Future City
Speculative urban design exploring how cities might evolve through modular systems, adaptive housing, and emerging technologies.
Future City encompasses architectural and urban design projects that imagine next-generation settlements. These works address how cities can adapt to changing needs through innovative spatial organization, sustainable systems, and new building typologies.
The community explores modular and mobile housing solutions, AI-driven urban planning, floating and nomadic architectures, and eco-conscious city centers. Projects range from theoretical frameworks like Linear City and Hexagon City to practical prototypes examining how architecture responds to future dwelling patterns and environmental constraints.
Open competitions in Future City
See all Future City competitionsChallenge to design a shop stop sunk in the city
Render competition to represent the city as a machine
Design challenge to equip cities with modern furniture
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View all 77 journalsIwamotoScott Lands a Three-Winged Steel Pavilion and Lookout Tower on the Rural Edge of Chengdu's Future City
A trefoil of stainless-steel wedges on Chengdu's rural fringe frames the airport, a science city and a river park around a glazed courtyard crystal.
Collective-pod: A Container Kit That Settles Where the City Splits Into Old and New, Public and Private
One family of opened-up shipping containers is tested against ruined walls, waterfronts, forests and urban gaps, rearranging itself for each one.
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.
Archiland Shapes a Sprawling New City Center for Tianjin Around the Promise of Vibrant Public Space
In Tianjin, Archiland frames a new urban center as a sprawling field of activity, testing whether large scale and everyday vibrancy can coexist.