Architectural Environment
DegreeDesign and architecture projects that shape how people experience and interact with built spaces and their surroundings.
Akanksha Satpute_Architecture Portfolio
This portfolio is a reflection of how my understanding of architecture has evolved over time. It has taught me to look beyond buildings and drawings, and to appreciate how spaces are influenced by people, their routines, and everyday experiences. I enjoy translating these observations into thoughtful design and continue to approach each project as an opportunity to learn and grow.
Portfolio_Sherin Dass
This Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio presents selected works from 2022 to 2025, developed during my B.Arch at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. It spans academic studio projects, open competitions, parametric explorations, and hands-on construction — reflecting my interest in designing through logic, systems, and environment. I hope you enjoy looking through it!
Here Comes The Sun: Sustainable Architecture Reconnects Music, Landscape and Community in Montserrat
Here Comes The Sun reimagines sustainable architecture in Montserrat as a musical retreat where landscape, culture and community reconnects.
Making architecture that is really sustainable
Design for kids where 'Form Follows Climate'
The illusion of permanence: the design for disassembly framework
Traditional architecture’s focus on permanence overlooks the environmental constraints of climate urgency. Design for Disassembly (DfD) challenges this by planning buildings to be dismantled, reused, or relocated. This thesis investigates the ecological and socio-economic potentials of DfD, exploring how modularity and reversible connections shape future-oriented construction. Shifting focus from building to responsibly unbuilding redefines permanence for a sustainable lifecycle.
Aysenur Gültekin Portfolio 2026
This portfolio features a selection of projects developed during my Bachelor’s and Master’s studies at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The projects examine architectural responses to the challenges of reusing existing buildings, accommodating extraordinary functions, and creating vibrant mixed-use spaces.
Architecture as a practice of re-grounding and restoring the sensitivity of place
This dissertation counters how globalization and ocularcentrism erode spatial identity, proposing architecture as a memory-bearing palimpsest. The framework is applied to Krakow's Krowodrza district (Poland), where a historic river landscape, once shaping a green gardening area, is now a dense city centre. By revealing 'traces of (in)presence', the work revitalizes this eclipsed heritage, advocating an "architecture of re-grounding."
Army Institute of Business Administration, Sylhet
A contextual and Ideology based approach to a campus design
THE MESH
A place for discovery, experimentation and sharing It is here, facing one of the symbols of modern architecture, the MAC Niteroi by Oscar Niemeyer, that the Athenaeum emerges, as a ground movement in the seabed. The mesh appears in the bay as an artificial topography in the landscape, inspired by the mountains surrounding the city of Rio de Janeiro
Khushi Shirur portfolio 2025
This portfolio explores a range of architecture projects addressing real-world challenges across diverse global contexts. It includes Infill affordable housing, Adaptive reuse of rooftops, and Disaster relief shelter design each focusing on issues of density, sustainability, and resilience. Together, the work reflects a commitment to human-centered, practical design that responds to contemporary social and environmental needs.
Undergraduate Portfolio
This publication presents a curated selection of my undergraduate architectural work from 2021–2024 at Rachana Sansad's Academy of Architecture. It showcases a diverse range of academic projects, competitions, urban interventions, interior design, landscape design, working drawings, and research explorations. Through these works, I explore architecture as a medium for creating meaningful, context-responsive, and human-centered spaces while demonstrating my approach to design thinking.
Rooted
Architecture does not begin with form. It begins with listening— to the ground beneath, the culture around, and the materials that the land offers. These six projects span landscape and structure, wetland and mountain, urban density and open field. What holds them together is not a style. It is a conviction— that the best architecture grows from where it stands. Rooted is a body of work built on that belief.
ARCHITECTURE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE EXCAVATIONS
This thesis focuses on building an architecture that intervenes during archaeological excavations to mitigate the issue of lengthy excavation times that are not beneficial to the public. In addition, the architecture will act to protect the ancient ruins up to No.21 that are affected by the environment that occurs within the area.
The sensitive city
Grounded in architectural phenomenology, this article investigates the sensory foundations of urban experience, showing how the body, place, and memory shape the identity of the city beyond contemporary planning paradigms.
The Abode
Plants can change the look of our (abode) and the routine of our life .we shape
EVALUATING CROSS-CULTURAL COURTYARD HOUSING FOR SOCIAL WELL-BEING in Manhattan, New York
My childhood in Bangladesh inspired me to create a housing community. People avoided community spaces and lived alone in my neighborhood. Housing impacts urban life's material and immaterial components, hence it is crucial to the quality of life. My project site is East Harlem River Houses in Manhattan, New York from the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). The project’s main intention was to design an urban platform inside the existing housing masterplan to involve the public in many activities with the community facilities and make life inside the housing. The community facilities provide for a connection between the projected urban platform and the Wards Island Bridge on the Harlem River. Additionally, integrating the courtyard areas and urban platforms with the community facilities will help modernist blocks be retrofitted with extended balcony areas to make them more livable for future generations. A case for sustainability is made here in order to maintain some of the complex's current buildings with the least amount of interruption to daily life. The concept of retrofitting can serve as a model and be applied to other NYCHA locations. Another innovation was to incorporate multilevel courtyard spaces into the design of new dwelling blocks on the east side of the property to encourage occupants to use those outdoor areas. A hierarchy of different size levels is created by the expansive courtyard. The urban spaces create place-making in different ways such as- basketball courts, evolution plazas, cultural event spaces, sculpture gardens, libraries, and art galleries. The new housing block includes different sizes of dwelling units, which resemble the previous housing units. In order to encourage people to venture outside of their homes and interact in public places, the housing concept was created with an urban grid, open spaces, roadways, and connectivity with the internal common spaces.
The illusion of minimalism
This article addresses contemporary minimalism in architecture. It describes a shift from spatial intensification toward material and spatial neutralisation. It contrasts Miesian reduction with market-driven standardisation. It situates the argument through Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Zumthor and Koolhaas.
ATHENEUM
Architecture purely as a built space erected at a given plot is disappearing nowadays. We're not designing a building, but an experience. A space of exploration and an involvement . We see Atheneum as a polygon for architectural sensations – and interactive organism through which we explore and examine diverse architectural tools and phenomena.
A perfect balance, by avoiding being either a building or a landscape, by avoiding being either neutral or designed space, while at the same time managing to demonstrate basic architectural themes. An excellent concept, excellently executed and well presented.
Interesting proposal that gives something to the site and the city, and to the wider public. Would have benefited from more development of the architectural experience from within the building.
very interesting