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Urban Ecosystem

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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.

Kurt

Living Ledges

Adapting new systems for sustainable living by preserving the natural faculties we rely on.

Grace and Laura

Tidal Nexus

As the climate crisis intensifies, coastal cities such as New York City must evolve to protect their waterfront communities. This project utilizes The Battery as a case study to explore ways to not only protect the city from rising sea levels, but also support communities socially, economically, and environmentally.

Mia

Future Energy Metropolis in Hamburg, Germany

In this project scenario a part of the former harbor of Hamburg will be redeveloped into a sustainable city district. Within this district as much sustainable power as possible will be generated.

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.

Joshua and Jarrett

Toxic TerRAIN

Submission for the Architecture of the Apocalypse competition.

Chenlu and 2 others

Urban Oasis

The contradiction between the encroachment of urbanization and the increasing tension of agricultural land has also become the most prominent problem in the current stage of rapid urban development. We need an "urban agricultural landscape system", as a unique continuous "patch" type of urban green ecosystem-the "urban oasis".

Buket

ANAMNESIS: to the future

"A Sustainable Urban Prototype" The project explores environmentally sustainable opportunities in architecture by proposing new ways of urban living. Hence, the design becomes a self-sustaining prototype for future of the cities, reshaping both the ecology and the community of the area in terms of both environmental and social aspects.

Wen

Microwoodlands-Community areas and natural areas

A city needs greenery to increase the vitality of the city and improve its appearance. This is especially true in Buenos Aires. A place where people need to communicate with each other and a place where people can relax.

Ayushi and 2 others

SUICHI

Suichi is a city of futuristic ocean buildings made from 3D-printed plastic waste from the Pacific which extend 300 meters below the water's surface. The project imagines a series of dome marines that would sustain the crustacean form of life. This newly invented urbanization is entirely self sufficient and energy efficient.

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.