Conservation Architecture
POSArchitecture that preserves cultural heritage, historical sites, and community identity through adaptive reuse and restoration.
UnIADA '26
The Global Benchmark for Architecture Dissertation Awards
The Zabaleen Melting Pot: Recycling as Architecture in Cairo's Informal Waste Quarter
A vertical recycling complex in Manshiyet Nasser makes waste infrastructure visible, turning material flows into public space and urban identity.
The Amber Palace Opera: A Geological Fiction Surfaces on Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
Pierre Brillard reimagines a Baltic legend as a public landscape, opera house, and waterfront promenade rooted in Tallinn's coastal identity.
Aquatic Beacon: A Modular Underwater Research Community on the Great Barrier Reef
Speculative underwater architecture positions scientific research and habitation directly within a threatened marine ecosystem off Australia's Pacific coas
Continental Shelf Recycling Habitat: Architecture Grown from Ocean Waste
A speculative underwater settlement transforms a submerged sinkhole and accumulated marine debris into the foundation for modular, expandable habitation.
Empowering Tambat Ali: Rethinking Spaces for the Coppersmith Artisans of Pune
The thesis proposes a Hybrid Campus for Pune's traditional Tambat (coppersmith) community, integrating living, working, learning, and retail spaces. The project revitalizes the historic craft ecosystem by improving artisans' working and living conditions, preserving cultural heritage, and creating opportunities for collaboration.
Tsunami Convergenics: Turning Catastrophic Ocean Forces into Underwater Housing Infrastructure
A speculative underwater settlement off the coast of Onagawa, Japan, treats tsunamis and typhoons as energy sources rather than threats.
Extended Shell: Retrofitting Kolkata's Balconies as Living Urban Thresholds
A modular retrofit system recovers the social and environmental intelligence of Kolkata's historic verandas for contemporary Park Street residents.
Revitalizing Asadganj: Bridging Trade, Heritage & Future Horizons
Asadganj is one of Chattogram’s oldest and most significant trading districts and serves as Bangladesh’s largest wholesale market for shutki (dried fish). Alongside shutki, a wide range of commodities including rice, lentils, spices, and other essential goods are traded and distributed across Chattogram and the rest of the country. Historically, the district
Magnificent Work! Keep it up
Very thoughtful and interesting project!
Inspiring transformation, where heritage meets innovation. Great vision for sustainable urban revitalization..... <3
Operative Sanctuary: Architecture Designed for Marine Life, Not Human Comfort
A speculative underwater habitat reframes sustainable architecture as ecological infrastructure for species threatened by ocean pollution.
Connection to Traditions: Pressed Earth Housing Shaped by Ghana's Climate
A residential community in Ghana uses passive ventilation, pressed earth walls, and porous courtyard planning to root sustainability in local tradition.
Conserving Modernity: A Dialogue Between Past and Future of Khulna Divisional Library
Conserving Modernity reimagines the 1964 Khulna Divisional Library as a dialogue between heritage and contemporary intervention. Guided by “Timeless Convergence,” it preserves modernist identity while introducing adaptive civic spaces that reactivate public engagement through flexible programs, cultural exchange, and climate-responsive design.
Brilliant work! Well done!
A thoughtful and well-researched heritage-led proposal that creates a meaningful dialogue between past and future. Further refinement of public access and the distinction between the existing and new architecture could make the intervention even stronger.
Thank you for the insightful feedback. I greatly value your perspective and appreciate the constructive observations, which will be helpful in further refining the proposal.
Well done! Keep up the excellent work!
Thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement. I truly appreciate your feedback and support.
Biodiversity Lab: An Underwater Habitat That Grows Like a Coral Reef
A shortlisted entry for EHC Pacific reimagines the research laboratory as a modular, coral-compatible framework on the Great Barrier Reef seabed.
Opera House in Tallinn: Two Overlapping Circles That Dissolve the Stage Door
Paweł Gala's shortlisted proposal for Opera by the Sea uses a dual-circle diagram to merge public life and performance on Tallinn's waterfront.
Swamp Capsule Camp
Darkness is starting to swallow the fields around you, until even the horizon disappears from view, but we follow north. Slowly you can see the first light come into view. The smell of the meal cooking by the fire. You have reached your home and you are safe, cradled by the lights and warmth around you.
Revitalisation of Fort II in Poznań, Poland for the needs of the Folk Dance Ensemble headquarters
The thesis proposes adaptive reuse of Fort II Stülpnagel in Poznań for the Folk Dance Ensemble. It focuses on the occupied section of Fort II, introducing light intervention with partial courtyard cover to improve usability without harming heritage. It also includes facade restoration and site improvement, aiming to open it for public cultural use.
Impresive work
Amazing idea!
Congratulations! good idea
Cylinder Park: Turning Surplus Buckets into a Modular Play System for Refugee Camps
A shortlisted entry in Re-imagining Play 2020, Cylinder Park extracts architectural potential from discarded plastic buckets to build adaptable playgrounds
Wadi Rum Observatory: Architecture That Disappears Beneath the Desert
A subterranean research center in Jordan that subtracts rather than builds, leaving the night sky and sandstone landscape undisturbed.
An exceptionally well-researched and socially grounded thesis that translates community needs into clear architectural strategies. Further development of the implementation and long-term management model could make this highly relevant proposal even stronger.
Well done! Keep up the excellent work!