5156Best in RegionTLAPALTEOTL : The Lake That Refused to DieLake Texcoco once cradled Tenochtitlan; today barely 5 percent remains, drained by colonial works that read the lake as a threat. TLAPALTEOTL returns the lake to its community through purification, salt extraction, and chinampa farming, and a tower descending into its buried memory before rising to meet the water.
051URBAN LIVABILITYThis design creates a livable, inclusive Kalidas Complex by integrating fragmented buildings into a cohesive, well-organized campus with new user-driven functions. A central pedestrian spine becomes an active public realm for movement and interaction, while permeable edges enhance accessibility, connectivity, and everyday community use.
235visitors center in BerkaneThe design of the Visitors Center in the Berkane Mountains is guided by a deliberate intention to establish a strong and respectful relationship between architecture, landscape, and local culture.
052Healing Patch: An Approach Towards Carbon Negative FutureThe built environment continues to accelerate carbon emissions and ecological degradation. Healing Patch proposes a regenerative mixed-use superblock where computational optimization, renewable energy, water harvesting, and ecological systems transform urban density into a catalyst for carbon reduction, resource generation, and resilient public life.
056Continuity Through Change: Reinforcing Cultural Memory and Urban Identity in MysuruHistoric city cores evolve through change. This project explores how Mysuru's historic core can sustain cultural memory, identity, and everyday urban life through socio-spatial transformation.
94813Best in RegionThe RainThis master’s thesis reinterprets the Shenzhen Opera House brief, reimagining it as an open civic landscape shaped by the concept of “Rain,” where Shenzhen’s subtropical climate becomes a spatial system that dissolves the boundary between architecture and public space.
087Samarra’s EchoThe project proposes a **Historical Cultural Tourism Complex** in Samarra, inspired by Abbasid heritage. Located near the **Caliph's Oasis** within the **Caliph's Palace**, the design is based on a **17-degree orientation** inspired by Abbasid planning, aiming to revive Samarra's heritage and promote cultural tourism.
176A Jazz Club in the Buildings of the Former Hermanka Mill in PoznańThe project adapts historic buildings of the former Hermanka Mill in Poznań into a jazz club. The thesis combines the revitalization of post-industrial architecture with acoustics, internal insulation, structural reinforcements, local regulations, and user needs, creating a jazz center in a city that was once the Polish capital of this music.
542.4KSpecial MentionCrisis to Conservation: A Water Research & Awareness Centre for Sustainable Water Management in BangladeshHow can a water-rich nation face thirst? This project transforms architecture into a living interface between people, water, and ecology. Integrating research, education, and visible water infrastructure, it turns hidden hydrological processes into immersive spatial experiences that cultivate awareness, resilience, and sustainable futures.
285desert sawqana oasisDesert Sawqana Oasis is a sustainable resort in Karbala inspired by the Al-Sawqa’ana phenomenon, reflecting the contrast between its dry desert surface and its hidden life-filled interior. The design transforms natural rock fractures into geometric forms, creating an oasis centered on sustainability, passive cooling, and natural ventilation .
1104The Spark: A Local Activity Centre on a Former Industrial Site in WrocławThe concept of The Spark Local Activity Centre aims to initiate the transformation of the former Hutmen industrial site on Grabiszyńska Street in Wrocław, adjacent to the historic press hall and water tower. Initially conceived as a catalyst for change, the building is intended to evolve into the focal point of the regenerated neighbourhood.
20220Apartments and Climate Adaptation in MumbaiThe thesis explores how Mumbai's DCRs affect climate adaptability in apartment housing. Through comparative building studies, it reveals the loss of spatial adaptability over time and proposes a climate-responsive redevelopment framework integrating adaptable housing, flood resilience, passive environmental design, and revised planning regulations.
570THE KARAIYAGAM-ARCHITECTURE THESISKaraiyagam – Coastal Public Realm explores the transformation of the coastal edge of Mahabalipuram into a meaningful public realm that reconnects people with the sea, heritage, and local identity. The project investigates the relationship between the historic coastal landscape, fishing communities, tourism, and everyday public life.
898SELF SAFE MODULAR HOUSEA self-safe modular house is a disaster-resilient housing unit made from prefabricated modules that are easy to assemble, repair, and expand. It is designed to provide safe shelter during floods, cyclones, and earthquakes using local, sustainable materials. The house is affordable, adaptable, and suitable for vulnerable communities in disaster-prone areas .
7116From Fragility to Resilience: An Integrated Approach to Coastal Settlement on Kutubdia IslandThis thesis focuses on Kutubdia Island, where climate change is already causing severe land loss, displacement, and livelihood insecurity. Recognizing that relocation is not feasible for many residents, the study explores how architecture can support resilient, adaptive, and sustainable communities while preserving local livelihoods and social ties.
1147Rhythms of Restlessness...Neurodiverse Design for Playful MindsThis project explores how architecture can support people with ADHD through a temporal spatial framework of Focus, Escape, and Rejoin. Developed as a co-working and activity space in Siam, Bangkok, it uses sensory gradation, transition, and flexible occupation to reduce perceptual load and enable neurodiverse ways of thinking, working, and engaging.
122621An Architectural Interpretations of Memory, Space & CommunityA Case Of Bhopal Gas Tragedy - 1984
1284Epoch - The Canvas Of HumanityEpoch: The Canvas of Humanity is an innovation gallery and multicultural hub that explores how humanity and creative expression evolve through times of crisis. Through an immersive spatial journey, visitors experience the cycle of creation, disruption, and renewal, revealing how hardship shapes new identities, cultures, and ways of living.
11139THE ARK OF ASHES : Exploring Speculative Futures in ArchitectureThe work explores the duality of technology as both the agent of collapse and the medium of survival. Through spatial narrative and adaptive design mechanism, it envisions architecture not merely as protection from a failed world, but as a framework for renewal of a living system that learns, heals and redefines what it means to inhabit the planet after ruin
4135New in the Port: how to reclaim the Maritime Cultural CentreReinterpreting socialist realist architecture as a space for everyday social activity in Nowy Port (literally: "New Port"). The thesis develops a concept for the adaptation of the former Maritime Cultural Centre (MCC) in Nowy Port (Gdańsk) and the reorganisation of the district’s entrance through new development.
80723Smart Heritage Landscape: Ton Duc Thang Village on Ong Ho IslandLandscape Planning and Design of Ton Duc Thang Heritage Village Integrated with an Agricultural IoT Ecosystem on Ong Ho Island
229Revitalization of Idrakpur Fort, MunshiganjBuilt in 1660 AD by Mughal Subahdar Mir Jumla II, Idrakpur Fort is a rare surviving river fort that historically guarded Dhaka from pirate invasions via the Ichhamati and Meghna rivers. Located in the heart of Munshiganj, this national heritage site holds immense military, architectural, and cultural value. Over time, however, it has fallen victim to illegal
20499Sensescape: Rehabilitation hospital in Deir Al BalahGaza's conflict left 67,000 people needing rehabilitation. Sensescape redefines recovery — social reintegration is inseparable from physical healing. Patients and community members follow separate journeys: one clinical, one sensory — simulating loss of sight, hearing, and mobility — before both paths meet at a symbolic tree by the sea, equal and anonymous.
