2025 | Professional

NY Architectural Design Awards Silver Winner Winner

Live Above the Memory: Rooftops as Social Infrastructure

Entrant

Jiazheng Li, Kun Wei, Liuyun Wang

Category

Urban Design and Planning - Infrastructure

Client's Name

Country / Region

United States

The Medina of Tunis—one of the oldest and most culturally vibrant medinas in North Africa—is at risk. Once filled with majestic homes and communal courtyards, it now faces rapid physical degradation, with over 1,000 structures in danger of collapse. Beneath its tiled rooftops lie generations of stories, yet today, many of these rooftops shelter precarious lives in buildings labeled uninhabitable.

This project proposes a rooftop-based urban design strategy that addresses structural risk, housing injustice, and social fragmentation. By activating the overlooked space above the Medina, this proposal aims to stabilize buildings, connect communities, and restore a shared sense of dignity to residents living within ancestral ruins.

Credits

Landscape Designer
Jiazheng Li
Senior Associate
Kun Wei
Landscape Designer
Liuyun Wang
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