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Folk Architecture

Architecture rooted in vernacular traditions, cultural heritage, and adaptive building practices.

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Hodi-Mandai Geram: A Culturally Sensitive Village for a Disappearing Ethnic Group

What if architecture reveals itself as the only vessel of memory and culture for a disappearing community? By combining Neuroscientific, Anthropological, Economic, and Psychological themes along with Participatory Community Design and Adaptive Architecture, the thesis imagines built environments that evolve with the Hodis' cultural essence.

Shahriar Pranto

This is one of those projects that makes you stop and actually think. The way you have woven the spatial logic of the village around communal rituals the fire circle, the boat routes, the tree canopy gathering space it's not just architecture, it's memory-making. The Hodi community deserves exactly this kind of care. a design that doesn't romanticize or freeze their culture in amber but gives it room to keep breathing. The image series alone tells a story that most architectural drawings never manage, really moved by this work

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Sakender Saikot

This was fantastic

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Md. Abu Nashif

Interesting outcome 👍

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REVIVAL OF TERRACOTTA:unveilling PAAL's heritage

Revitalizing Murarikati's PAAL terracotta artisan community through a modern production unit, incorporating sales exhibition opportunities. Fostering cultural preservation, women's empowerment, resilient housing, skill-based training, and community facilities, incorporating green practices, and ensuring ecological restoration.

Taposhi Islam

Great social architecture I must say.Scientific,sustainable and relevant.cultural preservation is amazing.

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Plabon Das

Impressive ju

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Tramo Ytr

It's amazing. Good job

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FLOW

"Flow" is a holistic wellness center that spatializes well-being through layered volumes and intersecting planes. Rejecting traditional closed rooms, it eliminates forced routes in favor of fluid, non-linear circulation. Strategic galleries dissolve boundaries, allowing users to experience the space freely at their own rhythm while staying connected.

Bengüsu Arık

Great project

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Lale

Wow amazing

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Serkan Aközlü

Great work amazing

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Ethnic Solidarities and the culture of commons

The aim of the design was to rework the form of the commons to develop newer aesthetics in continuation of the older type and cultural habitations of the community.

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The sensitive city

Grounded in architectural phenomenology, this article investigates the sensory foundations of urban experience, showing how the body, place, and memory shape the identity of the city beyond contemporary planning paradigms.

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Araksa Tea House

Araksa Tea Garden is situated on the foothills of the rich forest of Mae Tang, Thailand. This boutique tea garden produces high quality organic tea that achieved EU Organic certification. Simple Architecture were approached to design a Tea House by using sustainable and locally available material. The goal was to embed the building into its natural habitat.

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Spirit Ladder

As vernacular architecture is shaped by climatic conditions, the resulting forms often assume a mythical role. Exploring structures from houses to simple altars, the concept of a spirit ladder has been derived. Can the rules established for the movement of supernatural beings also be applied in a modern facility, and what role can they play?

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The idea is more like a resort than a future home concept.

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Malih Km

Wonderful job. Congratulations 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Great 👌🌹

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WOVEN WORK

Based on traditional patterns woven by Indian women, the project recalls a tradition based on manual labor as well as creative work. Because the patterns are made up of solids and voids, the project transfers them to a set of courtyards determined by the directional relationship of the weave formed by the modules and the courtyard.

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Fairy Huts (Kasollet e Zanave): Adaptive Rural Hospitality Rooted in Landscape and Tradition

Adaptive rural hospitality in Kosovo transforms farm structures with natural materials, circular gathering spaces, and sustainable community-centered design.

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