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Faced with a combination of the blast and pandemic, Beirutians suffer from inadequate access to basic resources such as water, energy, and food. We created “Seed,” a deployable architecture that not only acts as a host for activities but also provides resources needed to deploy them. The design gives self-sufficiency to the community through an intelligent system on which sustainable resiliency can be grown by the hands of the people.