2KONEY ISLANDDiploma project of equestrian and tourist complex. To create the structure of this settlement i worked out a method, which became the base of the algorithm for working on a big plot of land. Composition and functional zoning are arranged on the "Island" principle. The territory of complex is divided into three parts: center, buffer zone and periphery.
7Leveraging Socio-cultural networks - Chennai, IndiaLocal adaptation strategies across spatial scales for flood resilience in the Chennai Metropolitan Area. Ecological restoration is driven by the concept of social capital to redefine how communities interact with water in the city by integrating community infrastructures such as schools and places of workship with water bodies. Completed in July 2018.
31Honorable MentionBETA: THE PATH OF TOMORROWA place to escape from reality, not just a building, it is the main square, a public space, a place to gather, a place far away from all the political and religious issues where everyone finds a place for themselves in it.
1MEMORY OF HOMES & HOPESThe body is perforated by home (Liwans) shaped voids, representing what?s missing, while accenting towards transcendental. It rests on the site without imposing any precedence to any sides, magnetically absorbing the city from all sides towards its heart. The heart is where the light showers through the Oculus opening, offering the sky, which is still blue.
8Re.greenerationRe.greeneration is a transitional place between Aleppo?s past - present ? future, valuing as much as possible its history and relationship with the social and physical context. The project is based on the idea of the demolished building as part of the resulting/current landscape. Understanding the place as an ecosystem.
24Honorable MentionCo-ExistenceOur project proposes the reshaping of one of the important sites of the city center of Aleppo into a plaza that re-gathers people for social and cultural interactions. The design concept is to create an urban void that shapes a transitional space where visitors can experience the continuity of time, from the past into the future.
7enlightening the heritageThe project consists of a underground square, externally covered by a pure stone clad volume symbolzing a solemn monument. Approaching it, people live the space under the building, which is the real memorial. A space in the darkness broken by strong lights coming from the courts above where lights illuminate objects representing the losses brought by the war
37Museum of MemoryThe function is a museum of the City of Aleppo, a contemporary cultural center where the population can gather their collective life memory; an urban center with collective functions as: archives, library, museum center. Thinked as memory archive for the city now and in the future.
144Al RozanaA campus fostering community regrowth designed on the bases of legacy and community involvement.
34The phoenix: A community hub that rose up from the ashesThe project will comprehend a social program that offers different activities to bring a sense of social justice and cohesion to all inhabitants. We endeavored to design a city prototype in alliance with the district dynamism that could be appropriated by the residents afterward and that could adapt to different shocks and stresses as well.
4Editor's ChoiceDivide 13 - ManosThis project serves as a bridge between the wealthy Las Casuarinas community and the disfavored Pamplano Alta. The design aim to bring them together by the power of crafts. Pamplano Alta's community uses their ingenuity to produce local/ regional crafts which can then be sold and link Las Casuarinas, a wealthy community to their Peruvian identity.
8Biophilic Feng ShuiAn environmentally and spiritually-conscious way of living in the heart of Hong Kong