Sustainable Urban Design
Design approaches that integrate environmental responsibility, social equity, and ecological systems into cities and urban infrastructure.
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.
Garden: Sustainable Architecture Reimagines the Urban Void Beneath Leaside Bridge
Garden transforms the void beneath Leaside Bridge through sustainable architecture, greenery, social spaces, and circular stormwater design.
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: Sustainable Architecture for a Climate-Resilient Community on Water
A modular floating village uses sustainable architecture, local materials and self-sufficient systems to create resilient life on water.
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.
Productive Organism: Sustainable Living Habitat in Urban Peripheries
Reimagining urban peripheries through sustainable urbanism, where ecology, housing, and infrastructure evolve together as a living system.
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.
A Furniture That Approximates Cyclists and Pedestrians: Reclaiming Urban Leftovers
Modular aluminium and wood-plastic furniture turns neglected interstitial spaces into hubs for cycling, resting, and urban greenery in Brazilian cities.
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.
