Urban Ecosystem
Design approaches that integrate natural systems, food production, and community spaces into urban environments.
Loizou Architects and Associates Replace the Facade with a Living Green Shell in Limassol
A 360-square-meter mixed-use building in a dense Cypriot neighborhood trades its outer wall for a vertical garden of climbing vines and local plants.
Snøhetta and Santer Vanhoof Plant an Energy-Positive Timber Landmark on Dunkirk's Industrial Waterfront
Ecosystème D turns a former port site in northern France into a bioclimatic hub for energy transition, producing more power than it consumes.
MINOR lab Stitches Three Leftover Spaces into a Community Art Ecosystem in Langfang
A café, gallery, and artist studio carved from residential surplus in a Hebei housing development prove small-scale renewal works.
Teitakusubako and Yusuke Igarashi Architects Dissolve a House into the Forest Edge in Zushi
A 215 m² residence on a generous Tokyo-suburban plot uses stone, timber, and fragmented volumes to blur the line between dwelling and woodland.
Atlantis 2023: Vertical Farm Towers That Turn a City's Waste Into Its Own Food Supply
Jakub Sokólski proposes a network of timber farming towers where organic waste, water and energy circulate in a closed loop inside the dense city.
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 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.
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.
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.
Urban Oasis: A Solar-Powered Rubik's Cube That Wants to Fix City Streets
A self-charging modular kiosk draws from the Rubik's Cube to pack seating, water purification, and digital services into one compact urban unit.
Urban Forest: A Vertical Ecosystem for 5,000 Workers in Singapore's Changi Business Park
Radially stacked pods and layered green decks turn a 7-acre plot into 47 acres of ecological workspace projected for 2040.
Urban Meal Mine: A Tri-Axial Grid for Growing Food in Nine Elms
A modular farming infrastructure in London negotiates the tension between urban order and ecological liberty to feed a neighbourhood.
