INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION
COMMUNITY URBAN FARM
RESULT
COMMUNITY URBAN FARM
Editorial reflection
The Community Urban Farm – Designing for Shared Growth competition challenged participants to envision urban agriculture as more than a productive landscape—it asked them to create places where communities can cultivate food, knowledge, and meaningful connections. The submissions demonstrated thoughtful responses to the growing need for resilient, inclusive, and environmentally conscious urban spaces.
We extend our sincere appreciation to every participant for their creativity, commitment, and vision, as well as to our jury for their careful evaluation of the diverse range of proposals. Congratulations to the winners and commendations to all who contributed. We hope these ideas inspire future cities where shared growth, sustainability, and community flourish together.
EXPERTS
Jury Panel
Distinguished architects from around the world evaluate submissions with rigorous professional standards and creative insight.
01 First Place
Winner
Restoring An Identity
Marilia Petrou & Vlada Dovguchits
The proposal delivers a holistic vision that successfully reconnects food production, cultural heritage, environmental restoration, and community life. The integration of aquaponics, adaptive public spaces, recycled rubble construction, and the Hebron glass workshop creates a highly original and socially resilient framework that responds exceptionally well to Gaza's context.
02 Second Place
Remarkable
Urban Farm: Urban Design of Wangfujing Area Based on the Concept of Rural City and Sharing Economy
Ningyu Ma, Yitong Xiao & Ziheng Chi
A comprehensive and highly convincing proposal that successfully transforms underutilized urban infrastructure into a vibrant mixed-use farming ecosystem, seamlessly integrating food production, public space, education, and community activity.
03 Third Place
Exceptional
Growth Among Ruins
Despina Ignatiou
An exceptionally visionary proposal that transforms abandoned urban fabric into a productive landscape through adaptive reuse. The integration of farming, habitation, circulation, and communal life within existing ruins demonstrates a bold architectural narrative and outstanding design innovation while preserving the memory of place.
Honourable Mention
Where Ruins Bloom
Meto Hysotoci, Daria Shevchenko, Maria Veniamin & Despoina Pyrpou
The proposal presents a memorable architectural language where woven timber structures become both productive landscapes and civic spaces. Its adaptable farming platforms, local vegetation strategy, water reuse system, and integration of community functions such as a library, kitchen, market, and meditation hub create a thoughtful vision for ecological and social regeneration.
Honourable Mention
Saanjh
Nitya Goinka
An exceptionally mature proposal that reinterprets the traditional village as a contemporary urban farming commune, seamlessly integrating education, housing, food production, and community life into a coherent spatial ecosystem. The clustering strategy, landscape preservation, and social programming are particularly compelling.
Honourable Mention
Common Ground
Mahara Falif, Gwen Del Rosario & Cindy Ma
A highly empathetic and socially impactful proposal that successfully redefines the urban farm as a community food hub, integrating food security, education, agriculture, and public life within a warm, village-inspired architectural language. The relationship between the food bank, greenhouse, productive landscape, and public programs is exceptionally well developed.
Honourable Mention
Growing Through Ruins
Anthi Batsouli, Kleopatra Prodromou, Dora Michael & Lynn Danaf
The proposal presents a compelling vision for resilient collective living by embedding housing, farming, education, and community life into Gaza's coastal cliffs. Its combination of hydroponic and soil-based cultivation, low-technology circulation, and minimal land consumption creates a thoughtful response to environmental and spatial constraints while reinforcing social cohesion.
Honourable Mention
Legacy Flora Laboratory
Anastasia Zhandarova, Elena Denisenko, Daria Skosyrskaya & Adel Nazrullaev
An elegant and highly resolved proposal that successfully combines biotechnology, climate adaptation, education, and public engagement into a cohesive architectural vision. The flower-inspired form is more than an aesthetic gesture—it integrates adaptive roof petals for solar energy, rainwater harvesting, and snow management while organizing research spaces around a central atrium. The incorporation of AI monitoring, digital twins, CRISPR research, biofeedback cultivation systems, and vertical farming demonstrates a forward-looking approach that directly addresses future agricultural resilience and biodiversity conservation. The project presents a strong balance between symbolic architecture and technical feasibility.
Celebrating Potential
Shortlisted Entries
Innovative ideas that stood out among hundreds of entries and earned a place in the final shortlist.
1. Design Title: Between root & plate
Winners Name: Elena Denisenko, Anastasia Zhandarova, Malika Yuldasheva & Yuliana Nazarova
2. Design Title: Urban seam
Winners Name: Ekaterina Vasileva, Zhurik Polina & Dasha Zhukova
3. Design Title: AGROTowers
Winners Name: Elena Denisenko, Anastasia Zhandarova, Polina Pozdnyakova & Nargiza Zakizyanova
4. Design Title: BIO- DESIGN AND FLORA REVIVAL LABORATORY «REGENRING»
Winners Name: Anastasia Zhandarova, Elena Denisenko, Aliya Gilfanova & Arina Nikiforova
5. Design Title: SUN-LAB
Winners Name: Anastasia Zhandarova, Elena Denisenko, Azalia Kabirova & Delia Frolkina-Bizert
6. Design Title: Down-To-Earth
Winners Name: Eliora Akhidenor
7. Design Title: The Gardens of Four Winds
Winners Name: Elena Denisenko, Anastasia Zhandarova, Polina Popova & Kirill Shemakhin
8. Design Title: THE SONNET OF STONE
Winners Name: Elena Denisenko, Anastasia Zhandarova, Evgeniya Khramykh & Karina Turkina
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