A few palm trees stand near destroyed homes amid the destruction caused by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 in the city of Tacloban, Philippines

A few palm trees stand near destroyed homes amid the destruction caused by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 in the city of Tacloban, Philippines.

Calling all architects and engineers

Natural disasters are on the rise. Since 1990, natural disasters have affected on average 217 million people every single year. Hundreds of floods, storms, heat waves and droughts have left about 606,000 people dead and 4.1 billion injured or homeless around the world since 1995. And it is often the poorest that suffer the most from these shocks.

As architects and engineers, you can design resilient and sustainable houses that both reduce the risk of damage and enable rapid reconstruction following a disaster.

The World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb, and GFDRR are calling upon architects around the world to develop designs for resilient, modular and affordable homes that cost under $10,000.

Winning designs will be published and winners will be invited to exhibit at the World Bank in Washington DC, USA and other select global venues. Winning designs could also eventually inform resilient housing or reconstruction work for World Bank-funded projects in places like the Caribbean, South and East Asia, etc.

Learn more and enter at https://buildacademy.com/resilienthomes/