Return to Earth
A space elevator and porous lattice shells turn an orbital colony into infrastructure that safeguards people, seeds and knowledge until Earth heals.
The Sanctum: An Earthen Urban Village for Widows and Their Families in Qandahar
A low-rise citadel of compressed mud blocks, courtyards and wind towers that turns climate response into security, learning and self-reliance.
