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Urban Development

Projects exploring how cities evolve through architecture, infrastructure, and sustainable design interventions.

59 Projects 18 Publications 68 Journals

Sivasakthi

Urban Continuum: An alternative learning ecosystem

Urban Continuum transforms the city into a continuous learning environment. By dissolving the boundaries between campus and community, it creates an urban ecosystem where education emerges through everyday encounters, public participation, and shared experiences.

Keerat

Urban Commons: Space beneath Transit Infrastructure

The thesis looked upon transit infrastructure as an extension to its locality that continuously transforms; creating spaces for newer uses. These spaces have histories of how different people have used them as a spatial resource.

Juanes

Ecotopia in San Nicolas Valley

The San Nicolás Valley in eastern Antioquia, Colombia, faces ecological degradation. This project integrates elevated housing, silos, and vertical farming to restore harmony between urban growth and nature, fostering regenerative development.

Taorem

Blurring The Line:

Urban slums, having both the elasticity of slums and the staticity of urban structures tend to create a distinct line that divides them. This physically visible line is only a glimpse of the contrast between urban poor and city dwellers.

Vardhan

De-commodifying People

De-commodifying People: A Transgressive Approach to Social Housing in Mumbai. The project aims to explore the critical need to shift our perspective on housing from a commodity to a fundamental human right, especially in the context of Mumbai's social fabric.

armin and 3 others

The Wall

Our project proposes an alternative approach towards skyscrapers; we hope to uplift the city, especially the Karun river, and purify the air of Ahvaz. Our project has the potential to become an icon by creating a diverse way of living and a connection with older city icons. Housing, environment, and social interactions are the main focuses of our design.

Wen

POST PANDEMIC WORK

Vertical city and vertical living circle

Michele and Carlo

NYAC - New York Affordable City

Starting from the city’s goal to reach 300,000 affordable units by 2026, this thesis aims to investigate the process that makes the city un-affordable, through a design experience based on a multi-layered reading of the urban and social fabric of the city.

Michael

TURF - MANILA Student Housing

IN TERM OF GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND HIGH SKILLED PROFESSIONS IN ALMOST ALL SECTORS, ESPECIALLY THE TECHNICAL ONES, EDUCATION AND STUDIES ARE THE KEYS FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT AND BIGGEST CHANGES OF TECHNOLOGIES, ECONOMICS AN ECOLOGY. EDUCATION AND EFFICIENT STANDARDS ARE THE BASEMENT FOR SETTING THEM INTO REALITY.

Tuğçe

[UP]Town

Home is a space that can be personalized, its boundaries can be redrawn, and it’s personal, flexible and reproducible over time. For that reason, this project aims to offer everybody who feels homeless a space where they can create their own home.

Mario and 2 others

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MORPHOGENESIS

The intent of the scheme is to reconsider the outlook of post-pandemic architecture and the attributes of density, connectivity and isolation in an interconnected dynamic.

Dorottya and 2 others

Urban Oasis

Located in New York City, Urban Oasis is a micro-world that offers a natural and healthy living environment, which is an active part of the city, while also able to function in itself in case of a pandemic.