What content can I find in Urban Morphology?

The Urban Morphology topic on uni.xyz features projects, journals, publications, and competitions from designers worldwide. Browse curated content to discover creative work and inspiration in this field.

How do I follow topics on UNI?

To follow a topic on uni.xyz, visit the topic page and click the "Follow" button. You'll receive updates when new projects, journals, or competitions are added to topics you follow.

Can I suggest a new topic?

UNI topics are curated by our editorial team. If you believe a design discipline or subject is missing, you can reach out through our contact page with your suggestion.

How can I contribute to Urban Morphology?

Create projects and journals tagged with Urban Morphology to contribute to this topic. Your work will appear in the topic feed for others to discover and engage with.

Urban Morphology: Projects, Journals & Ideas

59 Projects 53 Journals 39 Publications 2 Competitions

About Discussions Projects59 Journals53 Publications39 Competitions2

Urban morphology examines the physical structure and spatial organization of cities. It investigates how urban forms develop over time and how design interventions can reshape the relationship between built environments, natural systems, and human activity.

The community explores modular city frameworks, vertical integration of food systems, productive landscapes that blur boundaries between architecture and nature, and strategies for restructuring urban peripheries through sustainable design. Work ranges from theoretical models of urban growth to site-specific interventions that dissolve conventional distinctions between city and landscape.

Top contributors

UNI25 works

UNI Editorial10 works

Mateo Mantilla3 works

Amy Aguirre3 works

Keerat Kaur Gill3 works

Dorottya Bakos2 works

Мария Бережная2 works

Chenlu Yang2 works

Add your Urban Morphology projectPublish your work on uni.xyz and it appears in this topic for everyone exploring it.Publish a project

211

MIGHT[Y] SPACES

Multi-scalar Adaptive Design methodology for Rio's Growth. The density-organising strategy of this project addresses Rio's uneven growth. Ranging from architectural to city scale we call these - 'Mighty spaces'.While the project does not propose a prescriptive model towards a finished product, it aims at preventing unevenness within developing cities.

Sena and 2 others

196

Straggler

In the future, there will be stragglers due to the rapid development of technology. The main idea of this project is to create a second chance for the society that the system is trying to remove. This design serves to stragglers to hold on to time by continuing to live their current consciousness.

Beatrix

157

Besahapio - the modul city

The City of Besahpio should become a destination for people from all over the world. Inspired by climatic solutions of traditional cities (transformed by modern material and new means of transport) it will become a lively and sustainable city in a harsh surrounding.

Shaurya

141

(pr)OpenCity

‘(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 built interiors.

Piet

141

Hexagon City

Hexagon City challenges the norm by using materials at hand at the building side, by making optimal use of the land and by applying low-tech solutions to supply the city with durable energy, water, shade and cooling.Although it can be added we do not prefer high-tech solutions for their need of scarce raw materials.

Valentina and 2 others

140

Urban Creeper

Above all, the project seeks to offer the population a democratic right to use the open space, enjoy the landscape, reconnect with nature and strengthen the community's social fabric, which in the view of the authors is the recipe for a better world.

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.

Revathi and Pallavi

Entangled

Between the mountains by Zaha Hadid, Daniel Lieskind & Bjarke Ingels comes the entangled valley exclusively for the creative minds to envision their creative spaces. A valley that overlooks the ancient city to the modern city. A valley built for the creative minds at affordable price tags with spaces created with recycled materials at the guild of ambience.

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.

Shao

Instant City

In the premise of Instant city first proposed by Archigram, we designed a series of mobility architecture that only exists as an incident in time and in space. It becomes an information network, education, entertainment and facilities for a community in lieu of fixed cultural center.

Write about Urban MorphologyShare a building study, a review or an essay, and it appears in this topic's journals.Write a journal

UNI Editorial

publishedResults3 weeks ago

Manzana Morphosis: Stretching Barcelona's Grid into a Living Landscape for 2050

A radical reworking of the Eixample manzana turns density into a tool for generous public space, vertical ecology, and environmental performance.

Urban Morphology

Space Urbanism

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

Teitakusubako and Yusuke Igarashi Architects Dissolve a House into the Forest Edge in Zushi

A 215 m² residence on a generous Tokyo-suburban plot uses stone, timber, and fragmented volumes to blur the line between dwelling and woodland.

Urban Ecosystem

Urban Energy

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Atlantis 2023: Vertical Farm Towers That Turn a City's Waste Into Its Own Food Supply

Jakub Sokólski proposes a network of timber farming towers where organic waste, water and energy circulate in a closed loop inside the dense city.

Vertical Farming

Urban Agriculture

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Terrain Anamorphosis: Erosion as a Design Tool for Regenerating Athens' Kifisos River

A proposal for Athens' Kifisos River that lets controlled water carve terraces, basins and fragments into the ground around an abandoned power station.

Landscape Design

Architecture