Conservation Architecture
POSArchitecture that preserves cultural heritage, historical sites, and community identity through adaptive reuse and restoration.
Conserving Modernity: A Dialogue Between Past and Future of Khulna Divisional Library
Conserving Modernity reimagines the 1964 Khulna Divisional Library as a dialogue between heritage and contemporary intervention. Guided by “Timeless Convergence,” it preserves modernist identity while introducing adaptive civic spaces that reactivate public engagement through flexible programs, cultural exchange, and climate-responsive design.
Nexus
Located on the borders of the city's historical extension and in the modern city center, the project serves as a meeting point, connection, and communication hub. This connection is related not only to space but also to time. The project revitalizes the city's spirit and cultural memory. It creates a privileged center between movement and void.
Offhand Practice Folds a Natural History Cabinet of Curiosities into a Concrete Shell at Aranya Guangzhou
A 155 m² specimen shop at Jiulong Lake, Guangzhou, where walnut cabinetry and collected antiques sit inside raw concrete without pretending to be old.
LBWA Renovates a 1930s Modernist Villa in Poznań by Keeping Its Original Floors and Tuning Rooms to the Sun
Next to Poznań's Abisynia estate, a 220 m² interwar villa gets limestone, green marble and brass, laid quietly over its surviving floors and joinery.
Urban Renewal of Historic Core of Vrindavan
The main aim of the Thesis is to explore the possibility to revive the Urban Morphology of a historic town- Vrindavan, lost in the process of urbanization. It intends to come up with Urban Renewal model for historic core of religious settlements respecting the sacred environment while facilitating the socio cultural economic development of local communities.
Commendable job, very well researched
Amazing work!❤
Good job keep it up
Atempo Arquitectura Turns a Cuenca Family House into a Multi-Unit Residence Crowned in Brick Lattice
In Cuenca, Ecuador, a 415 m² family home becomes a residential complex where scrolled ironwork, terracotta lattice and a skylit stair keep memory alive.
MACh Architects and Connatural Build a Park-Territory to Help Córrego do Feijão Stay Rooted After the Dam Collapse
In Córrego do Feijão, Brazil, a slatted lookout tower, brick halls and stone gardens give a community scarred by disaster a reason to remain.
UnIADA '26
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Studio Kennon Wraps a Portsea Family House Around a Light Court Built to Weather the Southern Ocean
In Portsea, a three-part house of board-formed concrete, lime render and salvaged Sorrento limestone is designed to age with salt air.
Bastidas Architecture Turns a Former Printing Press in Artà into a Courtyard Family Home
In Artà, Spain, a 700 m² former printing press becomes a family home organised around an arcaded courtyard, a narrow pool and a single palm tree.
The Zabaleen Melting Pot: Recycling as Architecture in Cairo's Informal Waste Quarter
A vertical recycling complex in Manshiyet Nasser makes waste infrastructure visible, turning material flows into public space and urban identity.
Beczak / Beczak / Architekci Wraps a Multigenerational Konstancin House Around a Courtyard Among Pines
In Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland, a sintered-stone house turns away from the street and opens a semi-atrium courtyard to a wooded slope.
graciastudio Adds Steel and Board-Formed Concrete to a Historic House in Mexico City's Colonia Roma
In Mexico City's Roma neighborhood, Casa Tonalá restores a patterned historic facade and threads a black steel stair through a concrete light well.
The Amber Palace Opera: A Geological Fiction Surfaces on Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
Pierre Brillard reimagines a Baltic legend as a public landscape, opera house, and waterfront promenade rooted in Tallinn's coastal identity.
Aquatic Beacon: A Modular Underwater Research Community on the Great Barrier Reef
Speculative underwater architecture positions scientific research and habitation directly within a threatened marine ecosystem off Australia's Pacific coas
Continental Shelf Recycling Habitat: Architecture Grown from Ocean Waste
A speculative underwater settlement transforms a submerged sinkhole and accumulated marine debris into the foundation for modular, expandable habitation.
Empowering Tambat Ali: Rethinking Spaces for the Coppersmith Artisans of Pune
The thesis proposes a Hybrid Campus for Pune's traditional Tambat (coppersmith) community, integrating living, working, learning, and retail spaces. The project revitalizes the historic craft ecosystem by improving artisans' working and living conditions, preserving cultural heritage, and creating opportunities for collaboration.
An exceptionally well-researched and socially grounded thesis that translates community needs into clear architectural strategies. Further development of the implementation and long-term management model could make this highly relevant proposal even stronger.
Well done! Keep up the excellent work!
Tsunami Convergenics: Turning Catastrophic Ocean Forces into Underwater Housing Infrastructure
A speculative underwater settlement off the coast of Onagawa, Japan, treats tsunamis and typhoons as energy sources rather than threats.
Brilliant work! Well done!
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A thoughtful and well-researched heritage-led proposal that creates a meaningful dialogue between past and future. Further refinement of public access and the distinction between the existing and new architecture could make the intervention even stronger.
Thank you for the insightful feedback. I greatly value your perspective and appreciate the constructive observations, which will be helpful in further refining the proposal.
Well done! Keep up the excellent work!
Thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement. I truly appreciate your feedback and support.