Sustainable Urban Design
Design approaches that integrate environmental responsibility, social equity, and ecological systems into cities and urban infrastructure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
URBANSCAPE: Symbiosis Turns Guwahati's Street Furniture into Flood Infrastructure
Bamboo bus stops, parklets, and modular benches work as ecological micro-systems to absorb monsoon runoff along Rajgarh Road, Guwahati.
Urban Oasis: A Solar-Powered Rubik's Cube That Wants to Fix City Streets
A self-charging modular kiosk draws from the Rubik's Cube to pack seating, water purification, and digital services into one compact urban unit.
