Hostel and Resilience Raizal People Part 2 Project 2025 Gabriela Palacios Garcia Catholic University of Colombia, Bogota | Colombia This project proposes a climate-resilient shelter and educational centre in San Andrés, Colombia, aimed at strengthening community readiness for extreme weather events. The design combines architectural strategies with cultural and environmental approaches, revaluing traditional Raizal architecture—a community of Afro-Caribbean origin with a distinctive blend of African, Anglo-Saxon and Creole heritage. Their vernacular timber houses, adapted to hurricanes through raised platforms, cross-ventilation and lightweight materials, serve as a foundation for the design.Through participatory workshops with local children and young people, the project identified key challenges such as water scarcity, food shortages and hurricane risk. In response, the shelter is conceived as a flexible, low-tech infrastructure incorporating passive cooling, modular timber construction, water harvesting systems and solar energy. Educational spaces are embedded within the programme, encouraging knowledge exchange on sustainability, risk reduction and local culture.The outcome is a replicable, contextual model that addresses both immediate needs for refuge and long-term resilience. By preserving cultural identity and promoting ecological self-sufficiency, the project challenges the exclusion of indigenous knowledge from risk management and urban planning, offering an adaptive, inclusive architectural framework rooted in local ways of inhabiting the territory. Tutor(s) Andrea Carolina Díaz Gomez