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Extreme Architecture

Architecture designed for extreme environments, challenging conditions, and speculative futures.

22 Competitions 133 Projects 4 Publications 61 Journals

Changsi

The Living Refuge — A Symbiotic Sanctuary for Humans and Vanishing Pollinators

First Prize winner of the 2025 eVolo Skyscraper Competition, The Living Refuge reimagines the skyscraper as a shared ecological infrastructure for humans and endangered pollinators. Through layered habitats, environmental systems, and adaptive architectural spaces, the project explores how dense cities can support biodiversity rather than displace it.

AHMED

AL-KHASFA MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Al-Khasfa Memorial Museum is a memorial architecture project dedicated to preserving the memory of the victims of ISIS atrocities at Al-Khasfa, one of Iraq’s most devastating sites of mass execution, where approximately 20,000 people are believed to have lost their lives. More than a conventional museum, the project is conceived as an architectural act of re

Siddhi

AVATARAN - Sacred Sand and Forgotten Story: Reimagining Dholavira through Heritage Narrative

This Project reimagines Dholavira as a living heritage landscape where architecture revives the forgotten legacy of the Indus Valley Civilization through immersive storytelling. Integrating heritage conservation, sustainable tourism, and eco-sensitive design, & eco resort the project reconnects visitors with the cultural and and natural essence of Dholavira.

Mayur

COASTAL CONFLUENCE

In the shifting tides of our time, where urban expansion often overpowers the gentle rhythms of nature, Coastal Confluence proposes an integrated approach to ecological restoration and sustainable development in the fragile Thane Creek region of Navi Mumbai. This thesis explores the vital role of mangrove ecosystems in mitigating coastal erosion.

Joe and Emma

Theseus: A New Housing Typology

Theseus is a 150-bed housing project adjacent to the Port of Chelsea, MA, that repurposes cargo holds from decommissioned bulk-carrier ships, which are typically retired after just 25 years. The project addresses climate adaptation, material scarcity, and long-term housing stability.

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Rhythms of Restlessness...Neurodiverse Design for Playful Minds

This project explores how architecture can support people with ADHD through a temporal spatial framework of Focus, Escape, and Rejoin. Developed as a co-working and activity space in Siam, Bangkok, it uses sensory gradation, transition, and flexible occupation to reduce perceptual load and enable neurodiverse ways of thinking, working, and engaging.

Muhammad

THE ARK OF ASHES : Exploring Speculative Futures in Architecture

The work explores the duality of technology as both the agent of collapse and the medium of survival. Through spatial narrative and adaptive design mechanism, it envisions architecture not merely as protection from a failed world, but as a framework for renewal of a living system that learns, heals and redefines what it means to inhabit the planet after ruin

Kevin

Level Minus

Level Minus reimagines an abandoned quarry in Pune as a boutique hotel, embracing the site's void as a generator of form and experience. Embedded within the rock, the design balances carved and constructed spaces, creating a quiet dialogue with the land and lake. Architecture here adapts to terrain, revealing beauty through absence, not imposition.

Dorota

Adaptation of post-war civilian shelters

The project explores the adaptive reuse of post-war shelters as infrastructure for public safety and urban space. It reviews global models, highlights gaps in Poland’s system, and proposes a concept for the adaptation of civilian shelters that combines social use in peacetime with full protective capacity in emergencies.

Pranali

MELANGE CRAFTED SPACES FOR CURATED JOY

RECREATION CENTER CONCEPT AND VISION MELANGE means a mixture or blend, and the project embodies this idea by bringing together wellness, leisure, and community interaction under one roof. The design philosophy focuses on creating a harmonious balance between activity and relaxation, offering diverse experiences within a cohesive architectural language.

Anish

Pravah-Harmonizing Water, Culture, and Environment

Pravah explores regenerative architecture for water conservation in Poladpur, Maharashtra, integrating traditional rainwater systems with community infrastructure. It harmonizes water, culture, and environment to enhance resilience, livelihoods, and social cohesion in a high-rainfall yet water-scarce region

Borbala

Echoes of the Railway: Eco-Tourism in Chile

In Rio Blanco, Chile, an eco-tourism complex grows like a living railway, weaving timber, stone, steel and glass into resilient forms. The design dances with the mountains and river, exploring structure, craft, and the poetry of place