15-minute city
Urban Design Competition 2021
Foreword
The “15-minute city” is an approach to urban design that aims to improve quality of life by creating cities where everything a resident needs can be reached within 15 minutes by foot, bike or public transit. This concept puts an emphasis on careful planning at the neighbourhood level, giving each district the features it needs to support a full life – including jobs, food, recreation, green space, housing, medical offices, small businesses and more. And importantly, it’s a full life that doesn’t require a car.
‘15-Minute City 2021’ is an international urban design & planning competition that encourages designers and planners to re-imagine our urban landscapes as a cleaner, safer, healthier and more inclusive places to live! Scroll down to see the crème de la crème of city designs from participants from all over the world.
Results in Media
15-MINUTE CITY | Urban Design Competition 2021
Results of Urban Design Competition: 15 Minute City 2021
theCharette’s 15-minute city – Winners Unveiled
theCharette’s 15 MINUTE CITY 2021 - Winners Unveiled
First Prize winner
Antonella Marzi • Viviane Viniarski • Jose Gerardo Ponte
Italy
15MC-7641
Jury Comments
“This proposal puts forward a comprehensive response to a fully integrated but dispersed city plan employing the TOD model. It provides a strong integration of green spaces interspersed in most community units suggesting a design response to address stress. It broadly integrates energy and food production and responds to the need for integrated affordable housing in the future urban context.“
“Attention to detail and visual communications are excellent. I really enjoyed how the participants have magnified four important units of their proposed city to present mixed land uses that promote sustainability, resilience, and self-sustenance. They have even mentioned the required time for walking from one unit to the other, which is excellent.”
SECOND Prize winner
Aayushi D’costa • Ruchika Khalate
India
15MC-7662
Jury Comments
“This submission offers an innovative solution that addresses key concerns in global megacities like Ahmedabad. It addresses water, waste, food, equity, and energy. It doesn’t provide a comprehensive integrative proposal overall but rather through careful reading of an intricate and very interesting presentation, one finds the various pieces that are proposed to make a more livable city. It adds dimensions to the functionality of each piece of infrastructure it seeks to implement, and rethinks open spaces and what they can offer to a community (power generation, urban farming, etc.).“
THIRD Prize winner
Michelle Gouw
Singapore
15MC-7284
Jury Comments
“An incredibly striking presentation that is visionary in its integration of architecture and nature to protect wildlife habitat and natural resources. It provides a model that limits the footprint of built fabric in a sensitive ecosystem while addressing the idea of the 15-minute city. It incorporates many aspects of human-nature symbiosis and addresses human and natural health, equity, resilience, alternative energy generation, and food production.“
HONORABLE MENTION
Neha Karmarkar • Akash Chougula
India
15MC-7316
HONORABLE MENTION
Omar Hason • Elizabeth Bishop
USA
15MC-7492
Jury Comments
“This is a very thoughtful scheme that deserves attention for its focus on the meaning and impacts of different urban forms, independent of social content. It creates a believable yet aspirational strategy for urban intervention. Another favourite of mine, I even like the naively sloppy drawings, although I wish there was a clearer correspondence between the plan and the main perspective.“
HONORABLE MENTION
Zayan Gulzar • Jinay Jain • Yash Umekar
India
15MC-7680
Jury Comments
“I really liked how the well-connected, wide, and walkable streets in each module have increased the permeability of urban landscape while reducing the commuting time. More importantly, the inclusion of necessary uses (such as educational, residential, and commercial uses) in each module is an excellent idea for increasing the self-sustainability.“
HONORABLE MENTION
Sufeng Xiao • Runke Luo
USA
15MC-7731
HONORABLE MENTION
Lisha Yang
China
15MC-7273
Jury Comments
“It is a highly detailed and visually appealing proposal for a 15-min city in Nanjing, China. Multiple design considerations for the improvement of traffic, green spaces, industrial activities, culture, and life are amazing. More importantly, the competition participants communicate all of their ideas visually, which is excellent.“
HONORABLE MENTION
Chuyin Qi
Australia
15MC-7653
HONORABLE MENTION
Gabriela Chechlacz • Alicja Jezierska • Karol Rytel
Poland
15MC-7306
Jury Comments
“This proposal is comprehensive and well thought out. It is a clear and informative presentation. The solution is a bit discouraging because it suggests building in an existing forest rather than the idea of using the proposal as repair to an environment that needs reforestation.”
“Exciting project, but it is too clearly derivative of Rem Koolhaas’ scheme for the Bibliotheque Nationale.“
HONORABLE MENTION
Anjanaa Devi Srikanth
Singapore
15MC-7258
HONORABLE MENTION
Annete Priyadarshini • Siyu Lu • Jaisudha Nandakumar
Sweden
15MC-7318
Jury Comments
“A thoughtful and reasonable application of smart planning concepts to a well-chosen district. Only the overhead walkways confuse me. The scheme recognizes the value of normative urbanism of buildings, blocks, and well-shaped public spaces.”
“The 15-min self-sustained Inten(t)city include several creative design considerations for the advancement of resilience, autonomy, sustainable lifestyle, accessibility, and multiplicity. I specifically really liked how the participants communicate their ideas on map using latter codes and isometric drawings.”
“The approach for this submission is comprehensive and offers a well-considered and realistic/believable solution. The results feel very livable and address questions of equity in the city of the future. While the solution does not substantially stretch the imagination, it receives extra points for addressing an existing underutilized city area in a way that is real and implementable.”
HONORABLE MENTION
Geslin George • Glen Frank • Shashank Achanthodi
India
15MC-7424
Jury Comments
“Gender equity is at the heart of the Hexcity proposal, which offers a bold solution that reframes the traditional urban development perspective to address the needs of women in the cities of India. Each aspect of the submission offers a step toward empowerment for women in urban contexts. The presentation is clear, easy to understand and relate to. Throughout, Hexcity integrates responses that are sustainable, healthy, and inclusive, to create a more livable urban environment. The proposal is a bit weak in its specifics of the housing solutions and how these might innovatively integrate with the refreshing approaches to the urban streetscape and green spaces.“
Shortlisted - TOP 30
Out of all the path-breaking works received for ’15-Minute City 2021′, only the choicest 30 could make it to the final round of evaluation. Hit the button below to explore the other shortlisted Top 30 projects with exceptional concepts!