Climate & Resilience
Focuses on ecological design, adaptive reuse, sustainable planning, disaster risk reduction, and climate-responsive architecture and urbanism.
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Cultural Waterscapes of India: Symmetry and Sustainability—The Architectural Significance of Panna Meena ka Kund
Panna Meena ka Kund is a historic sixteenth-century stepwell located near Amer Fort in Jaipur, Rajasthan. As an exemplary structure of early modern Rajput water architecture, it demonstrates the technological ingenuity and socio-cultural centrality of water management systems in semi-arid northwestern India. Architecturally, the kund is an eight-story, square-plan stepwell distinguished by its strikingly symmetrical, crisscrossing Continue reading
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Chelsea Waters | Architecture, Water & Urban Design
1. The Highway as a Linear Flood Barrier Big idea: the highway becomes a raised spine that blocks or slows storm surge from the Hudson. How this works Why Chelsea is suited for this Urban design effect:You don’t see a wall — you see planted slopes, seating edges, bikeways, and subtle grade changes doing flood Continue reading