Floating City
Speculative and built projects exploring cities that float, drift, or exist in unconventional spatial relationships to land and water.
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.
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.
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.
Afloat
Designing a water resilient neighborhood
When will we be able to see all of the entries?
Please go to the "Entries" section of the site, here:- https://uni.xyz/competitions/afloat/entries
Is the entry fee 33 per person or total 33 for all members
33 for all members upto a team of 4.
CityScraper
Sustainable Skyscraper Design Challenge
Hello I am Ali Kanani Yazdi from Iran. I wanted to know if I can participate in this competition or not?
Yes, you can.
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.
Linear City
The increased presence and use of automation and artificial intelligence in society will create radical changes to the way people live and work This project provides new ways to live and work for both people with and without the skills still needed to hold a job By creating an adaptable and expandable city AI can begin to best serve the needs of everyone.
Rain
We live under towering skyscrapers, often feeling overwhelmed. To reduce this pressure, we propose a climate-responsive tower. Instead of rigid structures, the design embraces organic curves, creating a softer urban experience. With Singapore’s water agreement ending in 2061, the building integrates a rainwater system for self-sufficiency and security.
HYPERBLOCK
"At night we know these towers by their illumination in color. These yellow, red, green, blue and white towers tell us the sector we are entering and, along the approach, light is used to see by and give us direction in ideas of lighting in rhythm with our speed". Midtown Philadelphia, Louis I. Kahn.
Katsuhiko Endo Floats a Black Museum Above Osaka's Nakanoshima Island Like a City Within a City
A five-story art museum in Osaka's riverside district replaces a singular entrance with an open passage that invites the city inside.
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.
Proximity Island Frame: A Floating Platform That Holds the Horizon Still While the Sea Moves
qiaoxi wu's Editor's Choice entry rides existing offshore columns with the tide, framing the sea-sky line as a fixed datum in a restless ocean.
Atelier cnS Floats Geodesic Cloud Canopies over Derelict Grain Warehouses on the Huadi River
A cluster of hexagonal domes transforms former industrial storage in Foshan's Pearl River Delta into a riverfront public rooftop.
Proximity Island: An Abandoned Oil Rig Reborn as a Vertical Cultural Ecosystem at Sea
Sasha Pokidova stacks galleries, research spaces and co-housing cells inside a sponge-like hexagonal skin, turning offshore industry into a micro-city.
Powerhouse Company Floats a 5,880 Square Meter Office on Rotterdam's Rijnhaven
A timber-clad, solar-powered headquarters for the Global Center on Adaptation proves that climate-resilient architecture can also be inviting.
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.
A very strong analysis. Various building modules and plug & socket system offer a wide range and dynamic development possibility.
User oriented design which offers flexibility and versatility is relevant to Jakarta's ever-changing neighborhood. Rational orthogonal plan is complimented with different architectural forms which gives diversity in the neighborhood.