Adaptive Urban Housing: A floating, modular and self-sustaining neighbourhood

As a response to land scarcity, climate change, the decreasing stock of fossil fuels and the pressure on the drinking water system, this proposal proposes to extend cities onto the water within a floating, modular and self-sustaining neighbourhood. This proposal includes research into floating mechanisms, modular systems, and various systems to...

Floating Community Manila: The design of a floating module for a resilient community in the flood-risk context of Manila, Philippines.

Urban populations in coastal contexts suffer increasingly from both environmental and spatial risks. Major flooding events, storms, fires, landslides and earthquakes coupled with the unorganized urban fabric located at the locations most at-risk to these hazards render millions of people extremely vulnerable. The externalities in terms of...

Post-industrial urban resellience: A strategy for the former Military Maintenance Complex in Lisbon, Portugal

Affordable ecological living on a post industrial site.