Fort Lauderdale · Florida · Est. 2023
25.6538°N · 80.4399°W · Pinecrest, FL
Boston Architectural College · MArch 2024
NEW
BURBIA
A Manifesto for
The Suburb of the Future
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No Cars People First Nature as Infrastructure Voronoi Land Division Garden Walls 90,000 Residents Zero Flood Risk Energy Self-Sufficient Community is the Plan No Cars People First Nature as Infrastructure Voronoi Land Division Garden Walls 90,000 Residents Zero Flood Risk Energy Self-Sufficient Community is the Plan
The Question

Why Do Suburbs
Break People?

Skopje, Macedonia
Where I Learned to Walk
Life organized around the pedestrian. Streets filled with people. The city was the community — built at human scale.
Chicago Suburbs, Illinois
Where I Learned to Drive
Cul-de-sacs and parking lots. A garage door opening, closing. The neighbors were strangers. The only way to exist was behind a windshield.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Where I Found the Question
The pandemic pushed me downtown — walkable again. The contrast was undeniable. Then came the thesis: What if suburbs could be the best of both worlds?

"What if we could give American families space, nature, and community — without surrendering their lives to the car?"

The Formula
NEWBURBIA
=
People
+
Nature
−
Car

Three variables. One suburban revolution. Every design decision in Newburbia flows from this equation — and nothing gets built that contradicts it.

Three Pillars

The Principles
That Build It.

Pillar 01
Town
Carless · Connected · Organic
+

Newburbia's urban structure is organized by Voronoi cell division — the same geometry nature uses to pack cells, crack mud, arrange honeycombs. Every block is human-scaled. Every path belongs to a person, not a vehicle.

VORONOI LAND ORGANIZATION
I
No car shall enter Newburbia. Paths belong to pedestrians and cyclists. The car is civilization's most efficient destroyer of human connection, and it stops at the gate.
II
Land is divided by Voronoi geometry. Organic, non-orthogonal blocks that scale to human movement — the same mathematics nature has used for billions of years.
III
Level I paths: 40 feet wide, AI-powered public trams + bike lanes. Level II paths: 20 feet wide, pedestrian and bicycle only. Emergency access built in — but subordinate to people.
IV
A Transportation Hub at the entrance serves as the gateway — park outside, enter on foot. The car exists at the threshold, never inside.
V
Pedestrian bridges connect public buildings across the canal — simultaneously paths and gathering places. Infrastructure that makes you stop and talk to someone.
Pillar 02
Sustain
Garden · Energy · Climate Resilient
+

Newburbia doesn't ask nature to tolerate human presence. It asks human presence to serve nature back. Every home is a food producer, an energy generator, and a flood management system — simultaneously.

GARDEN WALL GARDEN WALL 18 SOLAR PANELS ELEVATED — FLOOD + HURRICANE RESISTANT RAINWATER COLLECTION
I
Every home facade grows food. Hydroponic garden walls collect rainwater from the roof and recirculate it — a closed-loop system turning the house itself into a garden.
II
18 solar panels per home. Flat roofs face the Florida sun without apology. Energy self-sufficiency is not a feature — it is the starting position.
III
Curvilinear building geometry breaks down hurricane wind forces before they can build momentum. The shape of the home is its first line of defense.
IV
Homes are built on stilts. The elevated ground floor keeps living spaces above flood stage and reduces wind load — structure as climate adaptation.
V
The riverwalk is designed to flood. In wet season it becomes a water channel. In dry season it becomes a promenade. Nature's rhythm built into the public realm.
Pillar 03
Community
People-Centered · Alive · Connected
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The road is the enemy of community. When you remove it, something remarkable fills the space: people. Newburbia is designed so that daily life constantly creates opportunities for accidental human connection.

I
Roads are dismissed entirely as the organizing principle of the suburb. The town core — hospital, school, town hall, farmers market — is designed around where people want to be, not where cars need to go.
II
Secondary cores: multifamily buildings with ground-floor retail and courtyard gathering spaces. The mixed-use block as community battery — it charges every time someone steps outside.
III
Pedestrian bridges are community infrastructure. They are not merely how you get from A to B — they are where you run into your neighbor, where kids play, where you stop and lean on the railing.
IV
Level II garden paths feel like walking through nature. No noise pollution, no exhaust, no urgency. The ambient environment of Newburbia is designed to make people slow down and notice each other.
V
Art Deco elements and Florida vernacular architecture give Newburbia a visual identity that belongs to its place. Residents feel the continuity of local culture even inside a radically new model.
By the Numbers
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Resident Capacity at Full Build-Out
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Solar Panels Per Home
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Home Prototypes Including ADA Duplex
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Cars Inside Newburbia's Boundaries
Build-Out Phases
Phase I · 2030
Foundation
Transportation hub, main town core, first residential blocks, primary canal infrastructure. The essential skeleton of Newburbia takes shape. Pinecrest's new residents begin populating the Level I path network.
Phase II · 2050
Expansion
Secondary town cores develop. Multifamily residential blocks fill out the Voronoi cells. The Level II garden path network reaches every corner. Riverwalk complete. Community density reaches critical mass.
Phase III · 2070
Full Capacity
90,000 residents. Every home energy self-sufficient. Food production woven into the architecture. A suburb that has completely abandoned car-centric design — and proven it works, at scale, in South Florida.

"I believe that Newburbia has the power to enrich people's lives — by its functionality, by its prioritization of community, by using architectural design not as a product but as a promise to the future."

Maria Bogatinovska · Boston Architectural College · 2024
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