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Urban Heat Island: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Urban heat island effect occurs when cities experience significantly higher temperatures than surrounding rural areas due to reduced vegetation, increased hard surfaces, and concentrated human activity. Designers and architects address this challenge through material choices, vegetation integration, and spatial planning that improve thermal performance and livability in dense environments.

The community explores cooling strategies including green facades and living surfaces, courtyard designs that create microclimates, material selection for thermal regulation, and integration of natural elements into urban and residential projects across varied climates and contexts.

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Elif Leblebici1 work

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Elif

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Nomad House

This proposal also serves as a critique to the current working environments. It is a hybrid housing and working model that allows renewal and flexibility to take place not only at the macro scale but also at the micro and meso scale. This model discusses how the technology, people and nature will interact in the future.

Piet

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Hexagon City

Hexagon City challenges the norm by using materials at hand at the building side, by making optimal use of the land and by applying low-tech solutions to supply the city with durable energy, water, shade and cooling.Although it can be added we do not prefer high-tech solutions for their need of scarce raw materials.

mohammadreza

Aseman

Sky Residential Project in Theis Senegal At least 250 residential units have been considered for this project, and we faced many challenges in this process. The plan proposed for the plan includes one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom units, of which 100 are two-bedroom units, 75 are one-bedroom units, and are 75 three-bedroom units.

Marta

Coexistence - city in Daya Iriji

Saharan terrain has been created from complex relations between ground, wind, water and sun and to ensure safe habitance in the city we must not break the delicate balance. Building the new city in coexistence with nature is the core concept of the project.

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.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Ushijima Architects Floats a Charred Cedar House Above a Former Lakebed in Japan

Near Lake Biwa, a stilted residence channels the memory of floods and reeds into a house that hovers like an anchored boat.

Urban Heat Island

Residential Building

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

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

publishedStory5 months ago

Comfort Hub: Hexagonal Modules That Breathe Life into Guangzhou's Humid Urban Villages

A climate-responsive modular system uses humid air recycling and honeycomb geometry to transform neglected alleys into social micro-hubs.

Vertical City

Urban Design