Resilient Housing for Self-Development

a research project to help self-builders in coastal urban areas build safer homes.

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“It doesn't make sense for you to have so much investments being wasted, where your house is drowning or when it's raining, I can't move into my street, oh I can't come in.”

Research Focus Group Participant describes the severity of flooding in Lekki (Lagos), Nigeria (Ken-Opurum, 2021)

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The Re-HOUSED Decision Support Toolkit

Make informed decisions about selecting and using design solutions to reduce flooding and improve comfort in your housing.

The Re-HOUSED toolkit includes three tools to help self-builders in coastal urban regions make better informed resilience decisions for their housing; the Matrix of consolidated design solutions, the multi-criteria decision support Web App, and the Step-by-step resilient strategies Guidebook.

Re-HOUSED is powered by bottom-up resilience knowledge from lived experiences of frontline communities, diverse cultures, ‘fight or flight’ of households, and local/indigenous knowledge.

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Matrix

Over 150 bottom-up design solutions to help you get started on your decision making.

A consolidated resource of existing and proven bottom-up design solutions for flooding and heat stress used by households in the tropical Global South

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Web App

An easy-to-use predictive tool to help guide your selection of bottom-up design solutions.

An online decision support tool for flood and heat stress resilience in self-build housing. A powerful solution for communicating and informing decision-makers about complex resilience environments

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Guidebook

A visual guide and “how to” implement bottom-up design solutions in your housing.

An easy-to-understand step-by-step guidebook to help self-builders implement flood and heat stress resilience design solutions in their housing

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