Utopia by design. Contemporary opportunities for a timeless ideal

For centuries people have dreamt of ideal cities where architecture is beautiful, affordable and inclusive. Utopia has been applied to define architectures hope desire. Many designed or built solutions contributing towards improving our cities.Through a survey European North American housing, this research explores how the utopia in shifted through time. Selected projects showcase architectural responses issues With affordability housing being critical around world, health crisis that made us rethink we live, climate emergency environment accounts for nearly 40% global carbon emissions, challenges today pursuing “utopia by design” changed.Two flexible approaches better are explored: long-term flexibility, an apartment changes throughout lifetime, short-term can change daily. Flexible engineered timber walls developed as modular kit parts, be disassembled, easy fabricate, placed anywhere within apartment. We argue contemporary unfinished product residents develop their spaces, these altered over