Sustainable Urban Design
Design approaches that integrate environmental responsibility, social equity, and ecological systems into cities and urban infrastructure.
Life line of a city
A city has it's own vibration and essence. This life of the city affects it's citizen in a subconsciousness matter. Through this symbiosis within city and urban furniture, a new aspect of life can be given to the city and it's citizens. Our aim is to reveal the life of the city to it's citizens.
Ghiya: Reinterpreting Cairo's Informal Skyline Through Brick, Recycled Wood, and Local Identity
A winning proposal that treats Manshiyat Naser's unfinished rooftops and exposed brickwork not as problems to solve but as an architectural language to ext
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.
prOpencity: Where the Common Man Presides
‘(pr)OpenCity’ advocates a collaborative design method for future development: one that allows rapid application with its prototypical nature and an inclusive approach with mediation between the ‘user’ and the ‘urban’. Building upon the concepts of ‘open-sourcing’ in design, this experiment establishes a user-centric design approach to design the densifying
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.
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.
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.
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.
Making architecture that is really sustainable
Design for kids where 'Form Follows Climate'
Floating Urban Village: Modular Platforms for a Climate-Resilient Community on Water
A shortlisted entry for Afloat reimagines Indonesian coastal settlement as an expandable network of floating residential and agricultural modules.
An Urban Social Network: Reweaving Cerdà's Eixample Around Children, Seniors and Everyday Encounters
Ivette Caveli adds a distributed layer of plazas, canopies and green roofs to Barcelona's Eixample, treating benches and playgrounds as infrastructure.
Barcelonas Vein: A Landscaped Spine That Bends Cerdà's Grid Toward a Pedestrian Barcelona of 2050
A green diagonal cuts through Barcelona's octagonal blocks, opening chamfered corners into courtyards and the hyperblock interior into civic ground.
The illusion of permanence: the design for disassembly framework
Traditional architecture’s focus on permanence overlooks the environmental constraints of climate urgency. Design for Disassembly (DfD) challenges this by planning buildings to be dismantled, reused, or relocated. This thesis investigates the ecological and socio-economic potentials of DfD, exploring how modularity and reversible connections shape future-oriented construction. Shifting focus from building to responsibly unbuilding redefines permanence for a sustainable lifecycle.
very interesting
Fatiha Tanjim Oni _ Portfolio Undergrad (2020-2025)
This portfolio curates architectural and urban design works from a five-year undergraduate journey. Grounded in New Contextualism and river urbanism, the selection highlights diversity in scale - from fragile disaster response to large-scale adaptive reuse and master planning, showing how academic inquiry translates into resilient spatial strategies.
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
From Grey to Green: Retrofitting Urban Infrastructure for Climate Resilience and Community Well-Being
This dissertation explores retrofitting as a strategy for transforming existing urban infrastructure into resilient, inclusive, and climate-responsive environments. Through policy analysis and Indian case studies, it demonstrates how adaptive reuse and passive design can reduce environmental impact while enhancing urban liveability, positioning retrofitting as a sustainable alternative to demolition-led redevelopment.
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.
Nice concept.