Computational Design
SKLUsing algorithms, parametric tools, and data-driven processes to generate and optimize architectural and design solutions.
UnIADA '26
The Global Benchmark for Architecture Dissertation Awards
Astronaut Training Facility
About: “Astronaut Training Facility & Educational Info. Center” will be situated in Challakere, Chitradurga district of Karnataka. With the government’s foresight in earmarking this site, the project aims to bridge the gap between Earth and the cosmos, not only through its functional aspect but also as a cultural and educational beacon. Thesis 24'
The Rain
This 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.
Beegraphy Design Awards
Beegraphy's Computational Design Challenge Series
Hi, I just joined the competition and missed Workshop 1. Could you please let me know where I can find the workshop session materials or if there's a recording available?
Ashrafuz Zaman Portfolio 2026
This portfolio presents a curated collection of selected academic and architectural design works completed during my Bachelor of Architecture at Khulna University. It demonstrates my design philosophy, research methodology, technical skills, and visualization process across a range of architectural scales.
Between Fiction And Debris
This project explores how architecture can exist within fictional worlds and what that means for how we understand and design space in reality. It begins with a simple question: if a world is imagined, can its architecture still be considered real through the way it is experienced, understood, and constructed?
A highly imaginative proposal that turns waste, infrastructure, and urban uncertainty into a compelling vision for future inhabitation. Further refining the relationship between the speculative scenario and measurable systems could make the project even more powerful.
Beyond Seasonality: Adaptive Urban Interfaces for Seasonal Cruise Infrastructure
Cruise terminals are designed for movement, yet remain dormant for months each year. At Mormugao Port, this project designs for time rather than a single function, transforming seasonal transport infrastructure into an adaptive waterfront where architecture, landscape, and public life evolve with the monsoon.
The project presents an innovative idea. However, the plan illustrations lack sufficient clarity. For a project of this nature, it would have been expected to provide a clear explanation of the building's structural and covering system.
Hello ma'am Thank you for your response and feedback. Kindly refer to the 3rd sheet right side material for all structural, roof and cladding related details, exploded diagrams and structural section and joinery details etc along with details of materials and their specifications attached. I hope that answers your question?
Completely Redefined the idea of cruise terminal
Great Work!
Form Follows Data: Algorithmic Optimization in Architecture
A rigorous and original exploration of data-driven architecture, with a strong connection between computational research and design development.
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AURA LIBRARY
Aura Library transforms environmental intelligence into social architecture. Using multi-objective parametric optimization, daylight, thermal comfort, visual comfort, and energy performance become design generators for a library where knowledge emerges through interaction, collaboration, and shared human experience.
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A strong and thoughtful thesis with a well-developed computational approach. Further strengthening the link between environmental optimization and the final architectural design could make the proposal even more compelling.
Thank you for your thoughtful and constructive feedback. I greatly appreciate your insights and will certainly consider this point in further development of the project.
The Oasis Monolith: Conceptual Sculptural Villa
An organic monolithic villa exploring the fluid harmony between sculptural masses, negative spaces, and premium cinematic design.
Cultural Center in Szczecin as a reinterpretation of industrial space
This project revitalizes Szczecin’s Jaskółcza Island into a Cultural Center. Reinterpreting its 19th-century post-industrial heritage via parametric design, it creates an inclusive public space. It acts as a social catalyst, reintegrating the degraded waterfront into the city while preserving its genius loci.
A strong and well-resolved project that successfully reinterprets Szczecin’s industrial heritage as a contemporary cultural center. The contextual research, public realm, environmental strategies, flexible exhibition system, and connection to the waterfront are particularly convincing. The project establishes a clear relationship between the industrial character of the site and its new architectural identity. Further critical development of the locomotive-inspired form could make the architectural concept even more distinctive. Overall, a mature and coherent architectural proposal.
Highway as Habitat
Highway as Habitat addresses a fundamental paradox embedded in the contemporary American metropolis: highways serve as essential infrastructures of mobility, yet simultaneously fragment the urban fabric by separating movement from habitation. As cities continue to densify, this horizontal system—once a driver of expansion—has become increasingly misaligned w
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Ardavan Shelter
The Ardalan Project explores computational design through a custom parametric parapet system. Geometric rules control repetition, variation, dimensions, and component relationships, creating a flexible workflow that connects architectural intent with optimization, fabrication requirements, and final form.
Ardalan Shelter: Computational Form Finding for an Adaptive Kinetic Structure
A multi-objective design study integrating environmental data, evolutionary algorithms, kinetic systems, and responsive architecture
What a remarkable project!!!Making rain the central design concept gives it a truly unique identity and beautifully strengthens the building`s connection ti its natural surroundings!
I find the use of the water elements in the design of the buildings and the landscape very unique and inspiring
The element of rain, by the seaside, especially continuing inside the building, is an amazing idea. Inspiration and creativity beyond the usual!