Bike-friendly future city concept with wider streets wins SketchUp Design Sprint Challenge
Raphaël Craverio has won SketchUp's Design Sprint Challenge 2025 with his design for a city where pedestrians and bikes pass underneath buildings, as announced in a video produced for Trimble and Dezeen by content creator Mr Chuck. Craverio, an architecture student at LISAA Paris, won the competition with a model depicting a cross section of The post Bike-friendly future city concept with wider streets wins SketchUp Design Sprint Challenge appeared first on Dezeen.
Raphaël Craverio has won SketchUp's Design Sprint Challenge 2025 with his design for a city where pedestrians and bikes pass underneath buildings, as announced in a video produced for Trimble and Dezeen by content creator Mr Chuck.
Craverio, an architecture student at LISAA Paris, won the competition with a model depicting a cross section of a building that extends over a street occupied by colourfully demarcated bike lanes and foot traffic.
Raphaël Craverio's future city concept won the SketchUp Design Sprint Challenge 2025
The design illustrates a plan to accommodate growing populations in cities by widening sidewalks to extend underneath residential buildings.
The model also features a shared rooftop garden on which residents can grow their own food.
Wooden slats on the roofs either open to let sunlight in or close to block it, according to the time of day and season.
Trees and plants have been introduced on each storey to provide shade in the summer.
According to Craverio, the project aims to increase quality of life in cities, encouraging a greener and more community-focussed approach to the built environment.
Craverio will receive a prize of 5,000 US dollars, as well as a one-year subscription to SketchUp Studio.
As per the brief for the competition, Craverio created the winning design in just 60 minutes using SketchUp.
The competition celebrated the software brand's 25th anniversary by tasking entrants to look 25 years ahead and imagine a space for the year 2050.
Reflecting increasing constraints on urban space, entrants were challenged to create their design with a footprint of under 500 square feet (46 square metres).
Noris Obijiaku, a TikTok creator and architect-in-training based in London, who goes by the name of Mr Chuck online, teamed up with Dezeen on a campaign to launch the competition and announce its winners.
Obijiaku, known for his tours of iconic British housing estates on TikTok, demonstrated how to enter the competition by creating his own entry and documenting it in a video.
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