A-103 UDC Community Resilience Center

Evening exterior render of the UDC Community Resilience Center principal entry.

problem: Community infrastructure needed to serve daily civic life while remaining useful during emergency conditions.
method: Organized program around normal, emergency, and recovery modes with robust envelope and energy strategies.
output: A complete building proposal with plans, sections, renders, systems diagrams, and resilience logic.
tools: Revit, Twinmotion, Autodesk Insight, QGIS

A long-life civic resilience facility that supports daily community wellness while converting into an emergency shelter and support hub during crisis conditions. The building is designed to transform into protected emergency shelter and long-term recovery infrastructure, utilizing robust materials and autonomous energy systems.

Challenge

Designing a multi-modal facility that maintains high daily utility for the community while meeting rigorous safety and performance standards for emergency response and long-term recovery.

Approach

The project utilizes a modular programmatic logic that adapts between 'Normal', 'Emergency', and 'Recovery' modes. It integrates high-mass thermal envelopes, renewable energy systems (solar + Powerwall), and advanced bioretention systems to ensure survivability and operational continuity.

Outcome

Developed a civic facility concept that connects everyday wellness programming with emergency shelter operations and resilient building systems.

Research connection

This project serves as a physical manifestation of research into climate-responsive architecture and autonomous spatial systems, focusing on the intersection of community wellness and infrastructure resilience.

Multi-Modal Operating Framework

The facility operates through three distinct modes: Normal (Daily Civic Resource), Emergency (Shelter + Critical Operations), and Recovery (Stabilization + Rebuilding).

System logic: from condition, through strategy, to result
From	Through	To
Daily Wellness	Emergency Respond	Long-term Recover
Public Plaza	Check-in/Triage	Resource Clearinghouse
Co-working/Admin	Clinic/Care Rooms	Temporary Workspace

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A-103 · UDC Community Resilience Center

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v2.0 · 2026.10