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Vertical City: Projects, Journals & Ideas

48 Projects 58 Journals 5 Publications 2 Competitions

About Discussions Projects48 Journals58 Publications5 Competitions2

Vertical City addresses the design challenges of building upward to accommodate growing urban populations. The topic encompasses architectural strategies for dense, multi-functional environments that integrate living, working, and food production within compact footprints.

Community members explore modular and adaptive approaches to vertical urbanism, including instant city frameworks, hexagonal planning systems, resilient infrastructure, and closed-loop food systems. Projects range from conceptual mobile city modules to specific urban renewal proposals and lifestyle complexes.

Top contributors

UNI25 works

UNI Editorial9 works

Tanya Prevezentseva4 works

Jaime Rios3 works

armin zanjanchian3 works

Mavis Huang2 works

Alessandro Cece2 works

Artyom Alimpiyev2 works

Hosted by UNI

Cogs in the City

Render competition to represent the city as a machine

Prize Pool:USD 7,000

Regular registration ends: 26 days left

Submission ends: December 1, 2026

Worldwide

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Elif

434

Nomad House

This proposal also serves as a critique to the current working environments. It is a hybrid housing and working model that allows renewal and flexibility to take place not only at the macro scale but also at the micro and meso scale. This model discusses how the technology, people and nature will interact in the future.

Inderpreet and 2 others

269

Resilient CP- 2.0

The Resilient CP 2.0 will act as a prototype, transforming the city, the country and eventually galvanizing the whole world. New CP, is superior and resilient, drives a stiring insurgent present situation, throughout the world. Providing open spaces, keeping humanity and culture alive; furnishing street with lively activities, social life and health.

Beatrix

157

Besahapio - the modul city

The City of Besahpio should become a destination for people from all over the world. Inspired by climatic solutions of traditional cities (transformed by modern material and new means of transport) it will become a lively and sustainable city in a harsh surrounding.

Darya and Екатерина

146

The CityGate

The CityGate is a new high building tipology. This is the stop of the ever-wandering nomads who populate the coliving and the permanent residence of groups of people or singles, the stop of ships and boats, drones and hyperloop, privat flying cars and airplanes. Planes flying to Moscow for the whole world can land on each floor of a skyscraper.

Piet

141

Hexagon City

Hexagon City challenges the norm by using materials at hand at the building side, by making optimal use of the land and by applying low-tech solutions to supply the city with durable energy, water, shade and cooling.Although it can be added we do not prefer high-tech solutions for their need of scarce raw materials.

Gandhali

130

ECO CITY:CENTER OF POWER

By next century the world population will grow from 7.7 billion in 2019 to 10.8 billion in 2080 and bring in more revelations for its sustenance. World is moving from microprocessors to super computers to wireless technology of drones. With the increase in population we are converting more and more agricultural land into a liveable enclosed space. Social med

Antonio and Phillip

104

Verzendaccommodatie

A student housing modular concept for the Amsterdam University College designed from 15 shipping containers arranged effectively.

Tanya

SMART CITY

The concept presented is to look at the construction of a single autonomous cell in an urban structure. The autonomous cluster "Smart City" contains all the necessary components of the urban space. The main quality of an autonomous cluster in a pandemic is the ability to isolate an entire cell with people, and not every person in their apartment.

Tanya and 2 others

01

The main idea of the project is binary system. The concept is based on the structure of binary code. There are only 0 and 1: 1 - filled structure (residential), 0 - void structure (non-residential). Thanks to the use of the algorithm, the concept uses combinations of modules that form a competent structure of the complex.

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.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults8 hours ago

Forest City Market: Khmer Fish Traps Woven into a Bamboo Market for Ho Chi Minh City

Anna Rader's market recalls Prey Nokor, the 'City Within a Forest,' with bamboo vaults over vendor stalls wrapped around a shaded courtyard.

Landscape Design

Commercial Buildings

UNI Editorial

publishedResults3 days ago

Smart City: An Autonomous Urban Cell That Quarantines a Neighborhood, Not an Apartment

Towers, a rolling green roof and a domed hospital ward form a self-sufficient urban cell built to keep daily life running when the city locks down.

Public Building

Housing

UNI Editorial

publishedResults3 weeks ago

Container City: Keeping the Tower Crane On Site as the Building's Permanent Spine

A stack of reused shipping containers grows and shrinks around the crane that built it, leaving the building's future deliberately unfinished.

Container City

Future City

UNI Editorial

publishedResults3 weeks ago

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.

Space Urbanism

Vertical City