Urban Planning
The planning, design, and development of urban spaces, neighborhoods, and cities at multiple scales.
An Urban Social Network: Urban Design for a Greener, More Connected Barcelona
An urban social network reimagines Barcelona’s superblocks with biophilic design, shared spaces, accessibility and stronger community lives.
HYPERBLOCK: Flexible Urban Design for Barcelona’s Future City
HYPERBLOCK reimagines Barcelona as flexible urban design, layering density, daylight, public space and adaptable housing above Cerdà’s grid.
Flower of the Desert
Choosing arid climate and Following bio mimicr design, we came to across a plant that lives in the Namibia desert, Welwitschia which is extremely sustainable in Arid areas and lives about 1000 to 1500 years. The unusual form of this plant keeps the soil under the plant cool and moist. The thick leaves lay on the sand surface and prevent wind erosion aswell.
SYNERGIZE: Urban Design Reimagining Barcelona’s Cerdà Blocks for 2050
SYNERGIZE reimagines Barcelona’s Cerdà blocks through urban design, connecting people, nature, mobility and adaptable public life for 2050+.
The Amber Palace Opera: A Geological Fiction Surfaces on Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
Pierre Brillard reimagines a Baltic legend as a public landscape, opera house, and waterfront promenade rooted in Tallinn's coastal identity.
RISE OF THE GAURS
I think the overall concept is really good. I would have liked to have seen the protest moments further developed in relation to the city. The idea of a kiosk and water harvesting are good but remain too cautious. What are the implications for the city? How is this maintained? What protects the right to protest and how is that spatialized?
ECOTent: Turning Shanghai's Balconies into a Living Agricultural Network
A modular retrofit system attaches greenhouse modules to existing residential balconies in Pudong, weaving food production and social life into the facade.
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.
Kalpa : Designing for the Afterlife of Olympic Events
Excellent research & a great design idea. Loved the work! :)
UnIADA '26
The Global Benchmark for Architecture Dissertation Awards
Urban Retrofit: Turning Mass Housing Facades into Fields of Individual Expression
A modular balcony framework grafted onto Venezuelan public housing lets residents reshape their own domestic edge, unit by unit.
Revitalizing Asadganj: Bridging Trade, Heritage & Future Horizons
Asadganj is one of Chattogram’s oldest and most significant trading districts and serves as Bangladesh’s largest wholesale market for shutki (dried fish). Alongside shutki, a wide range of commodities including rice, lentils, spices, and other essential goods are traded and distributed across Chattogram and the rest of the country. Historically, the district
Magnificent Work! Keep it up
Very thoughtful and interesting project!
Inspiring transformation, where heritage meets innovation. Great vision for sustainable urban revitalization..... <3
Hudson Yards: A Green Ray and Vertical Ecosystem for Manhattan's Dense Future
A shortlisted New Dencities entry organizes towers, courtyards, and a continuous landscape axis into one interconnected urban framework.
Barcelona in 2050: Recovering the Courtyard as Climate and Civic Infrastructure
A shortlisted Hyperblock entry reimagines Barcelona's Cerdà grid as a network of courtyards, water channels, and layered public spaces for 2050.
EREBUS
The Erebus project conceives the colonization of the asteroid belt by proposing the installation of a habitable orbital station called Erebus and a robotic surface settlement called Hades. The orbital station will be comprised of three toroidal spacecraft that will be relieved one at a time each year and a half, avoiding isolation.
Thu Thiem Banks Market: A Canal Carved into Public Life
Nicolas Eberle's winning Street City Vietnam entry transforms Ho Chi Minh City's waterfront into a layered marketplace woven around water.
GREEN GRID: Reconnecting Barcelona's Blocks Through a Continuous Public Landscape
A nine-block urban strategy that opens, terraces, and links Cerdà's courtyards into a climate-responsive green network across the city.
From Fragility to Resilience: An Integrated Approach to Coastal Settlement on Kutubdia Island
This thesis focuses on Kutubdia Island, where climate change is already causing severe land loss, displacement, and livelihood insecurity. Recognizing that relocation is not feasible for many residents, the study explores how architecture can support resilient, adaptive, and sustainable communities while preserving local livelihoods and social ties.
good idea and concept, mostly consistent would have liked to see a bit more of the idea in the materialization - for the rest solid and good idea and design
Great