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Urban Layers: Projects, Journals & Ideas

59 Projects 51 Journals 36 Publications 4 Competitions

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Urban Layers examines the complex relationships between different systems operating within cities. The topic considers how architecture and design can address food production, social housing, ecological resilience, and community infrastructure as integrated parts of urban metabolism.

The community explores projects that reveal hidden potentials in urban sites, from vertical farming and closed-loop food systems to adaptive reuse and densification strategies. Work here demonstrates how designers intervene in existing urban fabrics to create multifunctional spaces that serve ecological, social, and economic functions simultaneously.

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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!

roberta and Veronica

OUR INFINITE CONSEQUENCE

This project seeks to promote a space for reflection on our scale and our role in the collective space. An experience where visitors see themselves in infinity in order to perceive their place, their actions and therefore their consequences. The space only exists in our presence, that is, it exists only because of our presence.

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.

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.

Katarzyna and Petter

Toolset for a City's Metabolism

We call for embracing voids within urban tissue, not necessarily meaning these should be neglected in planning but rather open for spontaneity. As a spatial tool we propose a structure that can grow and shrink according to the needs and engagement of its creators - the locals. Constructed out of simple scaffolding elements it is fully reusable.

Fran

Life Within 1 Km : A Microtown in Megacity

Nowadays, technology and modernism have caused the endless urban sprawl. Workers have to spend 1/8 of their day to commute, which has caused people's lack of belonging to their hometown. By combining living ,working and recreation within a reachable living sphere, we provide an opportunity for young immigrants and local neighbors to live together.

Durdija and Ivan

SPEAKERS’ CORNER NEWSPAPER

The proposed idea involves establishing an underground newspaper production within the confines of Hyde Park in London, with a specific emphasis on traditional printing methods such as woodcuts, linocuts, and engravings.

Mateo and 2 others

Urban Wilderness

Our team reinvented the modern neighborhood to serve the lifestyles of today while addressing the issue of the pandemic. Our project highlights the benefits of nature as a model for cities and proposes a design that will create self-sustaining communities that better the lives of those that use it.

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