World's best thesis projects in Architecture, Interior, Landscape & Urbanism
UnIATA’21 - 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. Not only in academia where they come from but the whole fraternity with it. Unfuse International Architecture Thesis Award (UnIATA 2021 - Fourth 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 have happened in the last 3 years and will bring it to the community of Uni.
Some of the Best of competition projects are:
Winning Project: Celebrating Mandvi: Architecture as a negotiator
By: Preksha Jiten
Fig: 1 Site Plan of project Celebrating mandvi
Description: Rethinking architecture constructed for and by tourism. On a larger picture, the thesis questions the idea of using architecture as a tool to package places as destinations to be sold rather than journeys to be experienced.
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Winning Project: Seeing - Herbarium, Wrocław
By: Adriana Sowa
Fig: 2 Cover image of project seeing - Herbarium, Wrocław
Description: While seeking the experience of nature, the one closest to us remains unnoticed. Human’s inability to perceive results in the loss of its part when trying to define it. Weeds spreading in every corner of the city remain unseen. Herbarium accommodates the problem by extracting wild plants from urban tissue to show their beauty and healing properties.
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Best in Region: Khlong San District Office
Fig: 3 Cover image of project Khlong San District Office
Description: "Public Space as a Democratic Infrastructure" As our viewpoints become more and more polarized than ever, correlates with the rise of digital interaction that reinforces us into the false consensus. Combined with Bangkok’s already insufficient public spaces. This thesis looks into the question of to what extent can architecture be a part of the solution?
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Best in Region: prOpencity: Where the Common Man Presides
By: Shaurya Chauhan
Fig: 4 Site image of project prOpencity: Where the Common Man Presides
Description: ‘prOpenCity’ advocates a collaborative design method for future development: one that allows rapid application with its prototypical nature and an inclusive approach with mediation between the ‘user’ and the ‘urban’. Building upon the concepts of ‘open-sourcing’ in design, this experiment establishes a user-centric design approach to the densifying city.
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Best in Region: SANRAKSHAN
By: Gayathri ACHUTHANKUTTY & Carol Anthony
Fig: 5 Human scale Views of Sanrakshan Project
Description: A Marine & Coastal Biodiversity Centre in Mumbai.
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People’s Choice: Revitalization of Ankara Castle
By: Ece Sel
Fig: 6 Cover image of project Revitalization of Ankara Castle
Description: The project gently evolved by taking references from the natural sloped landscape laying under the grand fortification walls of Ankara Castle, where the collective memory lives for centuries. The building itself became an experience that evokes the memory of the historical layers, the local people; and praises the grandness of walls by revitalizing Ankara.
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People’s Choice: FIFA Football Academy, Goa.
By: Nischay Pardeshi
Fig: 7 Aerial View of project FIFA Football Academy, Goa.
Description: A football academy extending the existing Bambolim Stadium in Goa with a future proposal of an in-house football museum. This academy will change the perspective to see a football academy due to its dynamic forms in the design. Promising a great amount of footfall and attraction to inculcate football culture like the cricket culture in India.
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Editor’s Choice: Workspace 2070
By: Asif Zeshan
Fig: 8 Site Plan of project Workspace 2070
Description: A glimpse into the future of workplace Architecture.
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Editor’s Choice: WADI RUM OBSERVATORY
Fig: 9 Cover image of project WADI RUM OBSERVATORY
Description: I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream" Vincent Van Gogh
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Editor’s Choice: Nội-Hà Mégaforme
By: Khanh Duong Pham
Fig: 10 Cover image of project Nội-Hà Mégaforme
Description: Two bridges: one new, one old fuse together to become one single living artifact. An architecture with the ambition to change completely the face of the city and how it works. The old colonial heritage bridge will be given a new life. The riverscape will be opened again to the city. A new multifunctional place will emerge. All inside one project.
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Editor’s Choice: Railway infrastructure areas as a public spaces
Fig: 11 Rail infra manifested as public spaces.
Description: Comprehensive work proves that the railway can be not an obstacle, but a part of the green frame of the city, a point of attraction for residents and tourists, a space that unites the urban fabric of two districts.
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Editor’s Choice: REINFORCING CENTRALITIES: The Case of the TE.MIGRA
By: Lilian Costa
Fig: 12 Cover image of project REINFORCING CENTRALITIES: The Case of the TE.MIGRA
Description: The Intermunicipal Multimodal Terminal in the Gradim(TE.MIGRA)located in Brazil, aims to strengthen the existing economic poles and create new centralities in the territory from the reorganization of the road network, which is a response to the current unmet demands through a proposal focused on democratic access to the city and its return to the population.
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Editor’s Choice: ARCHITECTURE FOR WELL-BEING | MARINA GLIWICE
By: Tomasz Węgrzyn
Fig: 13 Site plan of project ARCHITECTURE FOR WELL-BEING | MARINA GLIWICE
Description: MARINA GLIWICE - Tourism and water education center building designed in a way which maximally favors the well-being of its users.
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Editor’s Choice: Lazzaretto Vecchio- The Island of Cinema in Venice
By: Szymon Ciupinski
Fig: 14 Site Plan of project Lazzaretto Vecchio- The Island of Cinema in Venice
Description: The aim of this project is the revitalization of the Lazzaretto Vecchio island in Venice, a unique example of Venetian Republic’s complicated history. Designed objects are intended to support the International Film Festival in Venice, extending the event's range with Film School, Museum, and the Cinema opening onto the waters of the lagoon.
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Editor’s Choice: PORTCULLIS - DRIFTER’S ANCHOR
By: Marko Jovičić
Fig: 15 Cover image of project PORTCULLIS - DRIFTER’S ANCHOR
Description: The graphic descriptions of the vessel without a coordinate position, in the scenario of a ruined world, opens a functionalistic story about the possible establishment of a fantastic structure within realistic settings.
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Editor’s Choice: IMAGINARY LANDSCAPE
By: Sandra Draganić
Fig: 16 Collage of interior view and zoom out view
Description: GENERATING MULTIPLE REALITIES OF TERAZIJE TERRACE. The project is an interpretation of space as a landscape, where imaginative tools, as well as the eidetic content of the image, are taken as key principles of the methodology. The aim is to reconstruct the image of reality and open more possibilities of space.
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Editor’s Choice: Redevelopment of Devrai Arts Village, Panchgani
By: Deepshikha Apte
Fig: 17 Section plan of project Redevelopment of Devrai Arts Village, Panchgani
Description: This thesis topic talks about the design development of Devrai Art Village, located in Panchgani, Maharashtra where Rock Dhokra art – a unique invention born out of traditional dhokra art form is being currently developed and practiced within the artisans and craftsmen of Devrai.
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