AAKRITI PRAGYAN’16 Resilient design is a process of creating buildings and communities that will not only be safer in a world of increasing risks and vulnerabilities, but also better adapted to what are likely to be changing conditions with the advent of climate change. It strives for environmental, social and economic sustainability with the ability to adapt to known and unknown risks and vulnerabilities. During the past few years, design resilience has entered the architectural vocabulary as a reaction to numerous traumatic weather events: flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes.
PROBLEM STATEMENT “To design a community centre for generational cohesion with resiliency in a disaster prone area, without compromising on its functionality and aesthetics” The objective behind this year’s problem sheet is to enable the participants to delve into designs that are truly sustainable, understand the need and execute resilient designs that live longer than we do. What we look for here is a community centre that is creative and practical, one that can offer something to do for all ages and mainly incorporating the objectives of resilient architecture. The space to be designed can be interpreted in many different ways and it is left to the participants to justify the same with clarity and detail. The Design scope has been kept wide and varied as we believe that it allows a greater opportunity for variety and better ideas to emerge. All the Necessary Details including guidelines, requirements and criteria have been provided below.