fortnite x ZHA invite players to 're:imagine london' in multiplayer quest

re:imagine london, a new multiplayer quest on fortnite

The popular video game Fortnite has introduced Re:Imagine London, a creative quest powered by Epic Games‘ Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). The online experience was jointly developed by Zaha Hadid Architects to research the use of UEFN for practical architectural applications and to pool creator talent across industries, including architecture, landscape, and interiors. Players are dropped onto a creator-made island situated around London’s waterfronts, inviting them to explore the city as a cooperative multiplayer experience in the genre of strategy-builder games with an educational component.

Re:Imagine London on Fortnite | all images © Epic Games, courtesy ZHA

exploring urban intensification and community participation

Re:Imagine London investigates urban intensification and community participation in creating walkable, mixed-use, sustainable development. The Epic Games-engineered experience facilitates rapid optioneering through an engaging and exploratory approach to negotiating the complexities of the urban condition to build collaboratively in a contemporary context. As seen on Fornite’s platform, built content is crafted in various scales as pre-composed spatial scenes, expressing architectural, geometric, and spatial features consistent with ZHA’s built works while contributing to configured solutions’ planning and constructional awareness. The modules incorporate recent advances in construction technologies while showcasing a parametric approach to environmental and contextual performance through typological variation, gradation, and volumetric lighting and material effects.

prospector eagle view

a game designed by zaha hadid architects with epic games

  Published by Epic Labs, Re:Imagine London highlights UEFN’s capabilities in Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) based on content provided by Zaha Hadid Architects, AccuCities, and Beyond Creative. The project continues ongoing research applications by ZHA’s Computation and Design Group (ZHACODE) in urban planning, platform design, spatial content creation, configurators, user experience design, and future twins.  Players can take part in Re:Imagine London by downloading Fortnite (Fortnite.com/download) on their platform of choice and searching ‘Re:Imagine London’ or ‘1442-4257-4418’ in game. Join the ZHACODE Discord server and share your creations!

boating on the Thames waterfront