"THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY" contest results

"THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of the future" Organized by The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP.

1st prize - ¨HURBS¨ designed by Sergio Castillo Tello and María Hernández Enríquez from Spain and WATER FUEL designed by Rychiee Espinosa and Seth Mcdowell from the United States.

Finalist ¨HURBS¨ Hybrid Human Urban Re-adaptive Bidirectionally-Relational System which proposed the creation of a participatory experiment in order to develop an urban informational system in which the citizens and experts work together to develop cities through solutions that optimize urban resources. The jury acknowledges this vision of a city as a structure which is re-informed through digital management systems.

Finalist ¨WATER FUEL¨ which proposed the development of technologies that transforms salt water into energy, generating hydrogen in urban environments, to be utilized for transportation systems and urban consumption.

------ and 4 honourable mentions:

"Massive Urban Recycling-Plastered Stadium", designed by Adrian Garcia from Mexico which proposed to recycle urban obsolete structures, incorporating new functions such as domestic functions, without destroying prominent urban buildings, when they've lost their function.

SKY CITY designed by Victor Kirillow from Russia which proposed the construction of urban mega structures, in which the city is stacked vertically to protect it's green spaces, giving access to each level through future transportation systems.

RECIPROCITY designed by Jason Butz from the United States which proposed the creation of recycling structures which recycle urban waste and capable of creating materials of high architectural design for urban reuse.

MOBILIZING VILLAGES designed by Do Trung Kien from Vietnam, which proposed a floating city off the coast of Vietnam, with forms that abstract the surrounding landscapes, approaching the question ¨Is it possible to rise above sea level?¨, and its effect on coastal cities.

via advancedarchitecturecontest