How can we live in a space that is generally considered unlivable? This question forms the starting point of Inhabited Road. Instead of treating roads as barriers that should be removed, the project explores their potential as foundations for new urban life. By building above an existing road, it creates a continuous structure that combines public programs, housing and circulation while preserving the infrastructure below. Following the linear course of the road, the building is conceived as a system that could theoretically extend as far as the infrastructure itself.

The building is organized into three distinct layers: a flexible public level for culture, work and social interaction, a residential level with adaptable housing typologies, and a circulation level that connects the external stair towers with the apartments. Reinforced concrete provides the primary structure, while exposed steel trusses define the façade and express the project’s structural logic.

Rather than replacing infrastructure, Inhabited Road inhabits it. The project transforms the overlooked space above the road into a new urban layer, challenging conventional ideas of how infrastructure and architecture can shape the future city.