URBAN WAVES / Vatnsmyri, Reykjavik, Urban Competition

This project imagines the city as a breathing organism, its shape woven through time by soil, water, air, and collective gestures. It begins with a void—the airport’s relocation—turned into a living infrastructural field. A thin and porous matrix, made of underground circulations, rotated grids, and ecological corridors, becomes the spine for future urban life.

Rather than imposing form, the project creates conditions for occupation. Density grows slowly, like sediment. Infrastructures do not dictate; they hold, absorb, and adapt. Neighborhood blocks become small constellations, connected through walkable distances and shared thresholds.

As time expands, the old center thickens, public buildings become anchors, peripheries loosen their grip. The city reorganizes itself through its infrastructural breath.

Urban Weaves anticipates the logics of my current research: infrastructures as open temporal systems, voids as active spatial agents, ecological continuity as a silent but powerful urban language.

Team: Riccardo Vannucci, Giuseppina Forte