Liberland may be the world’s first sovereign nation powered by algae

Selected as a winning entry for the competition.

Published article in inhabitat.com

A proposal for an algae-powered city has won the design competition for Liberland, the world's newest sovereign nation in Europe. A 2.7 square mile patch of land located in a floodplain on the Danube River between Croatia and Serbia, Liberland presents a unique challenge for architects and urbanists tasked with designing a self-governing micro-nation that guarantees its citizens economic and personal freedom. RAW-NYC tackled the challenge with a deep green mixed-use city design that stacks horizontal layers vertically to accommodate population expansion.

The winning proposal is a pedestrian-friendly design that supports a growing populace with stackable horizontal structures. Called Inverted Archaeology, this groundbreaking technique constructs the city-state in consecutive temporal layers to form a self-sufficient, compact, dense, integrated and resilient urban fabric. This is a transit-oriented development that achieves optimum site efficiency and mitigates what – in such a dense environment – would entail a great deal of greenhouse gas emissions from cars. Algae, strains of which don’t require significant sunlight to proliferate, would be grown on the underside of buildings to provide a clean source of energy.

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