Urban Planning And Design
FLDDesign and planning strategies for cities, from infrastructure and public spaces to sustainable housing and community systems.
ULTRA STUDIO Rescales Tokyo's Tiled Towers and Retaining Walls into a Terraced Apartment Block in Uehara
In Tokyo's sloping Uehara district, a 899 m² apartment block turns overlooked street habits, tile, plinths and hanging gardens, into architecture.
HYPERBLOCK: A Catalogue of Strategies for Growing Barcelona Upward
Vicky Daroca's Editor's Choice entry layers nine flexible massing systems above Cerdà 's 133-metre grid without erasing the city beneath.
Urban Oasis: A Solar-Powered Rubik's Cube That Wants to Fix City Streets
A self-charging modular kiosk draws from the Rubik's Cube to pack seating, water purification, and digital services into one compact urban unit.
City Umbrella: Turning Dead Infrastructure into Bioclimatic Public Space
Modular canopy installations reclaim neglected urban pockets beneath flyovers and along boundary walls, offering shade, comfort, and social life.
VR Chic(k): Bamboo Arenas Under Bangkok's Highways Revive Cockfighting Through VR
A winning entry reimagines neglected highway underpasses as woven bamboo pavilions where Thai tradition meets virtual reality holograms.
Residual Spaces: Modular Housing That Reclaims the Leftover Geometry of Cities
A flexible housing system designed to occupy the overlooked voids created by road infrastructure in high-density urban environments.
Urban Prop: A Spiral Tower of Modular Homes Rising Above the Urban Fog
Vertical urbanism meets green architecture in a spherical tower of customizable living units designed for young urban professionals.
Warning! Experimentation Ahead: A Bauhaus-Inspired School Woven into the Urban Fabric
A red corrugated tower and bridge system transforms an urban block into a transdisciplinary school of experimentation and adaptive reuse.
Young City: Circular Canopies Reimagine Budapest's Public Ground
Three urban installations use slender columns and disc-shaped canopies to give pedestrians shelter, shade, and a reason to linger in Budapest's busiest dis
Mission V.E.N.T: Reimagining Delhi as a Breathable, Biodiverse Urban District
A speculative infrastructure of netted canopies, airquariums, and modular towers turns polluted neighborhoods into pure air districts.
THE URBAN ENSEMBLE
Building blocks for a better tomorrow
