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Jovana and Ivan

Gamelan Music Visitor Center

The Gamelan Music Visitor Center explores the connection between music and architecture through rhythm, resonance, and movement. Designed as an extension of sound, the space combines performance, education, and interaction, creating an immersive and collective experience inspired by the atmosphere of gamelan music.

Ana and Ivan

PALM TRACE - A Linguistic and Cultural Experience Center

ALM TRACE is a cultural and linguistic experience center in Jakarta inspired by Aksara script and lontar manuscripts. The project translates writing into space through movement, layered experiences, palm gardens, workshops, and water infrastructure, celebrating the cultural significance of the palm in Indonesia.

Kaankshi

A Case In Atoning Compulsive Indulgence

It is to be an experimental model in the urban to speculate the intervention, which in turn develops an allegory between the consumerist mindset and the transformed behaviour of recycling and upcycling. This is to act as a public interface to re-envision the isolated system as an innovation process and an experience for the city.

TARIK and Beste

Nexus Arena

Nexus Arena transforms e-sports from a screen-based activity into a physical and public experience. Organized around movement and circulation, the project blurs the boundaries between spectator and player through interactive spaces and screens, integrating gaming culture into everyday urban life.

Aarush

Encounters with the City:Transit Beyond Efficiency

This thesis critiques BKC as an inhuman corporate enclave privileging cars over people. It proposes a masterplan with three buildings that weave everyday city programs into BKC, reclaiming ground for pedestrians, adding amenities, and reintroducing human scale to create an inclusive civic district.

Naz and Demir

Dissolve

Our project in Boa Vista aims to create a sustainable cultural hub that preserves and promotes local traditions. Concrete topographic masses form shaded spaces for markets, performances, and workshops. Above, modular units that are carried by a structural steel grid offer lodging for artists and visitors.

Akib

Design of A Commercial High Rise Building

The concept focuses on capturing serene views of Hatir Jheel from various angles through a vertical extrusion. The design maintains a connection between users by incorporating connecting floors and open spaces. This allows users to experience the beauty of the Jheel while enjoying elevated breakout spaces, blending architectural form with the natural landsc

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THE GREEN BELT

The proposed learning center offers a greenery that is circulating the overall building so as to provide the students and the residents of the neighbourhood intertwine. The concept of the open-semi open-closed spaces provides a transparent and vibrant space sequence. This aspect offers a powerful bond between the local residents and the students and the tut

Sandra

A space of dialogue between the living and the dea

The concept of a crematorium for agnostics with colonnaries and therapeutic gardens

Djurdja and Ivan

UNIVERSAL PLAYGROUND

Educational pavilion complex with a focus on learning about safe debate and open dialogue through PLAY. The idea is to deal with social problems and politics with a creative and humoristic point of view, with an aim of educating and bringing people together.

Mihajlo and Ivan

The Hyde park colloseum

This is an neo classical project about bringing back the colosseum into a new age.

Durdija and Ivan

SPEAKERS’ CORNER NEWSPAPER

The proposed idea involves establishing an underground newspaper production within the confines of Hyde Park in London, with a specific emphasis on traditional printing methods such as woodcuts, linocuts, and engravings.