Sustainable Urbanism
Design approaches that integrate ecological systems, food production, and adaptive infrastructure into urban environments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Urban Continuum:An alternative learning ecosystem
Education has increasingly become detached from the lived realities of the city. Urban Continuum proposes an alternative model in which learning is embedded within the rhythms of everyday urban life. Instead of concentrating education inside institutional boundaries, the project distributes learning across existing neighbourhood spaces, creating an interconn
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: 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.
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.
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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.
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.
A thoughtful and original approach that expands learning into everyday urban life. Further exploring how this model can operate across different public spaces could strengthen its potential and impact.
Thank you so much for the thoughtful feedback. The project grew from questioning the mono-functional nature of urban spaces and eventually led me to explore learning as something that could connect people, genetations and everyday civic life beyond the conventional campus. Your suggestion to test this model across different public spaces is something i'd really like to explore further, particularly how different urban contexts could create different opportunities for learning and collective information.