Future City
Speculative urban design exploring how cities might evolve through modular systems, adaptive housing, and emerging technologies.
Living Hallow: Interwoven Futures: A Settlement That Grows Its Own Building Material
A Johannesburg proposal plants fibrous crops to heal its ground, then imagines homes, courtyards and public spaces built from what it harvests.
New Urban Unit: A Radial City Block Designed to Switch Between Everyday Life and Crisis Mode
A circular plan, a stepped tower and gardens that double as food supply recast the utopian city as a shelter for creativity and survival.
Smart City: An Autonomous Urban Cell That Quarantines a Neighborhood, Not an Apartment
Towers, a rolling green roof and a domed hospital ward form a self-sufficient urban cell built to keep daily life running when the city locks down.
IwamotoScott 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.
HYPERBLOCK: A Catalogue of Strategies for Growing Barcelona Upward
Vicky Daroca's Editor's Choice entry layers nine flexible massing systems above Cerdà's 133-metre grid without erasing the city beneath.
Manzana Morphosis: Stretching Barcelona's Grid into a Living Landscape for 2050
A radical reworking of the Eixample manzana turns density into a tool for generous public space, vertical ecology, and environmental performance.
Resource City: A 120-Meter Tower That Makes Cairo's Waste Visible
In Manshiyat Naser, a vertical recycling complex turns garbage collection into public architecture, education, and commerce.
Barcelona in 2050: Recovering the Courtyard as Climate and Civic Infrastructure
A shortlisted Hyperblock entry reimagines Barcelona's Cerdà grid as a network of courtyards, water channels, and layered public spaces for 2050.
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COMMU[C]ITY: Stacking Barcelona's Everyday Life into Green Modular Towers for 2050
A 3 x 3 hyperblock in Barcelona becomes a compact ecosystem of modular Cerdà Towers, planted terraces and shared ground built around proximity.
