Urban Environment
Design and architecture projects addressing cities, sustainability, and the relationship between built environments and nature.
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.
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.
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.
From Vibrancy to Vacancy: Addressing the Decline of Urban Structures
“When the ‘Heart’ weeps for what it has lost, The ‘Spirit’ laughs for what it has found”
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 Mill: Architecture as Ecosystem on the Thames
A London project integrates water harvesting, vertical farming, and solar energy within sawtooth-roofed volumes to reimagine urban resilience.
City Fields: Where Sloped Gardens and Market Halls Merge Agriculture into Urban Fabric
A layered architectural ecosystem of rooftop farms, aquaponic systems, and community markets that repositions the city as both producer and consumer.
Urban Fun Farm: Merging Agriculture, Education, and Leisure in a Mega-City Hub
A shortlisted competition entry proposes a multi-functional waterfront complex where indoor farming, workshops, and public life coexist under one roof.
Urban Green Museum: Turning a 350m Industrial Shell Into a Living Agricultural Exhibition
A shortlisted competition entry reimagines a massive rectangular industrial building as a hybrid of winter garden, market hall, and working farm.
