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Urban Fabric: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Urban fabric explores how designers and architects reconfigure the built environment to support contemporary living patterns. Projects range from retrofitting existing structures and integrating green infrastructure to creating social housing and adaptive community spaces within dense urban contexts.

The community examines strategies for embedding resilience, food systems, and social gathering into city blocks. Work includes retrofitting industrial sites, carving public courtyards from constrained plots, weaving housing into existing neighborhoods, and designing furniture and spaces that activate urban areas for diverse users.

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Inderpreet and 2 others

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Resilient CP- 2.0

The Resilient CP 2.0 will act as a prototype, transforming the city, the country and eventually galvanizing the whole world. New CP, is superior and resilient, drives a stiring insurgent present situation, throughout the world. Providing open spaces, keeping humanity and culture alive; furnishing street with lively activities, social life and health.

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.

Amelia and daniel

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Farm/House, A Hustle Hub for Young Hustler

Farm/House is a new housing strategy that combines housing with urban farming. Here, a young hustler who doesn't have much money to rent a house at the city center can rent as they need. They can rent the initial minimum house unit that can be extended later. The unused housing space that they don't rent will work as urban farming. Simple and profitable!

劉家宏

NomadHouse - Under Construction

In response to this increasingly fast-paced contemporary era with increasingly blurred boundaries between home and work, we have been thinking about what is the most suitable way for digital nomads to live today. Through the design of vehicles as residential units, we hope to create a building with the ever-changing preferences.

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.

jgfrontado

Urban Retrofit The Collective and the Individual

Architectural competition

mykolas and Antonio

1x1 Industrial Urban Furniture

1X1 is a modular urban furniture system designed to be adaptable and responsive to the situation. The birthplace of the system is Refshaleoen island in Copenhagen, which is proud of its industrial heritage and mixed-use facilities. The modular system is based on a 3D grid of 1x1 meter with vertical pipe structure working as a frame for the modules.

Ahmad and 3 others

Un Nouveau Soleil

Un Nouveau Soleil is an approach to reclaim the abandoned railways in Paris through the approach of placemaking by encouraging citizens of Paris to reclaim the public space through empowering them to go and explore the unlimited possibilities of occupying the space in a way that benefit both of them and the communities surrounding these places.

Anastasia

XL CONTEXT HUB

The idea for the building is the urban fabric are retained and shifted vertically into a new three-dimensional urban organizational grid., becoming the new framework. The structure we have visual and circulatory freedom and sunlight to reach deep into the buildings.

Shao

Instant City

In the premise of Instant city first proposed by Archigram, we designed a series of mobility architecture that only exists as an incident in time and in space. It becomes an information network, education, entertainment and facilities for a community in lieu of fixed cultural center.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

Common Practice and Studio AAAN Carve a Hidden Courtyard World into Amsterdam's Narrowest Plot

Sixty-four mid-rent apartments on Oostenburgereiland turn a sliver beside a parking garage into a layered urban interior.

Urban Jungle

Urban Void

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog6 months ago

MAKER Architecten Weaves Social Housing into Kortrijk's Dense Urban Fabric with Brick and Restraint

A social housing infill in Kortrijk, Belgium, negotiates between existing rooftops, rail corridors, and neighborhood memory with quiet force.

Urban Renewal

Social Housing

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Floors of Culture: Stacking Public Terraces to Rebuild the City's Social Ground

Ela Szymańska's hybrid of building and public space lifts the urban ground into open terraces for working, learning, making and gathering together.

Cultural Architecture

Community Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedReview1 week ago

Urban Criss: A Modular Bench System That Turns Public Seating Into Urban Landscape

A runner-up at Urbanscape 2018, Urban Criss bends plywood and steel into modular seats scaled for solitude, couples and groups in shared public space.

Urban Furniture

Modular Furniture