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.
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.
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.
