Tactical Urbanism
Small-scale interventions and temporary strategies that activate and reshape urban spaces through community engagement and adaptive design.
Customized Instant City Module Operating System: A Second, Movable City Above Barcelona's Eixample
A post-metabolist plan for Barcelona's Eixample inserts a mobile lattice of modules into the air, rooftops and courtyards rather than razing the grid.
Instant City: Archigram's Roaming Metropolis Rebuilt as a Fleet of Unfolding Cultural Modules
A fleet of autonomous modules unfolds from compact transport forms into stages, markets and cinemas, turning plazas into temporary cultural venues.
The Empty Space: Modular Units That Turn Plazas, Parks and Streets into Open Stages
Lianping Xia's runner-up Opera Truck entry reads Peter Brook's empty space as a modular framework that performers, audiences and cities keep redefining.
Temporary Identity: Modular Housing That Lets Bologna's Pilastro District Change Without Displacement
A reversible layer of prefabricated, relocatable living units slips between Pilastro's slabs, absorbing change so residents never have to leave.
Urban Oasis: Turning a Former Spandau Barracks into a Dense District That Grows Its Own Green
Varlygin and Soshnikova recast Berlin's garden culture as an urban typology, weaving greenhouses and shared plots into a densified former barracks site.
Transitional Linkage: An Elevated Pedestrian Spine That Formalizes a City's Most Dangerous Shortcut
Zillur Rahman turns an informal crossing over rail and highway into a raised civic spine that ties six transport modes together at a single shared level.
60×60: A Modular Framework for Rebuilding Aleppo After Conflict
Reclaimed materials and a simple 60x60 module become the basis for social healing, craft economies, and collective memory in post-conflict Aleppo.
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.
Cantero: A Smart Urban Gardening Unit That Turns Sidewalks into Shared Farms
Arduino sensors, Bluetooth crop instructions, and modular construction converge in a public furniture piece designed to activate neglected urban zones.
Trilogy Tetrahedrons: Public Furniture That Decays, Regrows, and Persists
Murrill Oakes designs triangular timber structures that evolve through three lifecycle phases, merging reclaimed wood with natural growth.
Health & The City: Turning Mumbai's Footpaths into Wellness Infrastructure
A modular urban furniture system embeds exercise, hydration, and rest into Mumbai's pedestrian network to fight a citywide health crisis.
Bloc: Modular Urban Furniture That Reclaims the City's Forgotten Spaces
A cellulose-polymer kit of parts turns extra-wide sidewalks and parking buffers into seating, bike racks, and performance stages.
