Urban Development
Projects exploring how cities evolve through architecture, infrastructure, and sustainable design interventions.
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.
Coral Reef for Improving Lifestyle: Micro Housing Modeled on Marine Ecosystems
A modular plug-in housing system draws on coral reef logic to cluster compact dwellings, green corridors, and communal spaces in Dhaka.
Monsoon: Dynamic Social Infrastructure on the Edge of Taipei
A modular housing concept weaves vertical farms, shared flexible spaces, and timber construction into Taipei's underused urban periphery.
Urban Prop: A Spiral Tower of Modular Homes Rising Above the Urban Fog
Vertical urbanism meets green architecture in a spherical tower of customizable living units designed for young urban professionals.
Block Connected: A Residential Complex Built on the Logic of Bricklaying
Stacking living units like bricks and binding them with public space to create a mixed-use urban community along the waterfront.
Living Affinity: A Grid, a Colonnade, a Garden
A co-living complex built from a 12m square grid where arched colonnades, cluster gardens, and a residential tower create a replicable neighbourhood.
Automatic City: Vertical Urbanism for the Sahara
A tower city for one million people on a 2.5-mile footprint, built from sand and bacteria, moved by automated elevators, cooled by double-skin facades.
Awakening the Proletariat: Rethinking Urban Slums Through Inclusive Architecture
From Margins to Society: Redefining Urban Spaces for Unity and Empowerment.
C.S.N. Bus Port: An Aurangabad Bus Terminal Recast as a Civic Room for Tourism, Trade and Community
A shortlisted UnIATA '24 entry fuses a bus terminal with a tourist centre, using a red perforated volume and a tree-filled atrium to anchor civic life.
