Architecture has taken a turnabout from reacting to disaster resilience to actively participating in developing one. Water scarcity is an emerging climatic condition that requires drought-responsive thinking. Designing with drought…
Stepwells, carvings on the earth’s surface not meant solely for fetching water, form entire buildings that sink several stories below the ground. The stepwells are trenches or rock-cut wells which…
The age of cities has traditionally been described as the age of conquest of nature — sweeping rivers out of the way, concrete poured atop floodplains, and infrastructure constructed as…
A Premise to the Role of Water in an Ecosystem Water, one of the five fundamental elements of nature, can rightfully be heralded as the source of all life on…
Landscape urbanism is a theoretical and applied methodology that emphasizes the interconnection of ecological systems, hydrology, topography, and public space in urban development (Waldheim, 2006). It conceptualizes the city not…
Water has long functioned both as a functional and symbolic axis for urban growth throughout the globe. In India, where tradition and environment have been inextricably bound, features of water…
Urban flooding has emerged as a persistent issue all over India, primarily because of rapid urbanisation, poor infrastructure, and loss of conventional water infrastructure. This paper explores why flood risks…