20Eco-Homes: Enhancing the Urban Poor of Sattola Eco-Homes redefines housing for Dhaka’s urban poor proposing modular, affordable homes built from recycled concrete and salvaged materials, 22% cheaper than conventional. With an Anti-Eviction Grid that prevents displacement, plus courtyards, rooftop farms, and community-led design, it’s a sustainable, dignified model ready to be replicated worldwide.
36Reclaiming The MarginsReclaiming the Margins: Designing Inclusive Housing for the Harijan Community
40AABHAS -a sense of homeThey build our cities, yet live without a place in them.This project reimagines housing for migrant workers-not as shelter, but as dignity. Modular, mobile, and co-created, it moves with them, grows with them, and uplifts their families with creche, workshops, and safe spaces.A home that respects culture, empowers women, and builds community.
0VOICES IN THE BLUEPRINTThis thesis reimagines Bhola slum in Dhaka through affordable, incremental housing rooted in community needs. A masterplan of low-rise clusters, shared facilities, and revitalized waterbody integrates density, adaptability, and livelihood, creating a dignified, sustainable, and replicable urban model.
4Special MentionRunner-upDe-commodifying PeopleDe-commodifying People: A Transgressive Approach to Social Housing in Mumbai. The project aims to explore the critical need to shift our perspective on housing from a commodity to a fundamental human right, especially in the context of Mumbai's social fabric.
1Integration through COLLISIONReinterpreting the community center from a space to meet to a place to live.
41People's Choice AwardWeaved city"Our lifestyle isn't fixed, so why should our spaces be?" Weaved City brings a creative layer of personalization between the people and their dwellings through an innovative form of flexibility. The proposed housing aims to accommodate changing patterns of tenancy that aren't anticipated at the time of its construction.
20Editor's ChoiceSOCIAL_PATCHIt was to create vertically established community that would reduce the segregation of high-rise buildings by providing the flexibility to repeat the habitual life without interrupting it. Design centered on social and cultural sustainability.
0WinnerM-NastiThe idea of the project is to create a residential building where people can live and have a green house to production of their own fruit and vegetables. With solar panels, recycled water supply and greenhouses, this design is efficient and sustainable enough to support its inhabitants for long periods of time.
3WinnerCommunity eco-village for the elderlyThe goal of the project was to provide independence, a sense of belonging and close contact with nature for the elderly. Project is intended to be a modern, safe and comfortable place for residents to live, referring, however, to familiar patterns and sentiments. The space is divided into two zones: urban - bustling Italian street and rural - idyllic garden
1Best in RegionNYAC - New York Affordable CityStarting 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.
0Editor's ChoiceCollaborative Health: A Social Housing ManifestoThis project explores the social aspect of public health, and aims to create a cohesive living and working community. A variety of sports spaces and ecological spaces are set up to help residents achieve a healthy life, in a collaborative and social way.
