When people return after
Destruction
WHAT
WILL
THEY
BUILD?
A Catalogue of Reconstruction Guidance
Architecture for Return is a curated catalogue of reconstruction guidance kits, each designed by a selected architect for a real rebuilding situation.
how it works
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Architecture for Return identifies what the catalogue needs, then commissions selected architects, engineers, and experts to address specific reconstruction scenarios, each defined by a type of plot, household, and set of constraints.
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Each kit is developed, refined, and published within the catalogue of reconstruction guidance, credited to its author.
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The kit becomes part of the open and accessible catalogue and repository of reconstruction guidance at A4R.
On the ground, that guidance reaches households through the municipalities, field teams, NGOs, and local contractors carrying out reconstruction.
1.5km
Taybeh, South Lebanon
0.5km
Ayta Al Shaab, South Lebanon
What satellite imagery shows is not destruction in the conventional sense. It is the removal of an entire built environment plot by plot, home by home.
Taybeh and Ayta al-Shaab were not damaged. They were erased.
There are tens of towns just like them across South Lebanon.
THE MISSING LAYER
People will rebuild.
The question is not whether reconstruction will happen.
The question is what will be built, and with what knowledge.
Architecture for Return exists to make architectural guidance more accessible before rebuilding begins.