UnIATA '22

Adaptive Socio-Cultural EpiCenter

An adaptive project and a new representation of libraries in the MENA region, offered to all people without the need of using transportation. The project was inspired by a personal experience, as it was noticed that people in the MENA region can hardly go to libraries by walking, as it is far from their homes.

Translations: The Utopy and Performative Void

Translations is the sum of two projects in the same place, two opposing strategies that open the range of how to intervene the urban void. These strategies are applied in the Sabana Station from Bogotá.Both visions, with their respective and particular representation, are put to the test in a 100-year timeline to see how they progress, decline and/or evolve.

NYAC - New York Affordable City

Starting from the city’s goal to reach 300,000 affordable units by 2026, this thesis aims to investigate the process that makes the city un-affordable, through a design experience based on a multi-layered reading of the urban and social fabric of the city.

RE-DEVELOPMENT OF RANGPUR CITY MARKET

Growth centers and bazaars are the economic lifelines of Bangladesh. However, to meet the emerging challenges of economic progression in a middle-income country, the economic infrastructure of the bazaars needs to be more integrated and responsive. This thesis looks into the question of to what extent can architecture is a part of the solution.

NANO NEST 2.0

(COLLECTIVE LIV[IN]G FOR INDIVIDUALS) is an advanced living system where young individuals can have living units according to their needs, economic ability, locations, and the partners they choose to share with. Their information data will configure the units which can be reconfigurable over time with the changing needs.

A New Vision of Routine facilities

The project considers the topics about the adaptation of the city to the sustainable future realities, its functions and space, to make it more comfortable in use for people. How the routine facilities could make the higher quality of neighbourhood for local people, bringing all needed facilities, but keeping business part to have and support own economy.

Fire station as an inclusive element of space.

Rural areas are increasingly affected by fires and problems of exclusion. The project involves a network of fire stations around a landscape park with the main facility in the village Polecko. The initiating element is a tower, which serves as a lookout point creating a tourist route. All firehouses are built from rammed earth and work as a community centers

REINCARNATION OF RUINS

Through an architectural intervention, the project aims to understand and appreciate the history and qualities of the ruined mill and integrate these qualities into the atmosphere of the new space, binding the old and the new together and at the same time, retaining the character of the ruin.

Apparatus of Amusement

A retail for Post-consumption. Experimenting alternate productive relations to mindless consumption.

The Cathedral of Movement

The Cathedral of Movement is a sports centre for the banking district of the City of London. It is the regeneration of the abandoned office with flooding problems. It creates space for mental and physical well-being for the busy workers and kids from a neighbouring school, with a south-facing riverside park as a flooding and public enhancement strategy.

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY, SIRAJGANJ

In Bangladesh, the energy recovery from waste can be an alternative for meeting the local demand. The main objective of this project was not just energy production; it also aimed to create a self-sustaining and environmentally friendly industry, while making scope for social integration.

Museum of the Mundane

REMINSCENCE OF THE PAST THAR DESERT VERNACULAR

The Project is a reminiscence of archaic intel of the Desert Past where water is a sanctified element. The premise of the project is an analogical exploration into the tectonics of the Desert and how it transpires from the people who inhabit such harsh yet beautiful and serene terrain.

ANAMNESIS: to the future

"A Sustainable Urban Prototype" The project explores environmentally sustainable opportunities in architecture by proposing new ways of urban living. Hence, the design becomes a self-sustaining prototype for future of the cities, reshaping both the ecology and the community of the area in terms of both environmental and social aspects.

Celebrating Tea

Tea has been an integral part of global culture for centuries. This beverage is widely consumed throughout different cultures on different occasions. Tea consumption and production is notably significant in Bangladesh as well. The project aims to create a dialogue amongst the researchers, tea-workers and general people through the connectivity of the spaces.

HAIKI VILLAGE

The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened the mental health and wellness of seniors residing in the Beach road estate. The proposal aims to design an urban kampong that encourages social interaction to allow the elderly residents to be comfortable in their own neighbourhood so as to help them adjust to the new norm.

JIGSAW

Elderly people and orphans are a susceptible part of society. they face many difficult situations during their life; feelings of depression or feeling of being left out . JIGSAW is a place where they can find a secondary family, learn from each other and be happier than before