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Urban Environment: Projects, Journals & Ideas

48 Projects 42 Journals 15 Publications 6 Competitions

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Urban Environment covers how designers and architects approach the challenges and opportunities of city living. The topic encompasses sustainable development, green infrastructure, food systems, and the integration of natural elements into built spaces.

Community members explore projects ranging from pocket forests and productive urban habitats to living facades and architecture that dissolves boundaries between buildings and their natural surroundings. Work addresses urban renewal, ecological design, and creating livable cities through innovative spatial and material strategies.

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Sehr and Anita

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Fore^t De Poche

Creating an oxygen chamber using elements from nature, and creating a micro-climate within, along with raising awareness regarding pollution are the main objectives of this natural walkway. The installation is a self-sufficient module, that produces its own electricity, and focuses on highlighting sensory experience within the design.

Hùng and 2 others

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We are how we eat

Nowadays, cities are facing food-related problems which come from the separation between food producers and consumers as well as urban areas and countryside. The New Covent Market located in the Nine Elms District in London is a perfect chance to blur the separation and bring a new sustainable lifestyle to the citizens.

Karan

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Mission V.E.N.T.

Delhi was destined to suffocate with it's elevated pollution levels. Mission V.E.N.T. envisions New Delhi to regain it?s pure air and celebrate it's existence, through micro rewrites that employ air as a resource to evolve the public realm. Come take a peek into a designer's sketch pad that has resurfaced in 2100 . . .

Gandhali

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ECO CITY:CENTER OF POWER

By next century the world population will grow from 7.7 billion in 2019 to 10.8 billion in 2080 and bring in more revelations for its sustenance. World is moving from microprocessors to super computers to wireless technology of drones. With the increase in population we are converting more and more agricultural land into a liveable enclosed space. Social med

Marina and 2 others

City Fields_Wrapped Up

General idea is based on immersion of the landscape principles into an urban context. This act would create new links in both morphological and functional way, becoming an attractive and productive sustainable ecosystem at the same time, combining fields, workshops, hubs public space and markets into one.

Yana and Elis

GREEN MILL

The concept of is based on the classical theory of sustainable development, as a result, we get an agrocluster which in the structure of the city forms a stable attitude and understanding of the citizens of the full cycle of agricultural production and thus gives it the potential to maintain self-sufficiency and a healthy lifestyle.

Solange

EMERGE

In modern cities there is a lack of importance towards the individuals, their mental health, and their well-beings. EMERGE aims to reverse this reality. The project intends to make nature emerge from the concrete. It proposes an architecture that houses chaos, nature and life.

YIHAN and 2 others

VAGARIES OF LIFE

The 'Parasite and Host' relationship between an inserted urban sanctuary and a typical public housing 'podium + tower block' typology in Singapore. A tropical urban living room providing urban fabric of life that favors interaction in the community, which enables deep dive into collective community values, emotion and spirit of life.

ahmed and 2 others

Urban exchange food

The urban concept propose a daily feeding program from citizen to citizen. We propose a new urban culture based on sustainable development and self-sufficiency and a project that affirms the feeling of citizenship. The project is rethinking the fence of houses by introducing a mecanism for exchange of fresh produce.

Mateo and 2 others

Urban Wilderness

Our team reinvented the modern neighborhood to serve the lifestyles of today while addressing the issue of the pandemic. Our project highlights the benefits of nature as a model for cities and proposes a design that will create self-sustaining communities that better the lives of those that use it.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

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.

Urban Garden

Urban Jungle

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

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.

Urban Ecosystem

Urban Energy

UNI Editorial

publishedReview1 week ago

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.

Sustainable Urbanism

Urban Ecosystem

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

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 Garden

Urban Landscape