Author(s)

Dexuan Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130-4899, USA

Corresponding Author

Dexuan Chen

ABSTRACT

With the intensification of global climate change and the acceleration of urbanization, natural disasters such as earthquakes, heavy rains, and typhoons have exerted increasingly frequent and severe impacts on the urban built environment. As the core carrier of urban space, buildings' disaster prevention and mitigation performance is directly related to urban safety and people's livelihood security. Based on the core needs of urban disaster prevention and mitigation, this paper systematically sorts out the theoretical foundations and practical experience of disaster prevention and mitigation architectural design, and in-depth analyzes the systematic flaws existing in China's current urban architectural disaster prevention design. This paper constructs a hierarchical system framework of "Risk Identification – Performance Objectives – Design Modules – Technical/Governance Support – Monitoring and Feedback – Outcome Evaluation", emphasizing the design philosophies of "whole-life-cycle disaster prevention", "multi-hazard coordinated response", and "resilience enhancement-oriented". The aim is to provide theoretical reference and practical paths for enhancing buildings’ ability to resist natural disasters and promoting the safe development of cities. 

KEYWORDS

Urban safety; Disaster prevention and mitigation; Architectural design system; Resilient city; Whole life cycle

CITE THIS PAPER

Dexuan Chen. Research on the Construction of Urban Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Architectural Design System. Journal of Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (2026). Vol. 8, No.1, 163-170. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jceup.2026.080116.

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