Off the Grid

Willem Hubrechts

Rethinking the relation between water management, urbanisation and the role of self-steering communities.

Empathy playground

ALT-TOPIA

Imagine a program for practicing empathy consciously in a city

Through the rooms into a diorama

COPA

Sustainable tourism accommodation for the edification in a territory with strong natural qualities.

RETURN TO THE ROOTS

Eylül Nejan SEYHAN

In the urban fabric, passive landscape solutions carry a great potential to reform and improve the urban infrastructure and enhance the public life.

Tourism Suburbia

Serina Kitazono, Kristin Laz

A network of collective infrastructure typologies for post-growth tourism

Modern Aviaries

Studiolow

Modern aviaries looks at open landfills through the lens of infrastructure in order to question the impact these human networks have on wildlife habits and behaviour

URBAN IMMUNOLOGIC SYSTEM

CMAM Laboratorio de Arquitectura

Flexible constructive system and responsive architecture for city planning with holistic health approach.

Challenging food insecurity and fragmented urbanism in informal settlements in the Global South

KNOW - Lima

Co-designing spaces to sustain care activities on food provision that emerged during the pandemic.

ARCHITECTURE OF LUST

Tautvydas Urbelis, Lukas Mykolaitis, Domantė Nalivaikaitė

Architecture of Lust gazes at lush geometries and invites to feel the swarming materiality of objects, movements and fantasies.

Non Voyage

Non Voyage

An emerging think-and-do tank that embraces the current moment of immobility as an opportunity to reimagine tourism's vast existing infrastructure as a resource for planetary healing.

Online Package Pick-up Point

Gustav Bergström

A market place where global consumption meets local trade

Living Infrastructure (Working Title)

Tracing Spaces

3-dimensional cartographies of traffic and social infrastructure as European backstage zones

Pico Utility Core

Oh Dot Zero

A centralized nerve center that connects an entire micro-home's utilities and communications by taking the principles of a micro-grid, and applying them more broadly across the utility and communication spectrum for housing units.

RURAL WATER STATION

Re-producir

Resilient network of community water infrastructures in the insular rurality of Chiloé

HARDTURMVIADUCT

Panta Rhei Collaborative

A documentary illustrating the urban condition generated by the Hardturm Viaduct in the district of Zürich-West.

Eurotopia

Maximilian Steverding

Reading infrastructure as a political re:presentator for enabling civic participation in a supranational world.

Inclusive Harvest

B. Think Tank

An open infrastructure to fight a legacy of inequality through community living & civic agriculture.

DEURBANIZATION LAB

Elena Malakhatka

This project aims to generate novel knowledge in the area of urban-rural human dynamics by proposing a new model of sustainable remote lifestyles from a socio-cultural and socio-technological perspectives.

Gyaan Ashray

Chaal.Chaal.Agency

This project is a knowledge shelter and community centre for the women of Behrampura.

Paani Lari

Chaal.Chaal.Agency

A movable water-filtering system that implements different forms of public-urban pedagogy.

Materia Prima

Materia Prima

Materia Prima is a collaborative atlas of the impact of extractivism in the Mexican landscape.

MAKING (SENSE)

Mina Kouvara

Experiments for the recuperation of common sense through the lens of sustainability in the making.

AN-10-A

State Of The Hearts

AN-10-A is a piece of oneiric infrastructure bounding the local territory to the augmented globe.

Mobile Quarantine

Sireal

An imaginary city investigating new ways of navigating public spaces in light of social distancing situations.

Orbital Imperialism

State Of The Hearts

A simulated private Space Company to speculate how this new market will change our understanding of terrestrial order

Dance is politics

á la sauvette

The project reclaims the appropriation of the public space through 'the party' and dancing as a social catalyzer during -and after- the pandemic, establishing a new paradigm in which technology, environment, and social encounter merge in a single reproducible architectural strategy.

The Movement Choir Guide

Soma-City

Workshops and resources for making visible the care of public spaces through Movement Choirs.

Co-machines Book

ON/OFF

Stuck somewhere between an anthology and a catalogue this book relocates the definition of architecture and its role in contemporary cities. With their origins in ON/OFF’s interdisciplinary design studio, the original co-machines were an attempt to explain, codify and investigate public space.

Of(f) the tracks: the legacy of colonial railway infrastructures

Maxwell Mutanda, Sunniva Viking, Tomà Berlanda

Fictional interventions on Harare’s railway yards that redress its paradigm of colonial divided city

SYNESTHESIA

Think Happy Everyday

Interactive and iterative, Synesthesia introduces urban city dwellers to the new perspective of public space : a feedback loop, a new conversation.

WEIRD ASSEMBLAGES

Afterbodies

‘Weird Assemblages’ explores groups of species and elements that form resilient relationships in the spaces of residue of our infrastructural systems— in the space between the alive and the animate, cohabiting amongst the dangerous, the dead, or the toxic.

Cautionary Colours of a Vulnerable Ecology

Afterbodies

How is colour used as an asset to exploit and appropriate the Tibetan landscape?

Global WarNing

Celia Gorostizu

A project that dreams about the possibilities and second chances of a future and not-so-utopic era without non-renovable resources. The dreaming of a new life for refineries, the citys of petroleum.

Tales of Trash

Lion RUST, Xavier WALTER

The projects deals with the symbiotic interdependance of large recycling facilities and public programs to garantee their inclusion in Manhattan’s dense urban fabric through existing infrastructures.

Green Agora

Spatial Anatomy

A pavilion sparking dialogue and action research on the future of food security and community space.

Floods safety card

entropía_arquitectura adaptativa

Risk management infrastructures for vulnerable settlements

BudaFCKNPest

Victor Pérez Sánchez

BudaFCKNPest is a space for reflection on the growth of our cities through their transportation hubs.

The Zone of Disassembly

Martin Kolev

Neither utopian nor dystopian, 'The Zone of Disassembly' is a surreal endeavour which exposes the sensibility of the e-waste polemic, and points towards the manifold possibilities veiled with ignorance.

DeSaturated

Space Saloon

DeSaturated addresses both the hydrological concentration of desert environments, and the systems which surround and influence actions necessary for environmental change.

PROT/MAD_[VN+CL+NN]_XX.X

Ismael Medina Manzano

PROT / MAD_ [VN + CL + NN] _XX.X is about giving a complete global response, from the transformation of the current logistics type, through the implementation strategy, to the location and redistribution of large peripheral logistics containers at localized points inserted in the urban fabric.

Guanying Community Transportation Planning

Zixin Zhan

Guanying Community Transportation Planning -- Based on Parking Improvement

Precollinear Park

Torino Stratosferica

Precollinear Park is a temporary placemaking intervention that has transformed the former tramway track in the pre-hill area of Turin into a park open to the community.

Sensing landscapes

Towards Atmospheric Care

We propose a co-learning workshop which collectively and critically examines urban sensing landscapes.

LIVABLE VIADUCTS

Adrian Kasperski Architekt

The concept is a non-profit work and was created to provoke a discussion of Krakow residents. The idea consists in conversion of bright blue acoustic screens in horizontal walls of greenery.

Reformulate a Giant

Estudio Bigspin

A counter scenario in response to the inconsistencies of our growth development management models.

Incontinent Object

Futurível

Above-ground pipes and simpoietic prototype communities to integrate natural cycles of food production, ecological demands and waste treatment

HYPERCITY Berlin-Hamburg, Germany

Imke Woelk, Dr. Ing. architect

Urban growth embedded in nature and linked to the development of existing mobility infrastructures.

Superinfrastructures.

Cristina Nan

Conceptual propositions for speculative spatial innovation of superinfrastructures within the urban & non-urban.

Online/On-site

EXTENTS

This project explores the effects of uneven internet service provision on urban development.

Bus Depots X Night Shelters

Architecture for Dialogue

A system of night shelters proposed within bus depots using parked buses as room units for the homeless in Delhi.

The Infrastructural Leap

In_Fra lab (Zeila TESORIERE , Bianca ANDALORO, C. ITALIANO, G. LUPO, S. ALES, F. C. ASTA, G. GERACI, R. GIALLOMBARDO, G. LA GUARDIA, L. LA MARTINA)

Envisioning the futurities of a multispecies, resilient, sustainable, restorative urban architecture

Ankanda case study

Atelier HOLCNEROVA

Retrospective project for Mini Hydro power plant adopted by architecture

Infra-Architecture Hybrids

Rafael Luna

Subway systems can become architectural mega-structures to organize the megalopolis.

Fábrica La Fábrica

Carlos Moles Romero

Three architectural typologies for different users coexist and conform an expansive system.

Subtle line of brutal change

Arhitektonski kolektiv

What will the presence of the pipeline do to the territories it traverses?

Urban Droneport

Saúl Ajuria Fernández

The project´s aim is to design a new infrastructure that allows the transport of goods with drones in urban areas.

Along Liquid Paths

Andrew Copolov

Exploring novel forms of spatial organisation through the design of a worker-owned container ship.

Africa ; Israel

Matan gal

The project examines the African-Israeli relations and responds to the neo-colonialism trend it expands over the “Black continent,” by establishing a railway infrastructure designed to leverage relations in a bi-directional and egalitarian manner.

Highway for cows

Index Studio

How will the ever expanding cities transform at the cost of the productive green space?

Hecate_The Affective City

studioentropia

Hecate is an urban infrastructural system and a visual thinking tool that maps the city's complexity and possible futures.

+ Pool

Playlab and Family

+ POOL is a water-filtering, floating swimming pool, that filters river water through the walls of the pool.

Pro_Linz Production Unlimited

esoes

It is a structure composed by different typologies of cells where inhabiting and working are merged.

The Water Runs Through Us

Katherine Ball and Ted Marino, in collaboration with Excellando film-design collective (Benoît Verjat and Alexis de Raphelis)

A mythic tale about Floating University that ruminates on our place in the water cycle and interweaves the Open Calls.

Wandering Volumes

Fred Erik

Automated vehicles as the structural base of an endlessly evolving city

'On the Move'

Janneke Derksen - strategic landscape designer.

A strategic design and research project that explores the highway by interventions as an investigation on it’s hidden qualities.

Pool is Cool

POOL IS COOL

The quest for the revival of outdoor swimming as an exemplary approach to tackle urban challenges.

From Frontiers to New Lands

Infra x Typos

Heading into a new era of space travelling, private companies develop more effective and reusable rockets. A new typology is necessary!

Urban Audio

Florian Tuercke

URBAN AUDIO is a sound-art project in public space that offers new perspectives on urban spaces.

Logium

Klemens Sitzmann

Logium is an absolute library, containing a copy of every book ever written in the history of humankind.

Africa ; Israel

Matan Gal

The project examines the African-Israeli relations and responds to the neo-colonialism trend it expands over the “Black continent,” by establishing a railway infrastructure designed to leverage relations in a bi-directional and egalitarian manner.

Artificial Islands in the Capitalocene

Victor Sardenberg

New modes of urbanization that produces its own grounds and urban-scale interiority.

Sensorial Space Prototype

Elena Agudo Sierra

Spatial devices that facilitate accessibility and understanding of the environment to people who do not have the five sense

|G|HOST STATIONS

Yullia Zalomaikina

Reshaping the future of buried legends

oto

oiio

Its architecture no longer operates as formation of buildings and streets. It is a cluster of catalysts to memories and emotions which inhabit our minds.

Emergency hybrid infrastructure

Matías Grimaldi

Temporal housing and facilities infrastructure with the possibility to be reused after the humanitarian crisis.

Institute for Autonomous Urbanism

Institute for Autonomous Urbanism

The disruptive developments of dispersed infrastructure frames a moment in time where we can fundamentally reconceive of how we make, fund, and even conceptualize the world that surrounds us and how we engage with the possibilities of a new Autonomous Urbanism

Turn-it-over

Readymade

A moving and temporal project that acts in/with/within urban infrastructure for bodies’ purposes

The School of Tourism

fala atelier

Architecture without clients, the 'no-home' condition and life as a perpetual tourist.

INTERVAL

INTERVAL

Architects and designers must stop creating new things. We must, in the first place, make visible the infrastructures that today become waste. Then, redesign them with the aim of making them available for people and communities.

Sacred Animals

Angelo Renna

How can architecture define a possible coexistence between animals and humans? Is a new coexistence really possible?

МКАД CITY

RULIO

The MKAD is more than a ring road; it is a unique loop full of urban routines. It is a circular city.

Do you car or do you care?

SAN. Social Architecture Now.

Rethinking transport: a visionary Milan for people.

Redesign Rhodes

REDESIGN RHODES

The future architecture - experiences in a historical center in Greece - Rhodes

Build your city

MELEEM Skopje

Reanimation of public unused space through people participative design and sustainable interventions

built by use

Urbancreativity.org

The knowledge about public space user visual signs production will give the proper arguments to rescue the street, towards citizenship, pedestrians and a sustainable mobility model.

Gran Mediterraneo

Architectures David Tajchman

Gran Mediterraneo is self-initiated proposal for an innovative mixed-use and city-specific high-rise in the White City

B/N Project

Vortex_A

Temporaries agrocities for seasonal migrant workers in Italian regions of Apulia and Basilicata

Experimental Nature

Carlo Seropian

future architecture is a reflection of human's evolution

NORDHALEØEN

URBAN POWER

This vision is combining the future water barrier of Copenhagen with a transit hub and new urban developments.

Neo-Brutalist Complex

Moshe Linke

A big, stylish complex made completely out of concrete.

Reverse Subterrestrial

Yasue Maetake

An architecture which indicates a transferring Interior to Exterior; liberating the Subterrane to Above ground

Recipe for School Park - guided self-building process

Re-generacija

Plan for gradual construction of a school playground built by the school itself.

Ports of Danube

arch:m:st

“The ship is the heterotopia par excellence. In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates.” Michel Foucault (Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias – 1967)

Resilience Mixture

ALBERTO MORENO HERRERA

INTERMODAL TRANSPORT HUBS LIKE NEW HEARTS OF CITIES.

Extreme Cities

Andrea Robezzati

The current generation of architects and urban planners can be defined the “climate change generation”; nowadays they are call to fight many different battles together, economic, social, political, but the most important is climate change.

Creativity Resides Here?

Tenthaus Oslo

We seek to redefine understandings of creativity in the social fabric of modern life at a core stage in human development – childhood.

Future Proof City Streets

Simona Serafino

Space to move, space to act and space to identify are the components with which to make “great city streets” future proof.

Processes: the XXII Century Museum

Gonzalo Basulto

Future architecture is about the life of buildings, placing value on processes instead of forms. We need spaces to feeling more creative. Future architecture is a new ‘more with less’: it is the society making a better world to use it

Void Operations for a Collective Urban Topos

Joel Kerner

Urban spaces should be thought of as figures, objects, and volumes that are given equal attention and visual weight as buildings.

A Heritable Exchange

Mapping Nottingham's Identity

Future Architecture is aware of its mediating role in empowering citizens to become engaged in the co-creation of public life in places in which they live, therefore identifying new relations to Heritage.

Infra-Scape

Ringscape Wien

New forms of collision and interaction in the complex space of the shared city

The Autonomous Whale

Ozan Ertug

A construction system for no human involved construction sites

Quantified Communities

Leon Butler

An activated citizen within a community could contribute to their society in a passive way. Providing useful quantifiable data that would also serve to be gamified by a substantive predictive, improvement in their surrounding as a result of their quantified activated self.

MUUSA: Helsinki Museums Summer Festival

draftworks*architects

A summer festival of Helsinki’s local museums, as a counterweight to the planned Guggenheim franchise.

On the Move

RULIO

Infrastructures attract people and generate culture. Understanding this is key to city development.

Occupy Architecture

Ole Robin Storjohann, Mateusz Mastalski

While the trend to mega projects will continue, a natural counter-movement of "occupying" micro-architecture, based on a maker-culture and a shared economy is going to fill all the gaps that big developers and declining technologies leave behind.

Friction Atlas

La Jetée

The architecture of law that regulates behaviours in public space is decoded, represented and performed.

Bedroom Exodus

Bedroom Exodus

Bedroom Exodus is focusing on the question, how different sleep frequencies like polyphasic sleep, could change our living environments.

Reading the Future

Markéta Březovská and Matthias Stippich

“Karlsruhe Latest News” fictively published on January 2, 2030 peeks into the future of the city…

Micro Urbanisms

Iyiofis

Our cities deserve a closer look to be able to provide a better quality of life.