Sustainable Urbanism
Design approaches that integrate ecological systems, food production, and adaptive infrastructure into urban environments.
Tinker Project: Sustainable Architecture Reimagining Cairo’s Informal Skyline
Tinker Project reimagines Cairo’s informal skyline through sustainable architecture, transforming brick, recycled wood and steel into urban optimism.
NEW WAVE: Sustainable Architecture Reimagining Barcelona’s Eixample Hyperblock
NEW WAVE reimagines Barcelona’s Eixample through sustainable architecture, green hyperblocks, pedestrian routes, and adaptable urban living.
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
An Urban Social Network: Urban Design for a Greener, More Connected Barcelona
An urban social network reimagines Barcelona’s superblocks with biophilic design, shared spaces, accessibility and stronger community lives.
SYNERGIZE: Urban Design Reimagining Barcelona’s Cerdà Blocks for 2050
SYNERGIZE reimagines Barcelona’s Cerdà blocks through urban design, connecting people, nature, mobility and adaptable public life for 2050+.
Manzana Morphosis: Stretching Barcelona's Grid into a Living Landscape for 2050
A radical reworking of the Eixample manzana turns density into a tool for generous public space, vertical ecology, and environmental performance.
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.
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.
Submersion: A Modular Kit for Building Communities Beneath the Ocean
A scalable underwater habitat system organized around repeatable hubs, standardized connections, and renewable infrastructure for long-term subsea living.
One Community: An Animal Shelter That Refuses to Hide from Its City
Bucharest's stray animal crisis becomes a catalyst for public space, memorial landscape, and social infrastructure in this layered proposal.
Social Nature: Replacing Fences with Landscape to Rethink Animal Shelter Architecture
A layered system of habitats, elevated walkways, and modular pavilions creates a gradient from public park to protected animal territory.
The Sub-MarinaTube: A Plastic-Recycling City Beneath the Pacific Garbage Patch
Vertical towers and horizontal tubes organize an underwater settlement that combines habitation, marine research, and ocean waste recovery.
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: 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.
COMMU[C]ITY: Sustainable Architecture Reimagines Barcelona’s Hyperblock for 2050
COMMU[C]ITY reimagines Barcelona through sustainable architecture, mixing green towers, shared streets, mobility and urban biodiversity hub.
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Saigon Pacemaker: Sustainable Architecture Reimagining the Future of the Saigon River
Saigon Pacemaker reimagines riverfront market through sustainable architecture, merging mangroves, aquaculture, work, learning and community
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.
