Linear City
Urban planning concepts exploring linear, modular, and adaptive city structures that respond to contemporary needs.
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.
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.
CIVIC HEARTH
Designing Social Infrastructure for India's Industrial Landscapes
Superimpose Architecture Splits a Hangzhou Transit Hub into Valley and Cloud
A 72,000-square-meter mixed-use TOD complex near Alibaba's campus pairs human-scaled green terraces with serene tower volumes.
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.
City Center, Indore: A Mixed-Use Thesis That Folds Market, Culture and Hotel into One Walkable Node
Keshav Rathi's thesis reinterprets the Indian market as a compact urban node where retail streets, a cultural plaza and a stepped hotel share ground.
Linear City: Modular AI-Driven Urbanism Where Pods Replace Buildings
A speculative linear metropolis of 3D-printed recyclable pods, drone ports, and an intelligent spine connecting Asian megacities by monorail.
Life Within 1 KM: A Walkable Microtown Planted in Moscow's Post-Industrial ZIL District
A 40-30-30 live-work-play masterplan that folds aquaponics, passive solar design, and shared workspaces into a single walkable kilometer.
The Unplugged City: Twin Towers That Float Above Urban Limits
A pair of interconnected vertical structures reimagine high-density living through radial planning, shared infrastructure, and sky-bound urbanism.
Longa-polis: Diagnosing the City as a Body Under Duress
A speculative megastructure treats late-stage capitalism as a spatial pathogen, proposing an immune response built from steel, ritual, and confrontation.
Fluid Syntax
As tides rise, ecologies shift, and storms intensify, cities must move beyond survival and embrace the ability to adapt. Fluid Syntax imagines a future where urban life is no longer static but alive.
