Urban Landscape
Design and architecture projects exploring cities, landscapes, and the relationship between urban environments and natural systems.
Beneath the Surface: An Amsterdam Hillside That Hides a Graffiti Sky Underneath
A grassy, bike-laced terrace on top, a mural-covered plaza below: Adam Vadas splits one building into Amsterdam's calm postcard and its loud metropolis.
prOpencity: Treating the Dense City as Open-Source Code That Its Citizens Can Edit
A collage-driven urban experiment that swaps the masterplan for a repeatable loop of listening, prototyping and revising with the people on the street.
Vari Architects Turns an Abandoned Show-Villa Island in Chengdu into a Lakeside Retail Village
On Luxe Lakes in Chengdu, a field of abandoned show villas becomes a loose cluster of shops, terraces and gray spaces that soften into the landscape.
ULTRA STUDIO Rescales Tokyo's Tiled Towers and Retaining Walls into a Terraced Apartment Block in Uehara
In Tokyo's sloping Uehara district, a 899 m² apartment block turns overlooked street habits, tile, plinths and hanging gardens, into architecture.
E PLUS DESIGN Stacks a Chongqing Shopping Complex into a Terraced Hillside Beside Green Heart Park
At LUXERIVERS in Chongqing, a 22,535 m² retail and art complex steps down toward Luxi Lake as planted terraces, open atriums and public stairs.
Natura Futura Turns a Vacant Babahoyo Lot into a Family Restaurant Built Around a Double-Height Vertical Garden
In Babahoyo, Ecuador, a 160 m² family restaurant of local wood, brick and river stone reactivates a vacant plot around a double-height planted courtyard.
prOpencity: Where the Common Man Presides
‘(pr)OpenCity’ advocates a collaborative design method for future development: one that allows rapid application with its prototypical nature and an inclusive approach with mediation between the ‘user’ and the ‘urban’. Building upon the concepts of ‘open-sourcing’ in design, this experiment establishes a user-centric design approach to design the densifying
Archiland Shapes a Sprawling New City Center for Tianjin Around the Promise of Vibrant Public Space
In Tianjin, Archiland frames a new urban center as a sprawling field of activity, testing whether large scale and everyday vibrancy can coexist.
Faces of the Soviet Avant-Garde: Turning Moscow's Street Names into an Open-Air Museum
A network of sculptural installations across a Moscow residential district transforms forgotten architect names into spatial encounters with cultural memor
Hudson Yards: A Green Ray and Vertical Ecosystem for Manhattan's Dense Future
A shortlisted New Dencities entry organizes towers, courtyards, and a continuous landscape axis into one interconnected urban framework.
The Forgotten Edges:Center for Khazan Ecology and Living traditions
This thesis proposes an adaptive socio-ecological infrastructure along Goa’s Khazan water edges to counter urban severance. By replacing rigid boundaries with dynamic spatial strategies, the design restores vulnerable edges into vibrant thresholds for community stewardship, biodiversity, and cultural identity—reconnecting regional ecosystems with local heritage and future resilience.
Extensions: Urban Life beneath Transit Infrastructure
The thesis looked upon transit infrastructure as an extension to its locality that continuously transforms; creating spaces for newer uses. These spaces have histories of how different people have used them as a spatial resource. The intent of the project is to build a local community resource and urban commons under flyovers; grounded in the life and practices situated in the locality.
Living the unplanned, Informal urbanism & place-making in Karachi.
The research concluded that informal urban activities are not obstacles to city development but essential contributors to Karachi's social and spatial identity. It demonstrated that top-down urban renewal and commercialization often fragment established urban ecologies by displacing informal communities without providing meaningful alternatives. The study advocates for a re-urbanism approach that recognizes and integrates everyday urban practices into future planning.
Urban design Portfolio | Spring 2026
The portfolio represents the culmination of a studio that began with an introduction to urban elements and the design of urban public spaces. The studio was founded on the premise that urban design is most effectively understood and articulated through the study and analysis of the built urban environment and its constituent elements. Structured as a series of three interconnected modules, first two showcasing case studies of urban elements and the third one, an effective design intervention.
Thresholds of Publicness: Rethinking Interstitial Spaces in Mumbai
Thresholds steps, plinths, verandahs are where public and private quietly meet. This research studies these in-between spaces as the living social fabric of Indian cities. As boundaries harden and land gets privatized, these porous edges are disappearing, taking everyday connection with them. Through observation and mapping, the study reads thresholds not as leftover space, but as sites of pause, exchange, and belonging. It argues that even a step or a strip of shade can hold a city together
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The in depth study of urban spaces and delicateness towards public is very promising and very nice.
Mayura Bhoir _ Undergraduate portfolio _
This portfolio is a curated collection of works from my five years in architecture school, each project marking a distinct phase of learning and growth shaped by curiosity, collaboration, and a continuous drive to refine my design thinking. Together, they trace not just academic exploration but the gradual emergence of a personal architectural voice. Alongside this, the portfolio includes work from my internship, offering a glimpse into how these academic foundations found expression in professi
good work😍
Getting into different typologies looks very interesting
Hello, How do I add a team member to this competition?
Hi Maurice, Teammates are added on your project, not on the competition itself. Your registration already covers the whole team, so nobody else needs to register or pay. Open your entry and start your project, then go to the Team page and click Add Member. Search by username, or type an email address and the dialog switches to an email invite. Roles and permission level are up to you. They get a link to accept, and until they do they show on the team card as invited. Full walkthrough: https://uni.xyz/help/projects/how-to-invite-team-members-to-your-project-on-uni Team limit for the competition is upto 4 Members. Team UNI
What’s the prizes?
Good question. Concave is a dynamic competition, so the awards grow as more designers enter, and the final prize set is fixed by the number of entries. The full breakdown for every round, including entry fees, is in the Awards & Fees section here: https://uni.xyz/competitions/concave/pricing/awards-fees. Registration is open until 30 October.