City Without Ground
Competition Concept | 2017
How do we keep urban open space when the ground plane is completely occupied and no longer exists?
Cities will not stop growing vertically—or horizontally. When the ground plane is completely consumed, where will open space reside? Instead of conventional solutions such as placing open space underground or on roofs of buildings, what if open space was integrated directly within the architecture itself?
By holistically integrating and merging natural landscape into the artificial environment of buildings, new typologies will arise that will ultimately redefine the function of future public spaces— and to a further extent, the urban fabric itself.