Sustainable Cities
Design approaches for creating environmentally responsible, livable cities that balance human needs with ecological systems.
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.
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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.
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.
The Adsequor: A Leaning Tower in Izmir That Harvests Rain and Spares the Meles Delta
A People's Choice entry that tilts a hotel tower northeast, using its lean to harvest rain and spread its weight across fragile wetland soil.
The Shelter: A Copenhagen Bridge That Stacks Cyclists, Pedestrians and a Bird Sanctuary
Eve C's harbour crossing nests cycle lanes, an elevated promenade, civic programmes and a 15-metre planted tower for birds into one curving structure.
Productive Organism: A Mumbai Thesis That Treats Peripheral Housing as a Tool for Ecological Repair
Amod Nargund's thesis for Marve, Malvani layers mangrove ecology, adaptive housing and water cycles into a habitat that works like a living organism.
A City Knit & Fit: Turning Mumbai's Railways into Living Infrastructure
A proposal to transform over 100 hectares of Mumbai's rail corridors into layered systems of housing, water management, and green mobility.
Sustainable Urban Funfair: Turning Food Production Into a Civic Playground
A shortlisted proposal for the Urban Meal Mine competition reimagines the New Convent Market as a hydroponic funfair wrapped in pink steel and ruins.
Future Farms: Where Aquaponics, Markets, and Public Life Converge Under Glass
A transparent urban food system weaves aquaponic towers, greenhouse pavilions, and stormwater infrastructure into the civic fabric of the city.
City Fields: Where Sloped Gardens and Market Halls Merge Agriculture into Urban Fabric
A layered architectural ecosystem of rooftop farms, aquaponic systems, and community markets that repositions the city as both producer and consumer.
The Nexus Urban Farm: Closed-Loop Agriculture Woven into City Infrastructure
Hetvi Patel's proposal fuses aquaponics, vertical gardening, and geodesic domes into a self-sustaining urban food ecosystem at Nine Elms.
