Open City
Exploring how cities function as open, accessible spaces shaped by community, mobility, and cultural exchange.
Tale in the City: A Portable Avant-Garde Theater That Scales from XXL to XS Across Urban Space
Sophia Moshi's shortlisted Opera Truck entry breaks opera into lightweight domes, netted platforms and modular frames that move across the city.
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.
From Vibrancy to Vacancy: Addressing the Decline of Urban Structures
“When the ‘Heart’ weeps for what it has lost, The ‘Spirit’ laughs for what it has found”
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.
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.
N.U.M.B: Nodal Urban Mechanism for Breathing
A new neighborhood system for a frozen city
The CityGate: A Vertical City Above Moscow
A supertall hybrid tower stacking an airport, offices, shops, co-living, transit, and housing into a single structure on the Moscow River.
Awakening the Proletariat: Rethinking Urban Slums Through Inclusive Architecture
From Margins to Society: Redefining Urban Spaces for Unity and Empowerment.
Bridging the Gap
“walking through a vertical city”- A vertical connection from the skyscraper to the city
City of Hope
A city that gives hope to people by starting debates and discussions on the street.
