Urban Infrastructure
Design and planning approaches that shape cities through infrastructure, connectivity, and integration with natural and social systems.
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.
The Line: A Bridge That Unmoors Its Own Park So Ships Can Pass
Olena Osadchuk extends two city streets across the water and docks a detachable catamaran park between them, turning a crossing into a civic landscape.
The Stitch: A Recycling Hybrid That Mends the Outer Ring Road's Cut Through Bengaluru
A linear hybrid spans the Outer Ring Road divide in Bengaluru, fusing plastic recycling, R&D and public decks into one civic spine.
Reflection on Public Interfaces: A Municipal Headquarters Recast as Shared Civic Ground in Hubballi
Shreya Mahabalshetti's thesis opens a closed municipal compound to the city, pairing reused colonial blocks with porous new civic volumes.
Restructuring Dwarka MRTS Station Precincts: Turning Residual Metro Land into a Civic Gateway
A layered public realm of plazas, elevated decks, subways and parks stitches Dwarka's fragmented metro corridor back into everyday pedestrian life.
Highway Urban Box: A House-Shaped Waiting Room for the City's Forgotten Highway Edges
A replicable, colour-coded house archetype claims highway shoulders and residual voids as public waiting spaces for emergencies and everyday pauses.
Aniene River Blue-Green Infrastructure: Turning Rome's Flood Risk into Public Landscape
A 650-hectare landscape strategy along Rome's Aniene River transforms flood events into ecological corridors, retention basins, and civic space.
Metro Wind Pavilion: Transforming Urban Infrastructure Through Color and Connection
Colorful aluminum facades transform Shenzhen metro ventilation pavilions into vibrant urban landmarks connected by grille corridors, celebrating infrastructure as public art.
URBANSCAPE: Symbiosis Turns Guwahati's Street Furniture into Flood Infrastructure
Bamboo bus stops, parklets, and modular benches work as ecological micro-systems to absorb monsoon runoff along Rajgarh Road, Guwahati.
A City Knit & Fit: Turning Mumbai's Railways into Living Infrastructure
A proposal to transform over 100 hectares of Mumbai's rail corridors into layered systems of housing, water management, and green mobility.
Expressways: Elevated Cycling Corridors That Stitch Cities Back Together
A multi-level transit network reclaims railway corridors for cyclists and pedestrians through continuous architectural infrastructure.
Hume World: Turning Drainage Pipes into Modular Urban Infrastructure
A kit-of-parts system repurposes hume pipes and recycled metal sheets into bus stops, seating, planters, and public promenades for Indian cities.
