Urban Community
Design and architecture projects that integrate community spaces, social housing, and shared resources into urban environments.
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.
Common Practice and Studio AAAN Carve a Hidden Courtyard World into Amsterdam's Narrowest Plot
Sixty-four mid-rent apartments on Oostenburgereiland turn a sliver beside a parking garage into a layered urban interior.
MAKER Architecten Weaves Social Housing into Kortrijk's Dense Urban Fabric with Brick and Restraint
A social housing infill in Kortrijk, Belgium, negotiates between existing rooftops, rail corridors, and neighborhood memory with quiet force.
Productive Organism: A Mumbai Thesis That Treats Peripheral Housing as a Tool for Ecological Repair
Amod Nargund's thesis for Marve, Malvani layers mangrove ecology, adaptive housing and water cycles into a habitat that works like a living organism.
Urban Agricultural Community: A Housing Thesis That Puts the Farm Inside the Neighbourhood
Aazil Abdul Jamal's B.Arch thesis threads vertical farms, community plots and production space through housing, making food security a design parameter.
Hustle Hub Moscow: Skybridges and Shared Living in a Three-Tower Cohousing Complex
A vertically integrated cohousing and commercial ecosystem where elevated connectors turn circulation into social infrastructure.
DOM KOMMUNA: Modular Frames for a Community That Grows With Its Residents
A scalable system of rental units, communal platforms, and super-common zones arranged in a spiraling growth pattern for collective living.
MICROSS: Co-Living as a Living Organism in the Urban Grid
Sasha Shilkin and Davit Antonyan design a co-living complex where branching courtyards and layered workspaces mimic the neural pathways of a collective bra
Interconnected: Centralized Hubs for a Post-War Automated Society
A speculative urban typology merges automation zones, vertical housing, and hyper-loop transit into 24-hour community hubs after societal collapse.
Co-owning Urban Farm Community: Shared Agriculture as Urban Infrastructure
Viktoriia Slynchuk proposes a modular framework where co-owned aquaponics farms, social housing, and cultural pavilions merge into one civic ecosystem.
Urban Seed: Rooting Cities in Ecological Balance Through Agricultural Infrastructure
A conceptual framework that treats farms as urban roots, markets as branches, and open spaces as the canopy where communities gather and thrive.
Urban Fun Farm: Merging Agriculture, Education, and Leisure in a Mega-City Hub
A shortlisted competition entry proposes a multi-functional waterfront complex where indoor farming, workshops, and public life coexist under one roof.