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Floating City: Projects, Journals & Ideas

54 Projects 59 Journals 12 Publications 5 Competitions

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Floating cities represent a design approach to urban expansion that challenges traditional land-based settlement patterns. Projects in this topic range from theoretical frameworks to realized installations, examining how architecture and urban planning can adapt to water, air, and other non-conventional environments.

The community explores modular systems for mobile urbanism, offshore and waterborne infrastructure, and architectural interventions that redefine the relationship between city and landscape. Work includes adaptive design strategies, instant city concepts, and speculative visions of future urban settlement.

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UNI12 works

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Grace Holdsworth4 works

Jaime Rios3 works

Amy Aguirre3 works

Rozanne Jojo2 works

Ayushi Srivastava2 works

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soheib and 3 others

367

Futuristic Floating Residents

Sea level rising in coastal cities have a negative impact on the lives of residents. Findings support the argument that traditional land reclamation methods are not a practical long term solution apart from its various disadvantages on the ecosystem.Our approach to solve this problem was to adapt to environment and use floating structure against SLR impacts.

Onur and 3 others

210

AFLOATOPOLIS

The "Afloatopolis" aims to create a new urban cross-section alternative between water and land for every city that is affected by global climate change and will disappear by sinking. The "Afloatopolis" is a project in which an architectural existence is emphasized again, but in doing so, it is reinterpreted without losing the public values.

Beatrix

157

Besahapio - the modul city

The City of Besahpio should become a destination for people from all over the world. Inspired by climatic solutions of traditional cities (transformed by modern material and new means of transport) it will become a lively and sustainable city in a harsh surrounding.

Darya and Екатерина

146

The CityGate

The CityGate is a new high building tipology. This is the stop of the ever-wandering nomads who populate the coliving and the permanent residence of groups of people or singles, the stop of ships and boats, drones and hyperloop, privat flying cars and airplanes. Planes flying to Moscow for the whole world can land on each floor of a skyscraper.

Piet

141

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.

Antonio and Phillip

104

Verzendaccommodatie

A student housing modular concept for the Amsterdam University College designed from 15 shipping containers arranged effectively.

YongYi and 3 others

Floating boundary

We hope to use the idea of symbiosis with nature and the original image of the city as a prototype to createa memorial place with humanistic care and critical spirit, and to shape this site into the control and warning boundary of maritime "construction".

Polina

Flying pancakes

In 2100, with the growth of cities, tall buildings became a necessity. The quality of spaces also changes: they evolve into hybrids, units with increased functional potential. A person lives, works and moves in a new way. Capsule drones, private and public, single and multi-cabin, became places for life, leisure, work and just means of transportation.

Kutlu and 2 others

SOCIAL_PATCH

It was to create vertically established community that would reduce the segregation of high-rise buildings by providing the flexibility to repeat the habitual life without interrupting it. Design centered on social and cultural sustainability.

Shuchuan and 3 others

Weaving Water

Our final habitat consists of several prototype cities and resource sharing pipelines. The prototype city is a giant water intake and catchment itself.The residential area is distributed on the surface of the spherical city.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults19 hours ago

Afloat: A Floating Indonesian City That Uses Shared Housing to Ease Ethnic Tension

Timber gables, fishing grids and planted islets form a water district where a common way of living becomes the ground on which neighbors meet.

Residential Building

Urban Design

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Container City: Keeping the Tower Crane On Site as the Building's Permanent Spine

A stack of reused shipping containers grows and shrinks around the crane that built it, leaving the building's future deliberately unfinished.

Container City

Future City

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

gad and SOM Set Twin Glass Towers with Angled Crowns on the Last Open Waterfront Parcel of Qingdao's Fushan Bay

On Fushan Bay in Qingdao, two blue glass towers with sliced crowns try to hold the city's need for stability against the open pull of the sea.

Floating City

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

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.

Space Urbanism

Vertical City