Contextual Architecture
Architecture designed in response to specific environmental, cultural, social, or temporal contexts rather than universal principles.
CUBE(ish)
People are in a rush between their home and workplaces. They sometimes miss the opportunity to pause, look around and feel good. At this point in-between spaces (between home and workplace) in cities draw attention. Our concept is an in-between space which creates an escape point from daily rush.
Architecture Of Time: A Steel Frame Built to Outlast the Programmes It Was Designed to Hold
An open steel frame carries plug-in concrete volumes, letting a building of workshops and markets absorb technologies that do not yet exist.
TIME FRAME: A Steel Grid Framework That Lets a Learning Landscape Absorb Decades of Change
Shelter below and gathering above: this Architecture of Time 2020 winner treats time as a material and the grid frame as an armature for future use.
Beyond the Portfolio: Building a Digital Brand for Architecture Studios
Why leading architecture studios now design two experiences, one online and one in the physical world, and how to communicate expertise long before the first client meeting.
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."
Mud, Memory and the Man-made: Reviving Sindh's Vernacular Architecture Through Contemporary Technologies
The future of Sindh's vernacular architecture lies not in choosing between tradition and modernity, but in combining the strengths of both. This research bridges indigenous knowledge, material innovation, and computational design to develop a resilient neo-vernacular construction framework.
Good job amna
Impressed by the level of detail and research you’ve put into this project 👏🏼 Kudos to you!
Great job Amana Keep it up
Beyond Rediscovery: Alijan Jute Mill’s Future
This thesis reimagines a colonial jute mill as a river-resilient, worker-centered heritage district. Using New Contextualism, it integrates production, housing, and commerce into an active urban system, transforming industrial ruins into civic spaces that reconnect the Meghna riverfront through sustainable regeneration.
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.
Heritage and Ecology: Indigenous Microclimate Strategies for Community Spaces in Southern Senegal
Southern Senegal possesses a rich tradition of climate-responsive indigenous architecture. This research reinterprets that knowledge to develop sustainable community spaces that integrate heritage, ecology, and contemporary design.
ecOASIStem
Oasis, a word that brings so many concepts to one’s mind in climatic, social, lifestyle, historical, and financial fields, thus many of our ideas came from there. An oasis is a place in a desert that contains water, supplied by a spring or another underground water source. This word is a symbol of both fear and hope. Fear of desert, dehydration, wild nature
Good job!! Beautifully designed and organized.
Excellent!👌
Wellll donee. Proud of u ♡♡♡♡♡
ROOM(S): A Scarborough School That Treats the Classroom as an Adjustable System
A shortlisted School of Thought 2020 entry that dissolves fixed classrooms into an open core of stepped platforms, modular grids and movable walls.
The Nexus: A Tetris-Logic Container Cafe in Vienna That Turns Climbing Into Conversation
Recycled shipping containers stack into a vertical coffee house near Wien Hauptbahnhof, where ladders, pockets and gaps choreograph chance encounters.
The Digital Antrho
Super clear ambition, and well presented. This accepts the notion that what man touches is no longer "nature", while offering it in different packaging, and a place of constant change. A new version of a "Watts Tower", accumulating pieces and parts over time, a construction site of parts akin to Archigram....The ground plan is a helpful, though I would question the need for such idiosyncratic form. I would encourage more directly how all the senses are activated. Thought provoking.
The Power Shift: A Knowledge Hub That Distributes Power Through Shared Space
Jai Karthick's knowledge-sharing hub pairs a glazed globe with a west-facing solar block, turning labs, forums and lawns into a civic exchange.
The Museum of Culture, Matera: A Museum Sunk Below the Relief Line and Announced Only by Light
Gleb Agapov lowers a cultural museum into Matera's stepped terrain, leaving a quiet volume above ground and sculpted light guides to mark its presence.
This is such an insightful and beautifully done piece
Good idea
Nice