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Dystopian Architecture

Speculative architecture exploring built environments in dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and radically transformed futures.

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The illusion of permanence: the design for disassembly framework

Traditional architecture’s focus on permanence overlooks the environmental constraints of climate urgency. Design for Disassembly (DfD) challenges this by planning buildings to be dismantled, reused, or relocated. This thesis investigates the ecological and socio-economic potentials of DfD, exploring how modularity and reversible connections shape future-oriented construction. Shifting focus from building to responsibly unbuilding redefines permanence for a sustainable lifecycle.

The illusion of permanence: the design for disassembly framework
Vatsal Thakkar

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Basma

The Commercial Ground Floor: Catalyst of an Unplanned Centrality . Jet Sakane, Agadir, Morocco

This Master's thesis in architecture examines how the commercial ground floors of collective housing blocks in the Jet Sakane neighbourhood of Agadir, Morocco, generate an unplanned urban centrality. Combining field observation, cartographic analysis, and user interviews, the research shows how appropriation practices exceed the conceived framework and transform standardised pavements into lived spaces of identity and sociability.

The Commercial Ground Floor: Catalyst of an Unplanned Centrality . Jet Sakane, Agadir, Morocco
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Moment of Stillness

Moment of Stillness is a speculative architectural thesis that explores how architecture can move beyond sustainability to become an active force for environmental regeneration. Set within South Africa's Vaal Triangle, the project reimagines abandoned industrial infrastructure as living systems capable of healing polluted landscapes. Through adaptive reuse, biomimicry, circular material systems, and speculative space manufacturing.

Moment of Stillness
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witchaya

theCLX

When the time comes, human beings will turn to respect and take power of nature for survival. A new aspect of architecture will be the driving tool for humanity to continue the race because "architecture is not just a building", but it is mechanisms of technology that mimic the ability of nature to serve the well-being of human life.

Pieter Mathews
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The site or heritage building is a seductive reminder of an apocalypse instead of faith and or complementing faith. The idea of movement works against and is paradoxical to functioning without being the parasite, e.g. it can adhere to another typology. Better visual vignettes well being would strengthen the experience.

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