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Public Square: Projects, Journals & Ideas

54 Projects 39 Journals 1 Publications 3 Competitions

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Public squares are essential urban spaces where communities gather, connect, and experience shared environments. This topic explores how designers and architects approach the creation and transformation of these spaces to enhance public life and social interaction.

The community examines diverse approaches to public square design, from large-scale urban interventions and campus developments to intimate community hubs and retail podiums. Projects range from radical urban reclamation and resilience-focused planning to innovative structural solutions that reshape how people experience shared public areas.

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pravin and 3 others

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NEO-CONNECT

"People make cities & it is to them, that we must fit our plans"- Jane Jacobs Due to the urban sprawl & limited land resources, the public open spaces in the city are vanishing. We envision CP as an inclusive multi layered public utility space, which would promote community interactions & serve as an inclusive and sustainable unit for an equitable city.

Inderpreet and 2 others

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Resilient CP- 2.0

The Resilient CP 2.0 will act as a prototype, transforming the city, the country and eventually galvanizing the whole world. New CP, is superior and resilient, drives a stiring insurgent present situation, throughout the world. Providing open spaces, keeping humanity and culture alive; furnishing street with lively activities, social life and health.

Rogerio and 3 others

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Bend It

The more dense our urban environments become, the more valuable open and natural settings become. This struck me first when reviewing how the adjacent community has appropriated the abandoned train route to commune with nature and neighbors in ways that are informal, organic, creative, and productive.

Chinmay and 2 others

Connaught Plaza

As William Whyte says "What attracts people most, it would appear, is the people" and for that the space must be inclusive for all in true sense. The proposal attempts to preserve and enhance the existing value that CP is producing towards inclusivity as a Public Space.

Jannatun Nayeem and 3 others

Towards the new normal

This pavilion is directed toward the understanding of the concept of negative space in relation to interior and exterior environmental situations. The form is devoted to a series of abstract visual experiences designed to develop awareness of space and of the relationship of forms to a particular negative volume.

Alexia

Community Hub

A cultural micro-causum.

Jannatun Nayeem and 3 others

Under the Wings

this urban sculpture invites the people to the disconnected public square: Place de la Concorde to discover and experience the glorious journey of the famous Obelisk and the fountains which started hundreds of years ago.While enlivening the barren public square with interactive LED floor to invite people.

Aliakbar

PLATFORM

A PLATFORM (December 2017) acts as a catalyst for the user and space, life and activity. It dwells at the edge of the street and aims to invite people to make it as a part of their routine. PLATFORM is a systemic design approach which is developed as a module of 1-4 seater and location of each PLATFORM is decided after the study of surrounding areas.

Lianping

The empty space

"Empty space"means empty in the abstract sense,symbolizing that the theater provides a very pure background, which is given by street artists and venue environment.I apply the interface relationship and modular stage to the design and explore a suitable minimum unit and create a new viewing relationship. to adapt to any space where the design may meet.

Surabhi and Ramalakshmi

Bharat Bhavan, Chennai

The vision is to create a Culture Park to relax, gather, play and perform - an inclusive, democratic and non-iconic public space to engage with both, the incidental culture of everyday and formal modes; where local and global audience, come together without judgement, barriers or hierarchies to reflect on what is culture? and who is public?

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 days ago

Under the Wings: Fabric Canopies and a Light-Up Floor Ask Place de la Concorde to Slow Down

Four perforated canopies and an interactive LED floor turn the forgotten corners of Paris's largest square into a place people stay.

Architecture

Public Plaza

UNI Editorial

publishedResults4 days ago

Wave 'Coral': Four Perforated Canopies Bring Human Scale to a Monumental Plaza

A wavy lattice shell repeated four times around an obelisk, turning a vast paved square into pockets of shade, planting and places to sit.

Landscape Design

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog3 weeks ago

EMBT and TJAD Turn Shanghai's Century Square into a Green Stage Anchored by a Mirrored Kaleidoscope Pavilion

On East Nanjing Road in Shanghai, a renewed Century Square trades open hardscape for planted hills, sea-blue paving and a pavilion that reflects it all.

Landscape Design

Installations

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog3 months ago