Wild(life) City by Justina Naruseviciute is a climate resilient school architecture project set in a speculative 2100 future.
The project is not just about imagining a damaged future. Its useful question is educational: how might architecture help children learn, adapt and take part in civic life when climate conditions have changed?
Project visuals
The project visuals show landscape, plan logic, settlement and shared space ideas behind the future school proposal.
Project overview
Justina’s thesis imagines 2100 as a setting for rethinking education, community and urban life. Instead of a centralised city model, the project proposes smaller interconnected poleis that can support local resource sharing, learning and adaptation.
The school is central to that idea. It draws on open-plan and Montessori-influenced thinking, where learning is active, social and connected to the environment around it.
How the school supports resilience
- Education is treated as civic infrastructure, not only a building type.
- Children learn through direct contact with place, community and environmental systems.
- The poleis model gives communities a more adaptable urban structure.
- Open learning spaces support collaboration rather than rigid institutional control.
- The civic economy idea connects shared resources with design, governance and everyday life.
Portfolio lesson
Speculative architecture works best when it has rules. Wild(life) City is stronger when the reader can see the logic behind the future: climate pressure, education, social organisation and the built spaces that connect them.
Showcase a future school or climate project
Architecture Social can feature speculative student work when the project turns a future scenario into clear spatial evidence.
- Explain the scenario without making it vague or theatrical.
- Show how the building helps people learn, adapt or organise.
- Make the relationship between climate, landscape and community clear.
- Use drawings and images that prove the system, not only the atmosphere.
Architecture Social view
Stephen’s recruiter view is that future-facing projects need discipline. If the world is speculative, the design evidence has to be even clearer: what changes, what remains useful and how people would actually use the space.
Next step
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