Sustainable Cities
Design approaches for creating environmentally responsible, livable cities that balance human needs with ecological systems.
COMMU[C]ITY
Commu[C]ity aims to create integrated-compact urban infrastructures, restore nature in urban forms, reduce carbon emissions and vehicular footprints, and promote future mobility models. Commu[C]ity is an urban form of red2g3qskbb0hwf.cloudfront.net/ethinking land use plan by providing Cerda Towers, a new way to live-work-play just in your next door.
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An urban social network
Our proposal implies a way to design the city thinking of all population segments, from little kids that start to discover their neighborhood to senior citizens that hardly go out anymore because their needs have changed. We designed a m
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.
THE OASIS BIOME: A REGENERATIVE AGROECOSYSTEM
An inquiry into regenerative agro-structure through the design of The Oasis Biome, this report explores how architecture can act as a living ecosystem to support climate-resilient food production. Drawing from standards of agroecology, managed environment agriculture, and water-saving technology, it proposes a spatial systems where cultivation, conservation, and community empowerment intersect. The project is situated in Birulia, Savar, and serves as a design-primarily based academic research under the Bachelor of Architecture program at Southeast University.
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.
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Saigon Pacemaker: A Riverside Market That Works as a Mangrove-Shrimp Ecosystem
A Mangrove-Shrimp Farming-Field system turns a Saigon River market into productive landscape, environmental infrastructure and classroom at once.
Making architecture that is really sustainable
Design for kids where 'Form Follows Climate'
Heba Rasheed – Family Friendly Cities: The Role of Urban Planning in Creating Safe, Inclusive, and Supportive Environments for Families – 2025
This publication presents my Master's dissertation completed in 2026, exploring the role of urban planning in creating family-friendly cities. The research examines planning principles, urban design strategies, and policy frameworks that promote safety, inclusivity, accessibility, and well-being for families. Through literature review, case studies, and analytical research, the dissertation proposes planning recommendations for developing supportive and sustainable urban environments that enhanc
Mud-Ulor Bus
İn my opinion it's fantastic.
It is sustainable functional and perfectly designed.
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Fantastic
Linear City
The increased presence and use of automation and artificial intelligence in society will create radical changes to the way people live and work This project provides new ways to live and work for both people with and without the skills still needed to hold a job By creating an adaptable and expandable city AI can begin to best serve the needs of everyone.
Future Energy Metropolis in Hamburg, Germany
In this project scenario a part of the former harbor of Hamburg will be redeveloped into a sustainable city district
Imagining Transit Villages in India: A Scalable Solution for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in India
This research presents a novel framework for Transit Villages as a scalable and inclusive urban planning model for India. By critically examining existing TOD approaches and comparing international and Indian case studies, the study proposes people-centric planning strategies that enhance mobility, affordability, and environmental sustainability while addressing the challenges of rapid urbanization and peri-urban growth.
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY, SIRAJGANJ
In Bangladesh, the energy recovery from waste can be an alternative for meeting the local demand. The main objective of thi was not just energy production; it also aimed to create a self-sustaining and environmentally friendly industry, while making scope for social integration.
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Productive Organism : Sustainable Living Habitat in Urban Peripheries
The aim of the thesis is the restructuring and upgradation of housing and landscape (ecology & built environments) in the urban peripheries to integrate sustainable systems. It explores a form of sustainable urbanism, to create an ecosystem of living conditions and natural systems and developing a form of sustainable living habitat which is more contextual.
Interesting approach to the mixed-use definition. Good study of the modules and their variety/flexibility. We have appreciated the consideration of the 'facility strategies', gives a realistic approach. I would only add that maybe the height could be reconsidered.
The “compact space” is projected as a conflict between open and enclose space. It gives architecture a dimension of depth that is not exhausted on the spatial scale, but works jointly with the open space to manifest its void as a possibility. It is a probability and it is shown as a dominion of the region of possibility. It transcends the "being object" of architecture at the moment or stage of its apprehension by our awareness.