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Compact City: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Compact city design addresses the challenge of accommodating growing populations within limited urban footprints. Designers working in this area develop strategies for density, mixed-use development, and livable environments that maximize land efficiency without sacrificing quality of life.

The community explores modular and adaptable urban frameworks, transit-oriented development, and innovative center concepts. Work ranges from theoretical mobile and instant city models to practical urban lifestyle complexes and transit hubs that demonstrate how compact planning can serve diverse populations.

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UNI4 works

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Tanya Prevezentseva2 works

Jaime Rios2 works

Sahil Harjai1 work

Kevin Goldstein1 work

UNI Editorial1 work

Danay Kamdar1 work

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Piet

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Hexagon City

Hexagon City challenges the norm by using materials at hand at the building side, by making optimal use of the land and by applying low-tech solutions to supply the city with durable energy, water, shade and cooling.Although it can be added we do not prefer high-tech solutions for their need of scarce raw materials.

Gandhali

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ECO CITY:CENTER OF POWER

By next century the world population will grow from 7.7 billion in 2019 to 10.8 billion in 2080 and bring in more revelations for its sustenance. World is moving from microprocessors to super computers to wireless technology of drones. With the increase in population we are converting more and more agricultural land into a liveable enclosed space. Social med

Tanya and 2 others

01

The main idea of the project is binary system. The concept is based on the structure of binary code. There are only 0 and 1: 1 - filled structure (residential), 0 - void structure (non-residential). Thanks to the use of the algorithm, the concept uses combinations of modules that form a competent structure of the complex.

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.

Amod and 2 others

The Park Collective

The Central Park of Connaught Place is important as a social and political gathering space, as a transit node, for cultural events and festivals. The Neo-Delhi of tomorrow focuses on the park and to re-imagine the concept of the park in the context of Connaught Place.The idea of the park is broken down and redefined with a particular nature and a purpose.

Sahil

Restructuring Dwarka MRTS Station Precincts - Urban Design for Public Good

The aim of the project was to Restructure the MRTS Station Precincts in Dwarka. The project comprised of three stages, First the Documentation of the urban site, Secondly the analysis of the area and the final stage was to Redesign and Intervene the site based on the Documentation and Analysis.

Siming and jieyu

Automatic City

Going vertically: Because the city's population will grow to 1,000,000 in just 2.5*2.5mile area, going vertically is a strategy to solve the problem of land-use shortage. Automatic-driven elevator: As for the crowded traffic, we believe that with the technology of automatic drive, there would be no more traffic jam. New form of community: we imagine that i

Ayushi and 2 others

SUICHI

Suichi is a city of futuristic ocean buildings made from 3D-printed plastic waste from the Pacific which extend 300 meters below the water's surface. The project imagines a series of dome marines that would sustain the crustacean form of life. This newly invented urbanization is entirely self sufficient and energy efficient.

vicky

HYPERBLOCK

RETHINKING THE CITY AS A FLEXIBLE SYSTEM

Ondřej

SUQ

Inspired by the dry desert and antique souq markets, the new development emerges. Integrating elderly into the fabric of the city by providing lush park and commercial street in order to promote meeting between generations.

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