MAP Office   China   To reduce demographic pressure, the team proposes adding eight artificial islands to Hong Kong’s territory, very dense and compressed between mountains and sea. With eyes set on the future, each one of them embodies a local value. 

The Network Architecture Lab   China   To generate a critical stance around the problem of city growth and to promote political change, the team has produced a newspaper, The New City Reader, and an urban strategy table game placed in the context of Hong Kong in 2047. 

Superpool, Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée   Turkey   Sequences of towers on open expanses of land: this has been the building strategy used in Istanbul over the last decades. Through civic empowerment strategies, the scheme proposes a positive panorama for these neighborhoods. 

Inteligencias colectivas, NLÉ, Zoohaus   Nigeria   The lack of detail maps of the most populous city of Nigeria and the second in Africa, being as it is under constant transformation, prompted to develop a map reflecting the relationship between the local conditions and the specific urban context.&nb

URBZ   India   Instead of taking down the existing slums and implementing low-quality refurbishment plans, the community is encouraged to build and improve its homes through the collaboration among neighbors, local artists and professional designers. 

Ensamble Studio, MIT, POPlab   India   For the densely populated quarters of Mumbai the architects have envisaged a growth scheme consisting in a superstructure that neighbors can make their own and a range of lightweight construction systems to enlarge the existing buildings. 

SITU Studio   United States   In an effort to reduce overcrowding, a consequence of the reduced housing stock in the city, the scheme proposes creating community-scale public areas that take up underused spaces such as rooftops and backyards. 

Cohabitation Strategies / CohStra   United States   As a means to attain a greater social equity for future generations, the proposal rethinks and changes the traditional concept of property and opts for collective alternatives that guarantee permanent access to housing. 

ETH Zürich, MAS Urban Design, Rua Arquitetos: Évora + Rivera   Brazil   The Varanda Products catalogue offers a range of solutions inspired in the puxadinhos, aggregates of recycled materials superposed to the existing structures, which Rio locals have used over the years to colonize their environment.  Presented wi

Jean Nouvel, BIAD   China   In 2013, the jury of the NAMOC competition gave the first prize to the team of Jean Nouvel with BIAD (Beijing Institute of Architectural Design), choosing their proposal over those of Zaha Hadid and of Frank Gehry, who were shortlisted. Located in Ol

Ábaton   Spain   This house of 80 m³ and 27 m², designed for two people and transportable in a standard truck, is scalable and can be set up instantly. It contains three differentiated spaces: a living area/kitchen, a full bathroom with shower and one bedroom.

MAAM, MAPA, Studio Paralelo   Brazil   In spite of being an artificial and prefabricated object, Minimod is designed to become part of the context in a sensitive and respectful way; its simple form and its openings make the experiential element prevail over the uniqueness of the artifact.

Studio Arte   Portugal   A reused container serves as sustainable model for nomad housing: windows are cut out of the surface and a porticoed porch is added to the original volume to build a dwelling space that is reduced but has a great programmatic flexibility. 

White Arkitekter   Sweden   Aiming to create a cabin that changes in color depending on the position of the observer, 95 templates of 2 mm-thick corrugated sheet and a printed marble-like texture are the only elements needed to materialize this experiment anywhere.

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   Like the City Wall, the Auditorium of Lugo by Paredes & Pedrosa, under construction since 2011 and now nearing completion, extends linearly and adapts to the topography of the hill into which it is tucked. The metallic roof folds to harbor the co

The constant generation of data through daily-use objects like mobile phones expands the information networks, which become a valuable tool in participatory processes and have a great potential as marketing instrument. These advantages and also the r

The first retrospective exhibition devoted to Stephen Shore (New York, 1947) covers the main conceptual cores of this work: the reflection on photographic language, the analysis of the landscape and the meaningful use of color. Over his four decades