Urban Intervention
Temporary and permanent design interventions that reshape urban spaces and public life.
Customized Instant City Module Operating System: A Second, Movable City Above Barcelona's Eixample
A post-metabolist plan for Barcelona's Eixample inserts a mobile lattice of modules into the air, rooftops and courtyards rather than razing the grid.
Instant City: Archigram's Roaming Metropolis Rebuilt as a Fleet of Unfolding Cultural Modules
A fleet of autonomous modules unfolds from compact transport forms into stages, markets and cinemas, turning plazas into temporary cultural venues.
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.
Vector: A Kit of Timber Rooms That Rides the Abandoned Petite Ceinture Railway in Paris
Recycled rail cargo bases carry up to thirteen timber modules along Paris's Petite Ceinture, turning train velocity into a reconfigurable promenade.
Recovering Through Incision: Surgical Urban Regeneration in São Paulo's Bela Vista
Strategic architectural incisions reconnect fragmented neighborhoods by transforming São Paulo's viaduct infrastructure into layered public landscapes.
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.
The Pin: Micro-Architecture for the City's Forgotten In-Between Spaces
A modular, beacon-like street installation transforms narrow urban voids into active nodes for rest, gathering, and connection.
Inhabiting the River Intervention by Erazo Pugliese
Inhabiting the River Intervention by Erazo Pugliese is a sustainable wooden installation in Logroño, activating riverfront space for social and ecological engagement.
City Umbrella: Turning Dead Infrastructure into Bioclimatic Public Space
Modular canopy installations reclaim neglected urban pockets beneath flyovers and along boundary walls, offering shade, comfort, and social life.
Bloc: Modular Urban Furniture That Reclaims the City's Forgotten Spaces
A cellulose-polymer kit of parts turns extra-wide sidewalks and parking buffers into seating, bike racks, and performance stages.
A Furniture That Approximates Cyclists and Pedestrians: Reclaiming Urban Leftovers
Modular aluminium and wood-plastic furniture turns neglected interstitial spaces into hubs for cycling, resting, and urban greenery in Brazilian cities.
Theatre Lane: Vertical Dwelling Carved from Sydney's Forgotten Alleyways
A multi-generational micro dwelling reclaims a narrow service lane in inner-city Sydney by building upward between existing party walls.
