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52 Projects 45 Journals 9 Publications

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Civic space encompasses the physical environments where communities gather, connect, and participate in public life. These spaces range from permanent cultural institutions to temporary installations, serving as venues for social interaction, cultural expression, and collective experience.

The community explores adaptive reuse of industrial materials, modular and flexible design systems, and interventions that activate underutilized urban areas. Projects range from shipping container hubs and brutalist conversions to speculative urban visions and performance-oriented architectures that prioritize accessibility and community engagement.

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pravin and 3 others

354

NEO-CONNECT

"People make cities & it is to them, that we must fit our plans"- Jane Jacobs Due to the urban sprawl & limited land resources, the public open spaces in the city are vanishing. We envision CP as an inclusive multi layered public utility space, which would promote community interactions & serve as an inclusive and sustainable unit for an equitable city.

Selen and 2 others

169

CUBE(ish)

People are in a rush between their home and workplaces. They sometimes miss the opportunity to pause, look around and feel good. At this point in-between spaces (between home and workplace) in cities draw attention. Our concept is an in-between space which creates an escape point from daily rush.

Revathi and Pallavi

Entangled

Between the mountains by Zaha Hadid, Daniel Lieskind & Bjarke Ingels comes the entangled valley exclusively for the creative minds to envision their creative spaces. A valley that overlooks the ancient city to the modern city. A valley built for the creative minds at affordable price tags with spaces created with recycled materials at the guild of ambience.

Rana and Amirhosein

Serendipity

Every house must answer all fundamental needs for a human.Before overgrowing of cities and residential towers,houses were connected to the street with smaller streets giving the dwellers an opportunity to interact with people of neighborhood.today apartments connect units by stairs and elevators which are in lack of Serendipity.

승현 and 2 others

CLUSTAINER

We propose spaces for students' housing by connecting these parking lots with various features of the city. Containers move into the city, combine with parking lots, form clusters and combine with cities.

Alexia

Community Hub

A cultural micro-causum.

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog3 months ago

Shell+Core Carve a Brutalist Coffee House and Concept Store from Raw Concrete in Dubai

Koncrete Space on Jumeirah's Dar Al Wasl road merges specialty coffee, curated retail, and a sunken majlis into 215 square meters of raw finishes.

Flexible Spaces

Metaphorical Space

Bhavi Jain

publishedDesign Process3 months ago

CIVIC HEARTH

Designing Social Infrastructure for India's Industrial Landscapes

Town Planning

Civic Space

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

GRAFT Reassembles 35 Shipping Containers into a Temporary Cultural Hub on Kurfürstendamm

POP Kudamm turns a vacant Berlin lot into a Place of Participation, built from the recycled bones of an earlier cultural venue.

Cultural Hub

Exhibition Space

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

The Empty Space: Modular Units That Turn Plazas, Parks and Streets into Open Stages

Lianping Xia's runner-up Opera Truck entry reads Peter Brook's empty space as a modular framework that performers, audiences and cities keep redefining.

Space Urbanism

Urban Void