Urban Organism
Exploring cities as living systems where architecture, food, nature, and infrastructure interact as interconnected organisms.
Customized Instant City Module Operating System: A Second, Movable City Above Barcelona's Eixample
A post-metabolist plan for Barcelona's Eixample inserts a mobile lattice of modules into the air, rooftops and courtyards rather than razing the grid.
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.
Productive Organism: A Mumbai Thesis That Treats Peripheral Housing as a Tool for Ecological Repair
Amod Nargund's thesis for Marve, Malvani layers mangrove ecology, adaptive housing and water cycles into a habitat that works like a living organism.
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.
Meta - Bin
The city and its associated infrastructure are not static, they are a dynamic process like biological metabolism.
Urban Oasis, New York City
Located 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.
Parasitic architecture, simulating future developments of our cities
Parasitic Architecture - Result Story Not all parasites are predators.
