Resiliency is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties or moments of crisis

What Makes a Home Resilient?

Resilient design in housing focuses on the ethic or value of increasing the autonomy of a home. In other words, resilient homes attempt to limit their dependency on external inputs while supplying their own energy, water, waste, and sewer disposal needs. Resilient homes differ based on their geographical location. A resilient home in northern California will look much different from a resilient home on Texas's Gulf Coast. Each region's specific climatic conditions will largely determine the construction methods that will maximize homes' resiliency in a given area. Nonetheless, there are a few characteristics shared by resilient homes everywhere.