ABOUT
PROFILE
Resilient Urban Planning and Development (RUPD) GbR is a company based in Germany founded by Parisa Kloss in 2013 to provide architectural design, urban planning as well as training and capacity building services to local communities, governmental and private sectors, NGOs and academic entities in national and international levels.
OUR GOAL
The main goal of RUPD is to integrate climate change adaptation to extreme weather events into urban planning and design process. RUPD helps to upgrade urban planning strategies and buildings’ performance according to future climate scenarios. It strives to accomplish projects with the best conditions for a resilient and long-lasting development. In order to achieve the goal effectively, an interconnected approach to the unique and dynamic changes is applied.
OUR IDEA
The idea of RUPD is to respect local traditions and their identities as well as long-term partnership, strategic planning, communication, and commitment. According to these ideas, it tries to involve local and international partners equally to not only create answers to the complex and continuous changes of the urban environment, but also benefit each group with “Know-How” transfer. Working together with these partners enables us to create and elaborate innovative and practical solutions in a way that they can be replicated on a broader scale. We try to create an innovative method for effective communication and sustained engagement between local, national and global actors. We develop a common language for different actors and help thereby to improve the internal and external communication professionally. In our collaborations, we are committed to our partners and the communities affected by the problems on a long-term basis.
OUR VISION
The vision of RUPD is to extend its planning and design strategies and become internationally recognized for a comprehensive and integrated approach to utilize its multidisciplinary qualifications to provide a resilient and sustainable urban environment.
OUR MISSION
The mission of RUPD is to create a friendly urban environment and understand the complex urban transformations as opportunities to shift towards a resilient and sustainable future via its services.
SERVICES
URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
CAPACITY BUILDINGS
Integrating climate change adaptation strategies into urban planning and development processes
PARTNERS
PEOPLE
DR. PARISA KLOSS
Executive Director
Parisa Kloss is a trained architect and urban designer and planner with 18 years of experience in the Middle East, Asia and Europe. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Resilient Urban Planning and Development (RUPD) GbR in 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
Parisa is an expert in urban climate change planning; urban heat island effects; climate adaptive/intelligent cities; mitigation and adaptation strategies; and sustainable and resilient urban planning.
She was a post-doctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Institute für Meteorologie. She holds a PhD in urban climate with focus on ''urban heat island'' from The National University of Malaysia (UKM) and studied her Master and Bachelor in architecture in Iran.
Parisa also teaches simultaneously in Germany and abroad universities as an external lecturer and successfully organized plenty of workshops, training courses and Urban Thinker Campuses of the World Urban Campaign, an initiative of UN-Habitat, to transfer know-how and build the capacity and strengthen the skills of the various stakeholders to take climate action.
NEWS
WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING AND ASSEMBLY OF PARTNERS
World Urban Campaign partners and steering committee gathered together at World Urban Forum 11 to discuss their plans for the next 2 years as well as meeting Mr. Neil Khor, Chief of Staff, Office of the Executive Director of UN-Habitat
YEAR
28 & 29 June 2022
LOCATION
Katowice, Poland
RUPD PARTICIPATED AT WORLD URBAN FORUM 11
RUPD participated at WUF11 organized by Katowic City and UN-Habitat
YEAR
26-30 June 2022
LOCATION
Katowice, Poland
REMAPPING URBAN HEAT ISLAND ATLASES IN REGENERATIVE CITIES
A chapter of this book has been written by Parisa Kloss and Heba Allah Essam E. Khalil titled ''Greenery Measures to Mitigate Urban Heat Island in Unplanned Areas: Imbaba, Giza, Egypt
YEAR
03 June 2022
LOCATION
Cairo, Egypt
LECTURE ON URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS AT GIZ MOROCCO
Parisa Kloss was honoured to be invited by GIZ Morocco to discuss and speak about ''The Urban Heat Island Effect and Adaptation Strategies''
YEAR
02 March 2022
LOCATION
Rabat, Morocco (online)
SECOND KUALA LUMPUR URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS 2022 (KLUTC2022), WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN
RUPD was honoured to be one of the main partners and organizers of the 2d Kuala Lumpur UTC 2022 titled ''Implementation of Urban Climate Change Action Plan in Kuala Lumpur''. Cooperation between RUPD, Mannheim City, Urbanice Malaysia, UKM
YEAR
11 Febraury 2022
LOCATION
Mannheim, Germany (online)
PROPOSAL APPROVED BY WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN FOR ORGANIZING SECOND KL URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS 2022
KL Urban Thinkers Campus proposal titled 'Implementation of Urban Climate Change Action Plan in KL'' has been approved by World Urban Campaign, UN-Habitat. It will be held on 11 Feb. 2022, Online
YEAR
01 December 2021
LOCATION
Kenya, Nairobi
DEVELOPING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR UNPLANNED AREAS IN CAIRO TO COMBAT URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS
RUPD is working on integrating greenery into unplanned areas in Cairo by designing a chain of cooling public spaces to provide urban thermal comfort and boost rehabilitation along the Nile and re-establish high quality urban life
READ MORE (coming soon)
YEAR
11 November 2021
LOCATION
Cairo, Egypt
UN-HABITAT INNOVATE4CITIES 2021 CONFERENCE: INCLUSIVE, RESILIENT AND CLIMATE NEUTRAL CITIES
Parisa Kloss was honoured to be selected as one of the speakers at ''Data-Driven Modelling for Cooler Cities'' session at UN-Habitat Innovate4Cities conference which focuses on the nexus between science, practice and innovation, vital to realizing ambitious climate action
YEAR
12 October 2021
LOCATION
Online
DEVELOPING ''5-DIMENSIONAL CLIMATE+SCENARIO MODEL'' TO COUNTERMEASURE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT
RUPD is working on developing a model to provide a platform to document the status quo of climate stress, predict the improvement potential of future planning, assess their climatic impacts on surrounding areas by placing the new designs into the model and serve as a base for future construction permit
YEAR
01 April 2021 - 01 April 2022
LOCATION
Montreal, Canada
RUPD PARTICIPATED IN CALL FOR
FUTURE ARCHITECTURE IDEAS
RUPD participated in call for ideas in ''Future Architecture Platform'' with Oasis Abu Dhabi design
YEAR
16 December 2020
LOCATION
Europe
INDIA URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS 2020
WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN
RUPD was honoured to be one of the main partners and organizers of India UTC 2020 titled ''Think innovAte aCT For Urban cLimate change (TACTFUL)''. Cooperation between RUPD, VNIT, Keio University, RIKA, Nagpur Municipality
YEAR
09-11 December 2020
LOCATION
Nagpour, India (Online)
JOIN US: INDIA URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS 2020
WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN
We are happy to share the upcoming Urban Thinkers Campus 5.0- Think innovAte aCT For Urban cLimate-change (TACTFUL): Towards Implementation of New Urban Agenda in India. Join us, if you are interested
@urbancampaign @UNHABITAT #TakeAction4Cities
YEAR
20 November 2020
LOCATION
Nagpour, India
RUPD PARTICIPATED IN COOL ABU DHABI COMPETITION CHALLENG TO MITIGATE THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS
RUPD's public space design proposal for an urban area in Abu Dhabi to mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) effect, provide thermal comfort and a pleasant environment for the people
YEAR
12 May 2020
LOCATION
Abu Dhabi, UAE
URBAN THINKER CAMPUS EVENT AT WORLD URBAN FORUM 10 ORGANIZED BY UN-HABITAT
Parisa Kloss was delighted and honoured to be invited
as one of the panelists in ''Urban Thinker Campus Event'' at WUF10 organized by UN-Habitat
YEAR
12 February 2020
LOCATION
Abu Dhabi, UAE
RUPD PARTICIPATED AT WORLD URBAN FORUM 10
RUPD participated at WUF10 organized by UN-Habitat
YEAR
07-14 February 2020
LOCATION
Abu Dhabi, UAE
PARTNER MEETING FOR KLUTC2019 ORGANIZATION AT KUALA LUMPUR CITY HALL
Meeting partners for the last arrangements and organization of KLUTC2019 at Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL)
YEAR
27 November 2019
LOCATION
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PROPOSAL APPROVED BY WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN FOR ORGANIZING KUALA LUMPUR URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS 2019
Kuala Lumpur Urban Thinkers Campus proposal titled ''Combating the Urban Climate Change in South East Asia: Towards Implementation of New Urban Agenda'' has been approved by World Urban Campaign, UN-Habitat
YEAR
30 March 2019
LOCATION
Kenya, Nairobi
PROJECT MEETING AT KUALA LUMPUR CITY HALL
Project meeting with Kuala Lumpur Deputy of Mayor for starting cooperation among RUPD, Kuala Lumpur City Hall, The National University of Malaysia and Veritas Company
YEAR
21 February 2018
LOCATION
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
''STAND-BY MIND HOTEL'' DESIGN ON THE PROCESS
RUPD is designing a hotel called ''Stand-by Mind''
YEAR
12 March 2017
LOCATION
Senja, Norway
RUPD'S TRAINING COURSES AT HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN, SEMINAR FÜR LÄNDLICHE ENTWICKLUNG (SLE)
Parisa Kloss joined SLE at Humboldt University Berlin as external lecturer for series of lectures on “The Urban Heat Island Effects and Mitigation Strategies“
YEAR
06 October 2016- Now
LOCATION
Berlin, Germany
RUPD CONTRIBUTED IN GERF PROJECT
GERMAN-EGYPTIAN JOINT PROJECT
RUPD contributed to German-Egyptian Research Fund (GERF) Project on “Improving Environmental Performance in Informal Areas and Reducing Urban Heat Island Phenomenon''
YEAR
01 September - 01 December 2016
LOCATION
Cairo, Egypt
RUPD'S TRAINING COURSE FOR STUDENTS AT ART UNIVERSITY
RUPD's training course on “Cities and Climate Change“ at Art University, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design
YEAR
22 May 2016
LOCATION
Tehran, Iran
RUPD'S TRAINING COURSE FOR MUNICIPALITY OFFICIALS
RUPD's training course on “Cities and Climate Change“ in Tehran Urban Research & Planning Centre at Tehran Municipality
YEAR
02 May 2016
LOCATION
Tehran, Iran
RUPD WON FIRST PRIZE AT TEHRAN WORLD AWARD ORGANIZED BY TEHRAN MUNICIPALITY
First prize in Proposal Category titled "A Step Towards Urban Resilience: Development of Planning Principles and Architectural Design with Implementation Guidelines to Improve the Climatic Function of Buildings in Tehran City''
YEAR
14 December 2015
LOCATION
Tehran, Iran
RUPD'S PUBLICATION IN DESIGNER MAGAZINE
A paper titled ''From Stability to Dynamic: Urban Resilience and Sustainability'' (in Persian) written by Parisa Kloss published in Designer Magazine, No.11, Summer 2015
YEAR
20 August 2015
LOCATION
Tehran, Iran
RUPD PARTICIPATED IN SYMPOSIUM ON SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE
Speech by Parisa Kloss at ''Symposium on Sustainability and Resilience'' organized by Designer Magazine
YEAR
01 October 2014
LOCATION
Tehran, Iran
1ST SYMPOSIUM OF RUPD IN COOPERATION WITH MINISTRY OF ROADS AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN TEHRAN, IRAN
1st Symposium of RUPD on ''Urban Climate Change Resilience: with Focus on Urban Heat Island Phenomenon'' in cooperation with Ministry of Roads and Urban Development
YEAR
03 September 2014
LOCATION
Tehran, Iran
''BRUCKNER 20 VILLA'' DESIGN ON THE PROCESS
RUPD is designing a sustainable villa in Bornheim/Merten
YEAR
09 August 2014
LOCATION
Bornheim, Germany
SPECIAL SESSION: THE CITY WE NEED NOW
ORGANIZED BY WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN, UN-HABITAT AT WORLD URBAN FORUM 11
Parisa Kloss was honoured to be one of the panelist in the ''The City We Need Now'' session to discuss about the priority actions to achieve Resilience, Low-Carbon and Climate Compatable Cities
YEAR
28 June 2022
LOCATION
Katowice, Poland
WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Parisa Kloss was honoured to be elected as a steering committee member of World Urban Campaign of UN-Habitat. She is one of the chairs in Business Partner Constituent Group
YEAR
21 June 2022
LOCATION
Nairobi, Kenya
SERIES OF LECTURES AT CAIRO UNIVERSITY, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEWYORK AND JOHANNESBURG UNIVERSITY
Parisa Kloss was honoured to be invited by three universities to discuss ''Developing Adaptation Strategies to Tackle Urban Heat Island Effects''
YEAR
18 and 19 April 2022
27 May 2022
LOCATION
Johannesburg university
Cairo University
The State University of New York (online)
KLUTC2022, URBAN LAB 3: KEEPING TRACK OF PROGRESS TO ACHIEVE SDGSAND IMPLEMENT THEM ON THE GROUND
Parisa Kloss contributed as a speaker to Urban Lab 3 at the 2d Kuala Lumpur UTC 2022 on ''Innovation and Technology-Based Approach to Achieve Climate Adaptive Cities''
YEAR
11 Febraury 2022
LOCATION
Mannheim, Germany (online)
SMART CITIES: CRITICAL DEBATES ON BIG DATA, URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
A chapter of the book has been written by Parisa Kloss titled ''The interaction between intelligence and resilience of cities''. It discusses successful factors and obstacles that cities are facing to develop smart city.
YEAR
12 November 2021
LOCATION
London, England (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group)
RUPD GbR APPOINTED AS A PARTNER OF
WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN (WUC)
RUPD is proud to be appointed as a partner in the World Urban Campaign (WU),an initiative of UN-Habitat
YEAR
31 January 2022
LOCATION
Kenya, Nairobi
UN-HABITAT WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN, COP26 CLIMATE ACTION LEARNING EVENT
Parisa Kloss was honoured to be invited as one of the speakers of UN-Habitat, World Urban Campaign (WUC) programme at COP26 Climate Action Learning Event
YEAR
10 November 2021
LOCATION
Glasgow, England (Online)
MALAYSIA URBAN FORUM (MUF)
SUSTAINABLE URBAN NATION 2030: BETTER CITIES FOR ALL WITH COVID-19
Parisa Kloss was honoured to be invited as one of the speakers at MUF 2021, Business Leaders Roundtable: ''Financing Sustainable Urban Development''
YEAR
07 September 2021
LOCATION
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
LOCALIZING SDGS RELATED TO URBAN CLIMATE CHANGE IN KUALA LUMPUR
RUPD collaborated with the National University of Malaysia on publishing a book. We used ''City WORKS Tool'' to localize SDGs related to urban climate change in KL. The tool has been developed by GIZ Bonn.
YEAR
11 January 2021
LOCATION
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
INAUGURAL SESSION OF MINISTER OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS OF NAGPUR AT INDIA URBAN THINKER CAMPUS 2020
Inaugural session of #UTC_INTACT by Hon. Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Sh. Nitin Gadkari.
YEAR
09-11 December 2020
LOCATION
Nagpour, India (Online)
SHARE YOUR IDEAS: INDIA URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS 2020
WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN
We will be glad to receive your innovative ideas to tackle urban climate change. Join and share them with us
YEAR
25 November 2020
LOCATION
Nagpour, India (Online)
PROPOSAL APPROVED BY WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN FOR ORGANIZING INDIA URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS 2020
India Urban Thinkers Campus proposal titled ''Think innovAte aCT For Urban cLimate change (TACTFUL)'' has been approved by World Urban Campaign, UN-Habitat
YEAR
18 August 2020
LOCATION
Kenya, Nairobi
VIRTUAL MEETING WITH MALAYSIAN PARTNERS FOR
''KLIMATE'' PROJECT
Virtual meeting with Malaysian partners (UKM, Urbanice and KPKT) for ''KL Integrated and innovative sustainable Measures to mitigAte urban heaT island Effects (KLIMATE)'' project
YEAR
02 April 2020
LOCATION
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysaia (Online)
''LAB CITIES 4.5: ACCELERATING SUSTAINABLE SMART CITY'' AT WORLD URBAN FORUM 10
Parisa Kloss was honoured to be among the panelist in ''Lab City 4.5: Accelerating Sustainable Smart City'' at WUF10 organized by Urbanice Malaysia
YEAR
11 February 2020
LOCATION
Abu Dhabi, UAE
KUALA LUMPUR URBAN THINKER CAMPUS 2019 (KLUTC2019) WORLD URBAN CAMPAIGN
RUPD was honoured to be one of the main partners and organizers of KLUTC2019 titled ''Combating the Urban Climate Change in South East Asia: Towards Implementation of New Urban Agenda''. Cooperation between RUPD, UKM, DBKL, KPKT, Urbanice Malaysia, GIZ
YEAR
07-09 December 2019
LOCATION
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
''HOVERING ON THE AIR'' DESIGN ON THE PROCESS
RUPD is designing a residential complex called ''Hovering on the Air''
YEAR
17 April 2019
LOCATION
Dubai, UAE
''VILLA ON THE ROCKS'' DESIGN ON THE PROCESS
RUPD PARTICIPATED AT WORLD URBAN FORUM 9
RUPD participated at WUF9 organized by UN-Habitat
YEAR
7-13 February 2018
LOCATION
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
KICK OFF MEETING AT MINISTRY OF URBAN WELLBEING, HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA
Kick off meeting for our project titled ''Optimization of Climatic Performance of Urban Areas in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia'' with Secretary General of Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government
YEAR
13 January 2017
LOCATION
Putrajaya, Malaysia
LECTURE AT CAIRO UNIVERSITY, ARCHITECTURAL DEPARTMENT
Lecture by Parisa Kloss on “Impacts of Urban Parameters on Micro-Climate Changes'' at Cairo University, Architectural Department
YEAR
04 September 2016
LOCATION
Cairo, Egypt
RUPD'S PROJECT PROPOSAL AWARDED AT HAFEN UNIVERSITY HAMBURG
Project proposal titled ''Optimization of Climatic Performance of Urban Areas in Hamburg to decrease energy consumption and adapt to climate change'' awarded at Hafencity University for 3 months research project
YEAR
15 August - 15 November 2016
LOCATION
Hamburg, Germany
RUPD'S INTENSIVE TRAINING COURSES FOR ACADEMIA AT TEHRAN UNIVERSITY
RUPD's intensive courses on “Climate Adaptive Architecture and Urban Planning countering Urban Climate Change“ at Tehran University
YEAR
11-12 May 2016
LOCATION
Tehran, Iran
RUPD PARTICIPATED IN IDEA COMPETITION FOR THE BERLIN MUSEUM OF THE 20TH CENTURY
RUPD participated in Ideas Competition for the Berlin Museum of the 20th Century and its urban integration
YEAR
12 February 2016
LOCATION
Berlin, Germany
DEUTSCHE WELLE PUBLISHED AN INTERVIEW FROM RUPD'S CEO
Deutsche Welle interviewed Parisa Kloss about ''Urban Resilience Against Earthquake in Tehran, Iran'' (in Persian)
YEAR
03 September 2015
LOCATION
Bonn, Germany
3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COUNTERMEASURES TO URBAN HEAT ISLAND
Speech by Parisa Kloss at ''3rd International Conference on Countermeasures to Urban Heat Island''
YEAR
13 October 2014
LOCATION
Venice, Italy
2ND SYMPOSIUM OF RUPD IN COOPERATION WITH
QAZVIN PROVINCE ROAD AND URBANISM OFFICE
2nd Symposium of RUPD on ''Urban Climate Change Resilience: with Focus on Urban Heat Island Phenomenon'' in cooperation with Qazvin Province Road and Urbanism Office
YEAR
04 September 2014
LOCATION
Qazvin, Iran
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE AND URBAN RESILIENCE SUMMER SCHOOL, BAUHAUS UNVESITÄT WEIMER
Lecture by Parisa Kloss on ''Meaning of Urban Heat Island for Planning''
YEAR
19 August 2014
LOCATION
Weimar, Germany
23RD SRA-E CONFERENCE ON ''RESILIENCE OF REGIONS IN THE FACE OF RISKS''
Speech by Parisa Kloss at 23rd SRA-E Conference
YEAR
17 June 2014
LOCATION
Istanbul, Turkey
LECTURE AT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
URBAN MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
Lecture by Parisa Kloss on ''Cities and Climate Change'' for Master students at Technical Universität Berlin, Urban Management Department
YEAR
9 December 2013
LOCATION
Berlin, Germany
RESILIENT URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT (RUPD) GBR
RUPD established in Berlin
YEAR
15 August 2013
LOCATION
Berlin, Germany
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