Urban Boundaries
Design and architecture exploring the physical, social, and ecological limits that define urban spaces and their edges.
The Line: A Bridge That Unmoors Its Own Park So Ships Can Pass
Olena Osadchuk extends two city streets across the water and docks a detachable catamaran park between them, turning a crossing into a civic landscape.
Turning Borders: Rotating Urban Furniture That Humanizes the Tijuana, San Diego Border Fence
A modular system of concrete cones and turning timber seats reclaims Friendship Park as a place for encounter, respite and play beside the border wall.
Highway Urban Box: A House-Shaped Waiting Room for the City's Forgotten Highway Edges
A replicable, colour-coded house archetype claims highway shoulders and residual voids as public waiting spaces for emergencies and everyday pauses.
Urban Embroidery: Stitching Mumbai's Fragmented Transit into a Living Network
A multi-scalar mobility framework reconnects metro, rail, and BRT through green corridors and reimagined public spaces at Andheri Station.
A City Knit & Fit: Turning Mumbai's Railways into Living Infrastructure
A proposal to transform over 100 hectares of Mumbai's rail corridors into layered systems of housing, water management, and green mobility.
Expressways: Elevated Cycling Corridors That Stitch Cities Back Together
A multi-level transit network reclaims railway corridors for cyclists and pedestrians through continuous architectural infrastructure.
Encounters with the City: Transit Beyond Efficiency
Redefining transit through the public realm in BKC
Life Within 1 KM: A Walkable Microtown Planted in Moscow's Post-Industrial ZIL District
A 40-30-30 live-work-play masterplan that folds aquaponics, passive solar design, and shared workspaces into a single walkable kilometer.
AGORA Platform: Horizontal Infrastructure as a New Urban Stratum
An elevated, city-spanning platform reconnects fragmented neighborhoods through layered mobility corridors and suspended public space.
N.U.M.B: Nodal Urban Mechanism for Breathing
A new neighborhood system for a frozen city
VR Chic(k): Bamboo Arenas Under Bangkok's Highways Revive Cockfighting Through VR
A winning entry reimagines neglected highway underpasses as woven bamboo pavilions where Thai tradition meets virtual reality holograms.
