Urban Layers
Exploring how cities function through interconnected systems of food, housing, ecology, and community within dense urban environments.
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.
