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38 Projects 75 Journals 13 Publications

About Discussions Projects38 Journals75 Publications13

Urban renewal encompasses the redesign and revitalization of existing urban areas, from individual buildings to entire neighborhoods. Designers working in this space address issues of density, public engagement, and social infrastructure while respecting existing urban fabric.

The community explores strategies including facade transformation and green integration, adaptive reuse of narrow or constrained sites, social housing integration into dense neighborhoods, and large-scale civic projects that balance renewal with public participation.

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UNI25 works

UNI Editorial17 works

Grace Holdsworth3 works

Amelia and daniel

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Farm/House, A Hustle Hub for Young Hustler

Farm/House is a new housing strategy that combines housing with urban farming. Here, a young hustler who doesn't have much money to rent a house at the city center can rent as they need. They can rent the initial minimum house unit that can be extended later. The unused housing space that they don't rent will work as urban farming. Simple and profitable!

Rogerio and 3 others

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Bend It

The more dense our urban environments become, the more valuable open and natural settings become. This struck me first when reviewing how the adjacent community has appropriated the abandoned train route to commune with nature and neighbors in ways that are informal, organic, creative, and productive.

Kuro

GARVEST

How to design space to attract teenager by bring idea from game and farm to be design and programming idea?

Tanya and 4 others

New urban unit

Every crisis is a shake up of a society. Architecture is also a social philosophy: Campanella's "City of the Sun", Howard's "Garden City", "Arcosanti" Soleri's. This project is an architectural fantasy on this topic. The basis is idea of human needs, from creativity in normal mode to survival in a crisis mode.

Ahmad and 3 others

Un Nouveau Soleil

Un Nouveau Soleil is an approach to reclaim the abandoned railways in Paris through the approach of placemaking by encouraging citizens of Paris to reclaim the public space through empowering them to go and explore the unlimited possibilities of occupying the space in a way that benefit both of them and the communities surrounding these places.

U+ CHARGE: MAKE URBAN SPACE ALIVE

?U+Charge? is a set of urban furniture module designed for public squares in Boston area which provides people with reconfigurable street benches equipped with solar charge stations.

UNI Editorial

publishedResults3 weeks ago

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.

Modular Housing

Urban Renewal

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

Common Practice and Studio AAAN Carve a Hidden Courtyard World into Amsterdam's Narrowest Plot

Sixty-four mid-rent apartments on Oostenburgereiland turn a sliver beside a parking garage into a layered urban interior.

Urban Jungle

Urban Void

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog6 months ago

MAKER Architecten Weaves Social Housing into Kortrijk's Dense Urban Fabric with Brick and Restraint

A social housing infill in Kortrijk, Belgium, negotiates between existing rooftops, rail corridors, and neighborhood memory with quiet force.

Urban Renewal

Social Housing

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog6 months ago

Shanghai New Horizon High Land Park and Civic Center: Urban Renewal Meets Public Engagement

Shanghai’s New Horizon High Land Park transforms an abandoned railway site into a vibrant civic center with rooftop park, public paths, and cultural integration.

Urban Park

Urban Renewal