Space Urbanism
Exploring adaptive, modular, and experimental approaches to urban design and city planning.
New Wave: Rethinking Barcelona's Eixample Grid as a Living Urban Ecosystem
A layered hyperblock proposal separates pedestrians from vehicles and threads continuous green infrastructure through Cerdà's iconic grid.
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.
Synergize: Rewiring Barcelona's Cerdà Grid into a Cooperative Urban Network
A shortlisted Hyperblock entry dissolves block boundaries to create 800-metre pedestrian districts within Barcelona's iconic grid.
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.
Urban Retrofit: Turning Mass Housing Facades into Fields of Individual Expression
A modular balcony framework grafted onto Venezuelan public housing lets residents reshape their own domestic edge, unit by unit.
Hudson Yards: A Green Ray and Vertical Ecosystem for Manhattan's Dense Future
A shortlisted New Dencities entry organizes towers, courtyards, and a continuous landscape axis into one interconnected urban framework.
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.
GREEN GRID: Reconnecting Barcelona's Blocks Through a Continuous Public Landscape
A nine-block urban strategy that opens, terraces, and links Cerdà's courtyards into a climate-responsive green network across the city.
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COMMU[C]ITY: Sustainable Architecture Reimagines Barcelona’s Hyperblock for 2050
COMMU[C]ITY reimagines Barcelona through sustainable architecture, mixing green towers, shared streets, mobility and urban biodiversity hub.
An Urban Social Network: Sustainable Urban Design Rethinking Cerdà’s Legacy in Barcelona
An urban social network reimagines Barcelona through inclusive public space, biophilic design, walkability, and community life for all ages.
Barcelonas Vein: Sustainable Urban Design Reimagining Barcelona’s Historic Grid
Barcelona’s Vein reimagines Cerdà’s urban grid through green corridors, mixed uses and walkable public spaces for a healthier city for 2050.
Moscow Metro Shelter: Underground Architecture for Life After Environmental Collapse
Moscow Metro Shelter transforms underground architecture into a self-sufficient network for housing, food, health, research and communities.
