Urban Organism
Exploring cities as living systems where architecture, food, nature, and infrastructure interact as interconnected organisms.
Customized Instant City Module Operating System: Sustainable Architecture for Adaptive Urban Renewal in Barcelona
A modular urban operating system reimagines Barcelona through adaptive, sustainable architecture that grows with changing city needs.
Urban MEAL mine - A7
Concept combines market, mass production, individual farming, community living and education. Enables city to grow its own vegetable and distribute. It is first step in creating network of mines providing such benefits globally Project uses generated pattern to solve multiple problems. - generated growth of units provide huge flexibility and adaptability
VTN Architects Wraps Their Own Ho Chi Minh City Studio in a Vertical Tropical Forest
A six-story office in Vietnam's Thu Duc district uses modular planters and passive cooling to achieve a 190 percent green ratio.
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.
CUSTOMIZED INSTANT CITY MODULE OPERATING SYSTEM
Urban renewal plan based on post-metabolism in the Eixample district, Barcelona, Spain (2020-2050)
Productive Organism: Sustainable Living Habitat in Urban Peripheries
Reimagining urban peripheries through sustainable urbanism, where ecology, housing, and infrastructure evolve together as a living system.
Fresh v2.0
The concept of the project is as changing the meaning of fresh, as the outcome of the system not only meets the food need of people but meets them with the freshly picked food. People involved in production process and they are a witness to growing plants. This system will re-code human behaviour to become aware of basic needs of life.
Entomomaniac: Architecture That Farms Insects Inside the City Block
A shortlisted thesis from UnIATA '18 embeds insect protein production into urban buildings, markets, and public space at metropolitan scale.
URBAN SEED
THE URBAN MEAL MINE OF THE CITY INFRASTRUCTURE THAT HAS A POTENTIAL OF BEING A THREAD THAT IS WOVEN THROUGH A COMMUNITY CREATING A RIGID AND ECOLOGICAL BACKBONE. IT PAVES A NEW WAY FOR CONNECTING NEIGHBOURHOODS, OPEN SPACES AND URBAN MARKETS IN SINGLE ?PLACE.
Meal Minder
The design of Urban Meal minder is such that the 75% of the users nutritional needs is grown by the urbane population and can be purchased at the different floor levels. The Design inspires the users to know better what constitutes a Balanced diet as a daily routine. The space get activated with cultural, social festivals related to agriculture.
Grobund - Insect Hotels & Urban Biotopes
Grobund is a new form of urban benches and elements of urban biotopic structures that will increase biodiversity in our cities. We want the future of urban furniture to enrich the built environment as well as the natural environment surrounding it. We want to transform urban spaces into green hearts, that can provide the whole city with a better climate.
Start point
We do not need to be professionals to make our lives better. Based on this saying, the system of urban meal mine have certain functions, but the list of them is not ever finished. We are the creators of our life and existence what provides us the opportunity to choose the right way.
Bio-modular Tiny Housing NY
A modular, sustainable using bioplastic material recycled from wastes, flexible, and temporary housing design is aimed, using optimum space for maximum comfort conditions, having natural light and ventilation, contextually compatible, and contributing physically and socially to its location in the vacant plot located in NYC.
Great work, its very important that they mentioned this bioplastic material
An idea that contributes to the design of flexible housing using bioplastic material. it's called creativity! great respect for the team.
Amazing project, fantastic idea👍🏻👍🏻 Congrats to the team!
Meta - Bin
The city and its associated infrastructure are not static, they are a dynamic process like biological metabolism.
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.
such a great work
fantastic project! super great!
very good job ! I like it very much !