Dystopian Architecture
Speculative architecture exploring built environments in dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and radically transformed futures.
STACKED//METROPOLIS: Earth-Block Towers in Accra Linked by a Ring of Sky Bridges
Five stacked towers of earthen blocks and dark steel circle a courtyard that turns into a tented marketplace after dark, with bakeries at their feet.
HARLEM USTOPIA
Harlem Ustopia reimagines East Harlem’s future after forced displacement. From a demolished landscape, a synthetic network grows, reconnecting memory, public life, and housing through adaptive modular structures and autonomous technologies. A new community, regrown.
The Ocean Hive: A Honeycomb Colony That Grows Unit by Unit Across a Drowned Pacific
An Editor's Choice entry that starts with 20 hexagonal units and expands into floating neighbourhoods arranged around a shared central square at sea.
Re-Coding Post War Syria: Mud Brick, Timber Frames and a Rooftop That Waits to Be Built
Two small buildings in Syria pair broken brick walls with vine-hung pergolas, betting that a community rebuilds itself by finishing what it starts.
Architecture of the Apocalypse
Using Space Technology to colonize earth again after Apocalypse
Moscow Metro Shelter: Turning the Underground Network into a City That Keeps Everyday Life Running
Three designers recast Moscow's deep metro stations as linked habitat nodes, arguing that survival architecture must protect routine, not just bodies.
Neo-Covenant: A Runner-up Settlement Where Returning Spacefarers Meet Lalibela's Underground Survivors
An expandable habitat in Lalibela, Ethiopia, fuses energy, food, research and memory into one artificial ecosystem for a humanity relearning Earth.
Bunkertecture: A Winning Proposal That Turns a Missile Silo into a Daily Underground Community
A decommissioned missile silo becomes a self-sufficient settlement where housing, farming and work run every day, not only when disaster strikes.
Pie in the Sky: A 300-Metre Hydrogen Airship That Moves the Farm to Wherever the Weather Is Good
Habiba Mukhtar treats climate as a route rather than a site, lifting 160 people, their crops and a closed resource loop into a drifting airborne village.
The illusion of permanence: the design for disassembly framework
Traditional architecture’s focus on permanence overlooks the environmental constraints of climate urgency. Design for Disassembly (DfD) challenges this by planning buildings to be dismantled, reused, or relocated. This thesis investigates the ecological and socio-economic potentials of DfD, exploring how modularity and reversible connections shape future-oriented construction. Shifting focus from building to responsibly unbuilding redefines permanence for a sustainable lifecycle.
very interesting
Recolonizing Home: A Himalayan Survival Machine for a Planet Drowned to Its Peaks
An Editor's Choice colony on Mount Kanchenjunga stacks water, oxygen, food and energy systems into one tapering tower shaped by wind and rising seas.
e-den: A Mangrove-Inspired Seed for Recolonizing and Repairing a Post-Apocalyptic Earth
Shortlisted in Architecture of the Apocalypse 2020, e-den recasts colonization as repair: a mangrove-like seed that shelters people and heals land.
The Commercial Ground Floor: Catalyst of an Unplanned Centrality . Jet Sakane, Agadir, Morocco
This Master's thesis in architecture examines how the commercial ground floors of collective housing blocks in the Jet Sakane neighbourhood of Agadir, Morocco, generate an unplanned urban centrality. Combining field observation, cartographic analysis, and user interviews, the research shows how appropriation practices exceed the conceived framework and transform standardised pavements into lived spaces of identity and sociability.
Curved-Living
The design offers curved life with a gravitational and non-gravity environment to supply the minimum needs.
Synchronicity
An exploration of an efficient future where humans and artificial intelligence work together to create utopia. Skyscraper location Seoul, South Korea.
Visually striking presentation and daring concept. Good grasp on mechanical aesthetic. Well through through scheme.