World’s most innovative graduation projects of 2020.
UnIATA '20 - Result Story
UnIATA is an annual competition that presents a new generation of the world's best architects, urbanists, and landscape architects together with their graduation projects. It forms one of the largest presentations of graduation work and offers unrivalled insight into current trends in design education globally and architecture generally. With the world's best graduation projects UnIATA presents each edition with a new generation of the world’s most talented emerging architects, urbanists, and landscape architects, who are ready and equipped to tackle all imaginable contemporary assignments.
The initiative reflects rapid international developments in the design disciplines. Recent decades have seen explosive growth in the scale of international contact, resulting in lively exchanges worldwide. Increasing numbers of designers work on commissions abroad, professional journals are published on an international scale, and training colleges are becoming more and more international in their orientation.
These ideas are the foundation of new possibilities that have the ability to take architecture ahead. With not limited only to academia where they come from, but the whole fraternity with it. Unfuse International Architecture Thesis Award (UnIATA 2020 - Third Edition) is a step taken to identify and promote such exceptional projects across the globe. UnIATA will focus on the graduate and undergraduate projects that happened in the last 3 years and will bring it to the community of Uni.
Here are the best of competition projects as follows:
The winning project - Master’s Category: LOOP WITHIN
Institution: Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA
By: Pengcheng Sun,Shunfan Zheng & Jichao Sun
Description: Cultural Loop Within Three Towers: Climate Adaptive Super Block at Miami River Front. Miami is at the front line of sea-level rise. This superblock design challenges the stereotype of towers as privileged enclaves and tries to reshape the project’s dynamic relationship with the flow of water and people as well.
Short term (influence) and long term (impact) of the thesis project :
Short Term influence is that a challenge to the current Miami high rise typology, facilitating social mixing and inclusive publicity and Long Term influence is that elevating and detaching the public activities from the ground level.
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Winning Project - Bachelor’s Category: HAT YAI MULTICULTURAL BONDING
Institution: King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
By: Suttahathai Niyomwas
Description: “ What is the identity of Hat Yai? ” This project is to create a space that will make people recognize their identity and open up to the differences of believes and culture that help realize what the city already has in order to help re-identify the city in the future.
Short term (influence) and long term (impact) of the thesis project :
Short term: The cultural exchange part is the ‘Market Area’ that will combine the idea of the formal local market, imported products to the new units that will provide more on local products. This will influence the trading culture of the city.
long term: People blend and understand the context of the multicultural areas, open to the differences of culture and beliefs. Make Hat Yai come back to be ‘The capital city of Thailand’ again.
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People’s Choice: LANDFILL TO LANDFORM - A STORY OF TRANSFORM
Institution: Politecnico di Milano, Italy
By: Sanskriti Jindal, Linda Elsa Baby & Manali Jamgaonkar
Description: Continued use of decommissioned Landfill sites is a major cause of concern in developing countries. Ghazipur Landfill Site, located in New Delhi, India has been in news headlines for its height being compared to Qutub Minar and Taj Mahal. These sites are affecting both environmentally, socially, and economically, and thus require a permanent solution.
Short term (influence) and long term (impact) of the thesis project :
Short Term influences: The proposal primarily suggests waste-management and recycling programs on the site, which enables in reducing the toxic emissions and leachate released to the air and water. As the site functions as a consortium, the existing and new waste is segregated on-site and sent off to respective plants for recycling, biogas and energy production. This energy shall be used for on-site operations, thus reducing the load on the electric grid. Furthermore, new open green spaces re-establish a natural habitat that offers a livable environment to the users. The waste-management program offers employment opportunities to rag-pickers for landfill mining and the segregation process supporting them financially.
Long Term Impact: The proposal carried out for the Ghazipur landfill Site can be used as a prototype to regenerate the other decommissioned landfill sites in New Delhi. This, in turn, will help re-establishing a broader green infrastructure network...
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Best in Region West and South Asia: REBIRTH OF ARCHITECTURE: VERTICAL NEIGHBORHOOD
Institution: SMEF's Brick school of Architecture, India
By: Bhairav Parmar
Description:
This thesis focuses on the aspect of a Vertical Neighbourhood built using tools present today knowhow, for a life whose dependencies coexist and alter with the future and is well informed by its past.
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Best in Region Europe and Russia: MADE OF WATER
Institution: Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal
By: Zé Pedro & Rui Pedro
Description:
We’ve been watching devastating realities, where unpredictable numbers of hectares are burned, countless people and animals lose their lives trapped by the fire and devastated by smoke. The Flames have brought darkness. And, it is up to us, beings of the present, to fight for such a future. This is the power of an idea. made of water.
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Best in Region East and Central Asia: FUTURE BROWNFIELD
Institution: Sichuan Agricultural University, China
By: Ding Ruoyu
Description:
A Future Brownfield reclaiming plan and design of Hendon in South Australia.
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Editor’s Choice: GLACIER METAMORPHOSIS - CLIMATE CHANGE AND MELTING
Institution: Politecnico di Milano, Italy
By: Aasish
Description: The Swiss glaciers as known as the water tower of Europe. Due to climate change the uneven glacial runoff due to melting, water shortage or drought is projected to occur more often. Also, the retreat induces a lot of hazards to the environment and ecosystem changing the landform and existing system. How to tackle the rising issue?
Short term (influence) and long term (impact) of the thesis project :
The collection chambers introduced to the landscape extracts the extra runoff glacial water and stores it in the form of the reservoir. the attempt to reverse the process of bringing back the glacier in a new form and nature. in time, according to the demand and necessity, the chambers can grow and expand sustainably thus introducing a new age landscape infrastructure redefining concepts. The glacial runoff water into a new form would set a mark in the future landscape giving a new definition of dams and their value. Spreading awareness about climate changes its impact on the ecosystem. Every storage system is supported with a built structure hosting different types of activity according to need and arrangement.
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Editor’s Choice: DEPRESSIVE COASTAL TERRITORIES DEVELOPMENT
Institution: Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Russia
By: Елена Панфилова
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Editor’s Choice: REWA - THE MANIFESTATIONS IN TIME
Institution: School of Planning and Architecture, Anna University, India
By: Jane James
Description: A design proposed in the disputed zone of Nisarpur, Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, India. For the villages battling against the construction of dams along the Narmada River. Evolved from the villagers of Nisarpur, are interventions that would uplift the village and sustain its old qualities in a new location.
Short term (influence) and long term (impact) of the thesis project :
The short term influence of the project would be the evacuation of the people from the old village to the new R&R site, about which there was much resistance since the government did not research in-depth regarding the issues of the people and provide them with solutions which would enable them to shift.
The long term impact would be the growth of the village in all aspects - social, economical, and cultural. This village would act as a nucleus empowering many other smaller villages nearby. It would become the centre of trade and economic activity, where its people would be knowledgeable and flourishing inventing new ideas and methods of working. Also, the key essence of the village “Unity without uniformity and diversity without fragmentation” would be their strength
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Editor’s Choice: COMMUNITY-BASED Devt. FOR ANNUALLY FLOOD-AFFECTED
Institution: Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh
By: তরিকুল ইসলাম অপু
Description: ” The project ‘Community-based Development for Annually Flood Affected People of Jamuna Riverbank, Sirajganj seeks to confirm that ‘The aim is “ to search a resilient solution of fishermen community in flood-prone areas and try to solve the strength of the housing and settlement pattern where suggested solution are sustainable and affordable.”
Short term (influence) and long term (impact) of the thesis project :
The short term influence of this project is that users won’t have to move to the dam during the flood with all their belongings. On the other hand, the long term impact of this project is that it will provide users with a permanent, low-cost flood resilience house and self-sufficient community.
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Best Institute for Graduation Projects: Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade
Participating Projects:
MONUMENT: LANDSCAPE : CITYSCAPE | Prosthetic Aesthetics of an Archive | PROTECTIVE STRUCTURE ABOVE TRANSEPT BASIL | THEATRE OF CULTURE - THEATRE OF LIGHT
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