Urban intervention

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100architects has introduced 'high loop', an urban intervention proposal for the renovation of puji road pedestrian bridge in shanghai.

Urbhang is an urban intervention aiming to activate a public space and transform it into a lively experience, by creating an outdoor public living room where people are invited to sit, read, rest, play, work, meet and interact. Urbhang is a series of hanging urban installations for hanging out.

Utile worked with the City of Boston and the nonprofit A Better City to develop design and process guidelines for tactical activation of the public realm. The project began with an audit of existing City policies around parklets and sidewalk cafes, leading to an overhaul of the way the City approaches placemaking interventions in the public realm. To codify the new regime, Utile created a Tactical Public Realm Standards document which includes both design guidelines and a how-to guide to the…

Urban interventions can bring vitality to any place, they create new spaces that enrich everyday life in the ever-complex organisms that cities are. While we see

1st prize in competition for small scale urban intervention "City Acupuncture" for ECC Wrocław 2016

For one dreary rainy afternoon this past July, an underpass of Ottawa’s Queensway was overtaken by acoustic guitars and hot pink shag carpets. With bicycles and runners, and the rumble of the O-Train and highway as a backdrop, passersby were invited to play a song on the guitar or lounge on the carpeted concrete slopesContinue reading "Design Citizens: professional-grassroots urban tactics"

Part of my research involves looking at how temporary interventions can help in determining future development. This installation is in the old Carlsberg brewery in the Vesterbro neighborhood of Co…

Happiness and Urban Spaces What happiness is? “Are you happy?” is the question I used to ask my friends and colleges What announced me is that no matter what answer people gave at last, almost all of them looked puzzling and been offended at first time. It seems that for most people do not know […]

Public Realm Concept We are working on conceptual designs for two town “gateway” sites, with an aspiration to transform existing vehicle-dominated areas of public realm into joyous and functional community spaces.