0Water Slum: Beyond Normalized CitiesSlums are said to be among the least understood places on the planet, largely because they are also among the most complex. Beyond Normalized Cities proposes a project of projects; a hybrid between the existing and the possible.
6Urban Commons: Space beneath Transit InfrastructureThe 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.
0WinnerHARLEM USTOPIAHarlem Ustopia reimagines East Harlem’s future after forced displacement. From a demolished landscape, a synthetic network grows, reconnecting memory, public life, and housing through adaptive modular structures and autonomous technologies. A new community, regrown.
4People's Choice AwardThreaded CityThreaded City reimagines Harlem as a network of cultural, housing, mobility, and wellness ribbons. Inspired by jazz, the design fosters resilience, sustainability, and inclusivity, weaving together community life, nature, and innovation into a dynamic urban fabric.
0Fluid SyntaxAlphabet City sits low on the East River, making it vulnerable to rising tides and powerful storms that flood and divide the neighborhood. But the goal isn’t just to recover, it’s to rethink how a city lives with water. Through Fluid Syntax, the city becomes a living system where infrastructure learns from nature and adapts in real time.
2WinnerEcotopia in San Nicolas ValleyThe San Nicolás Valley in eastern Antioquia, Colombia, faces ecological degradation. This project integrates elevated housing, silos, and vertical farming to restore harmony between urban growth and nature, fostering regenerative development.
0Honorable MentionFluid SpacesSpace is consisting of multi-layers like transportation, working, living, and the Presence of every individual person. The project "Fluid Spaces" is an architectural response to all these dynamic interactions. In this project, space is created within self-optimizable fluid expanded in a 3d magnetic field based on the evaluation of all different layers.
20Editor's ChoiceSOCIAL_PATCHIt was to create vertically established community that would reduce the segregation of high-rise buildings by providing the flexibility to repeat the habitual life without interrupting it. Design centered on social and cultural sustainability.
5Institutional Excellence AwardThe Digital AnthropoceneThis project develops a way for a discourse that investigates on the possibilities of integrating machine Intelligence and human coordination to produce a multiverse hybrid vertical community of artists and communal spaces.The goal is to create a digital archive of the Chicago’s biodiversity in order to preserve what little it has left.
7Urban OasisLocated in New York City, Urban Oasis is a micro-world that offers a natural and healthy living environment, which is an active part of the city, while also able to function in itself in case of a pandemic.
8NEW DENCITIESCOVID-19 has taken all of humanity by surprise. But this event forced us to rethink the vector of urban development The concept was developed during a widespread lockdown, movement restrictions, an increase in remote work or study. Citizens are now spending less time on urban mobility. There is a general trend towards more local life in the same neighborhood
