5. 1 week to design
3 cities explored
8 teams per city
3 hours to assemble
10 minutes to present
6. In the spirit of world’s fairs and futurist
planning schemes everywhere, this
competition challenges participants to
peer into that future, to imagine the bold,
visionary architectural and engineering
solutions that will give form to our cities
100 years from now.
28. Resourceful and
Opportunistic
Locally attuned and
Responsive
Integrates cyclic
[ Life adapts
and Evolves
Optimizing rather
than Maximizing
Using multi-
processes
functional design
Resilient
Life creates
conditions
conducive to
Life
] Leveraging
Interdependence
Using benign
manufacturing
nature’s deep design principles
30. transportation
nodes and neighbourhoods
building ecosystems
water resources
land utilization
building systems
rethinking the building blocks of a city
39. Locally attuned and
Responsive
[ Life adapts
and Evolves
Optimizing rather
than Maximizing
Using multi-
functional design
Resilient
Life creates
conditions
conducive to
Life
] Leveraging
Interdependence
transportation
46. Locally attuned and
Responsive
[ Life adapts
and Evolves
Optimizing rather
than Maximizing
Using multi-
functional design
Resilient
Life creates
conditions
conducive to
Life
] Leveraging
Interdependence
power generation / storage / distribution network
nodes and
neighbourhoods
49. Locally attuned and
Responsive
[ Life adapts
and Evolves
Optimizing rather
than Maximizing
Using multi-
functional design
Resilient
Life creates
conditions
conducive to
Life
] Leveraging
Interdependence
harvesting / storage / cleansing / distribution network
water
52. hydrophilic skin
• captures water from
the air.
• the bio-structure
filters and directs
collected water to the
water network.
photosynthetic
membranes
• sequesters CO2 and
releases O2 to the
atmosphere.
• captures solar
energy for distribution
through the power
network.
building systems
53. carbon-based
bio-structure
cellular transport of
air and water
biofiltration of air
and water
enzymatic
self-assembly
building systems
54. is not a in the future . . .. . .. . .
the city city in a forest
is not a city plus a forest