SAVE THE PLANET CITY LAB

Project Brief

SAVE THE PLANET CITY LAB is an interactive urban laboratory that transforms the audience into active designers of a carbon-neutral city.

The project combines:

• A modular physical model representing housing, towers, farms, infrastructure, and public buildings

• Embedded environmental metadata (carbon footprint, energy balance, land-use efficiency)

• A real-time digital interface that calculates performance

• AI-generated visualizations that translate the physical model into immersive future cityscapes

Participants assemble urban configurations using modular elements. Each configuration is analyzed, scored, and visualized as a possible future city. Through iterative play, users discover how spatial decisions affect carbon emissions, energy autonomy, density, and ecological balance.

The project functions simultaneously as:

• Educational platform

• Exhibition installation

• Participatory planning tool

• Research instrument for alternative urban typologies

SAVE THE PLANET CITY LAB is not a fixed masterplan — it is a collective rehearsal of future cities.

Distance Zero

(Integration of food production into living environments)

The modular system includes:

• Vertical farms

• Urban agricultural fields

• Food-producing buildings

• Mixed-use residential-agricultural typologies

Food production is embedded directly into the urban fabric.
Participants explore how integrating automated agriculture within housing and high-rise structures reduces transport, emissions, and land pressure.

The lab makes the “Distance Zero” principle spatially understandable and measurable.

Integration of Transport and Architecture

The model includes transport infrastructure as an architectural component rather than a separate layer. Elevated systems, integrated mobility corridors, and compact typologies demonstrate how mobility reshapes urban form.

Participants test:

• Density vs. mobility efficiency

• Land occupation vs. infrastructure integration

• Energy consumption patterns

The project allows experimentation with new urban morphologies where transport is embedded into architecture rather than imposed onto it.

Integration of Nature and Living

Green systems are not decorative add-ons.
They are structural, productive, and ecological components:

• Green façades

• Tree massifs

• Productive landscapes

• Multi-layer urban ecosystems

The model encourages layered, porous, nature-integrated environments — reflecting PVW’s principle that sustainability is a typological question, not a technological accessory.