Connecting City
Design approaches that integrate communities, infrastructure, and local identity into urban environments.
Customized Instant City Module Operating System: A Second, Movable City Above Barcelona's Eixample
A post-metabolist plan for Barcelona's Eixample inserts a mobile lattice of modules into the air, rooftops and courtyards rather than razing the grid.
Superimpose Architecture Splits a Hangzhou Transit Hub into Valley and Cloud
A 72,000-square-meter mixed-use TOD complex near Alibaba's campus pairs human-scaled green terraces with serene tower volumes.
Instant City: Archigram's Roaming Metropolis Rebuilt as a Fleet of Unfolding Cultural Modules
A fleet of autonomous modules unfolds from compact transport forms into stages, markets and cinemas, turning plazas into temporary cultural venues.
Michel Rémon, Associés, and ARCHIMATH Reinvent the Courtyard Hospital in Morocco's Desert
A 58,000 m² medical campus near Marrakech channels the ancient Bîmâristân through fiber-concrete moucharabieh and sun-driven planning.
G/O Architecture Rewires a Seoul Student Union into a Layered Campus Living Room
A 690-square-meter renovation at Hanyang University turns a tired student building into a stack of social micro-climates along a major pedestrian axis.
The City Hub: A Copenhagen Bascule Bridge That Anchors a Floating Public Platform Beneath Its Span
A cycling bridge with two 50-metre bascule leaves and a two-level floating platform turns a Copenhagen canal crossing into a place to stay.
Commercial Bridge, Bangalore: An Inhabitable Spine Stitching Commercial Street to Brigade Road
Aafreen Fatima's thesis turns a bridge into a mixed-use public realm, shifting from open shopping street to enclosed mall across Bangalore's CBD.
Transitional Linkage: An Elevated Pedestrian Spine That Formalizes a City's Most Dangerous Shortcut
Zillur Rahman turns an informal crossing over rail and highway into a raised civic spine that ties six transport modes together at a single shared level.
City Center, Indore: A Mixed-Use Thesis That Folds Market, Culture and Hotel into One Walkable Node
Keshav Rathi's thesis reinterprets the Indian market as a compact urban node where retail streets, a cultural plaza and a stepped hotel share ground.
A New Civic Threshold: Reconnecting Tehran's Divided Urban Geography
Transforming Tehran's Central Station from a hard infrastructural edge into a permeable civic landscape that bridges upper and lower city.
Link Tree Bridge: A Cycling Bridge That Opens Like a Canopy
Branching steel supports and rotating platforms turn a pedestrian crossing into a kinetic public space above the water.
The City Link: A Copenhagen Bridge That Refuses to Be Just Infrastructure
A 100-meter drawbridge on Copenhagen's waterfront merges cycling lanes, glazed pavilions, and a counterweight mechanism into genuine public space.
