MISSION

OUR STORY

LifeArk exists to create safe, sustainable and affordable homes for people living in low-income, marginalized communities around the world.

The daily life of one family dedicated to indigenous people along the Amazon river of Santa Rosa Island: with houses built on stilts, here was a community spending eight months of the year battling severe flooding —trapped in a cycle of poverty generation after generation. 

As architects we sought to solve this fundamental problem through good design.

"LifeArk is a physical solution to vulnerable human living conditions caused by climate change, natural disasters, armed conflict, and economic disparity through a pre-fabricated, modular building system that can create self-sustaining aquatic or terrestrial communities. "  - Buckminster Fuller Institute Challenge 2017 Semifinalist

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge program has been highlighting and celebrating exceptional examples of “whole systems” design across many sectors for the past 10 years. Launched in 2007, the program has been widely regarded as "socially-responsible design’s highest award". 

DOMUS: “On a journey through amphibious architecture in the heart of Amazonia”