The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) launched the book of its 9th Advanced Architecture Contest: Design for Biocities. The publication includes the more than 130 proposals that were selected among the 202 proposals received from over 50 countries.
This year’s competition challenged students and professionals from all over the world to propose how to design urban spaces, cities, buildings, objects, or solutions of any scale, directed towards the transition to Biocities. The responses explored how we might adapt to the changing relations between human and natural systems in a moment of climate crisis. Cities have always reflected the civilizations that built them, and at this critical moment where climate change is transforming our living environment, architects and designers had the
possibility of rethinking our position of domination in relation to all that surrounds us. The proposals were looking to respond to the rising concerns of the bursting of planetary boundaries, which regulate the stability and resilience of the earth system as it currently stands, and they urged the need to simultaneously look at nature based as well as advanced technological solutions to reimagine resilient cities of the future.
