Urbanscape
Design and architecture projects exploring cities as dynamic systems, landscapes, and spaces for intervention and renewal.
Living the unplanned, Informal urbanism & place-making in Karachi.
The research concluded that informal urban activities are not obstacles to city development but essential contributors to Karachi's social and spatial identity. It demonstrated that top-down urban renewal and commercialization often fragment established urban ecologies by displacing informal communities without providing meaningful alternatives. The study advocates for a re-urbanism approach that recognizes and integrates everyday urban practices into future planning.
Urban design Portfolio | Spring 2026
The portfolio represents the culmination of a studio that began with an introduction to urban elements and the design of urban public spaces. The studio was founded on the premise that urban design is most effectively understood and articulated through the study and analysis of the built urban environment and its constituent elements. Structured as a series of three interconnected modules, first two showcasing case studies of urban elements and the third one, an effective design intervention.
CUBE(ish)
People are in a rush between their home and workplaces. They sometimes miss the opportunity to pause, look around and feel good. At this point in-between spaces (between home and workplace) in cities draw attention. Our concept is an in-between space which creates an escape point from daily rush.
The Commercial Ground Floor: Catalyst of an Unplanned Centrality . Jet Sakane, Agadir, Morocco
This Master's thesis in architecture examines how the commercial ground floors of collective housing blocks in the Jet Sakane neighbourhood of Agadir, Morocco, generate an unplanned urban centrality. Combining field observation, cartographic analysis, and user interviews, the research shows how appropriation practices exceed the conceived framework and transform standardised pavements into lived spaces of identity and sociability.
Baoyi Huang Landscape Architecture Portfolio
This portfolio explores how landscape design can create meaningful connections between people, nature and place. Through ecological restoration, urban transformation and inclusive public spaces, the projects investigate how landscapes can support resilient environments and enrich everyday experiences.
From Sociofugal Grids to Sociopetal grounds: Third places as tools for rehumanising the industrial landscape
From Sociofugal Grids to Sociopetal Grounds explores how industrial towns, shaped by rigid zoning and mechanised planning, often foster spatial alienation and social disconnection. Through theories of sociopetality, placemaking, and third places, it investigates how neglected urban spaces can be transformed into inclusive environments that nurture interaction, belonging, and collective life.
one can see great work with pure dedication while reading this thesis.👍🏻
Great Work
Great work🙌🏻
URBAN HAMMOCK
The Urban Hammock is a project of sustainable urban furniture.Both materials and structural solutions meet the highest requirements of the modern design direction of urban spaces. The furniture is versatile and adapted for a wide audience.The project defines a new form of idyllic relaxation in the city, combining elements of a bench, hammock and flower pot.
The end of expansionary urban planning
The article shows that the future of urban planning lies in transforming existing spaces rather than expanding cities, in order to address ecological, economic, and territorial challenges.
Continuity Through Change: Guiding Socio-Spatial Transformation to Reinforce Cultural Memory, Identity, and Everyday Urban Life in Mysuru
This thesis explores Mysuru’s historic core as a living urban environment shaped by people, culture, memory, and everyday practices. Through socio-spatial analysis, mapping, and experiential studies, the research examines how urban transformation affects the identity and character of historic areas. The project proposes context-sensitive strategies to guide change while strengthening cultural continuity, community relationships, and the everyday urban experience.
Ecotopia in San Nicolas Valley
The San Nicolás Valley in eastern Antioquia, Colombia, faces ecological degradation. This project integrates elevated housing, silos, and vertical farming to restore harmony between urban growth and nature, fostering regenerative development.
URBAN ZEN FITNESS
Urban Zen Fitness is a holistic wellness-oriented urban fitness center designed around the philosophy of Yin and Yang, symbolizing the balance between activity and stillness. Located at the suburban edge of Manchester, the project responds to its dual context—dense residential fabric on one side and open green landscape on the other—by acting as a transitional interface between the built and natural environment.
City Fields_Wrapped Up
General idea is based on immersion of the landscape principles into an urban context. This act would create new links in both morphological and functional way, becoming an attractive and productive sustainable ecosystem at the same time, combining fields, workshops, hubs public space and markets into one.
CHROMASCAPE
"Chromascape" is an enchanting urban installation, evoking nostalgia with its kaleidoscope-inspired semi-cylindrical dome adorned in vibrant and colorful panels. The installation modernizes urban landscapes by intertwining art, tech, and nature, countering excessive screen use, and encouraging community interaction.
Amazing work by the team! Lovely aesthetics and concept 👍🏼
Very creative and radical thought process with a clear presentation.
Expressive Design! Keep up the good work!
prOpencity: Where the Common Man Presides
‘(pr)OpenCity’ advocates a collaborative design method for future development: one that allows rapid application with its prototypical nature and an inclusive approach with mediation between the ‘user’ and the ‘urban’. Building upon the concepts of ‘open-sourcing’ in design, this experiment establishes a user-centric design approach to design the densifying
Urban Wilderness
Our team reinvented the modern neighborhood serving the lifestyles of today while addressing the issue of the pandemic. We decided to study the past in order to intuitively inform future design decisions. We began with an analysis of New York City as well as our chosen site of Hudson Yards.
Every city could swap some of its concrete jungle for some natural wilderness. Hope to see these ideas in future projects!
Deniz özdemir
We value the study of the conection with the city and the different levels of the void in wich we are working.
A very sensitive solution that keeps the site universally accessible.