Floating City
Speculative and built projects exploring cities that float, drift, or exist in unconventional spatial relationships to land and water.
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.
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.
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.
Lumino-City
Our goal is for our park Lumino-City to serve a purpose and become a destination, not just a well-planned, coherent space. Our park is in New York City at the Robert F Wanger Jr. Park. There are 5 follies located on the site with the focus being light and community.
Marina City
A hub for maritime research and education in Fredrikstad Norway at the mouth of the North-sea, Marina City utilizes fluid design techniques to integrate divesituated along the banks of the River Glomm. allowing for a dynamic curriculum focused on field-study and interactive research opportunities.
Original and interesting project. Great presentation. A bit oversized for the site/context, but definitely a place I would like to visit.
The flowing circulation of the building is inspired by water in an obvious but interesting way, and the proposal is nicely communicated through it's illustrations and supportive texts. The final outcome is a bit messy and strange to the site, but the programming and relationship to the river makes up for that.
Living Ledges
Adapting new systems for susantainable living by preserving the natural faculties we rely .
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.