Vertical city
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Project • By nassereddine chaib • Private Houses
The urban hive: a vertical eco village
The Urban Hive is a vertical eco-village that redefines collective housing by combining productive landscapes, resource efficiency, and shared social infrastructure. Set within a dense urban context, it responds to key challenges such as urban growth, food insecurity, and water scarcity through a self-sustaining and community-oriented living model.
The project is organized as a multi-storey structure that accommodates diverse residents while maintaining a clear environmental logic. It uses low-impact materials, passive design strategies, and renewable energy systems to reduce its ecological footprint, while balancing private dwellings with shared communal spaces.
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At its core, the design prom... More
News • News • 7 Feb 2023
Office of Political Innovation takes a playful and irreverent design approach to design for children
On the outskirts of Madrid in Encinar de los Reyes, Reggio School by the Office of Political Innovation is a bold and whimsical school that stimulates the imagination with elements such as cork walls, concrete arches, eccentric roofs, and round windows. The six-story pilot project for the Reggio Center for Pedagogical Research and Innovation is modeled on the Italian education model established in the 1940s by Loris Malaguzzi that encourages child-led forms of learning.
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Firm principal Andrés Jaque, also the head of Columbia University’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, conceived the building as a ‘vertical city’, with each level offering a different feel and architectur... More
Project • By NoName Architecture • Offices
Vertical City
ClientNational University of La PlataYear2017LocationLa Plata, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaProject authors:No Name Architecture (Arch. Juan Verdaguer Aguerrebehere)
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"Buildings in the city, thought of as a city."It seeks to change the conception of movements in the city, change the concept of distance traveled and minimize it, concentrating part of the occupation program in the building, to stop thinking about changing from one neighborhood to another, but to change from one building-city to another. other.The floors of the building reflect that the programs interact on the same level, expanding or contracting at the different heights of the tower.The combination of color programs and places materialize a volume marked... More
Project • By LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS • Residential Landscape
THE LINK City-Forest
Architecture firm Luca Curci Architects presents THE LINK, a vertical city for 200,000 people. The project aims to rise above the challenge of population density by successfully combining vertical expansion with economic innovation. A self-sustainable city-forest, that will absorb CO2, produce oxygen for cleaner air and increase urban biodiversity. With interconnected communities’ programs. No suburbs. Less poverty oriented.
With its 300 floors THE LINK will reach the maximum height of 1200 meters. The project combines sustainability with population density, and it aims to build up a zero-energy city-building. The city-forest is made of 4 main towers, connected one each other, equipped with green areas on each level, natural light an... More