Open Building
Architectural approaches to flexible, adaptable buildings that respond to changing needs and community participation.
Green Hill
A public building where local elderly residents can spend their free time together, creating new connections and feelings of the community. This is a pavilion with a large audience for lectures and concerts, classes for workshops and cafe in the lobby. The roof of the pavilion is a walking space with greennery.
Faria Akter - Portfolio - 2026
This portfolio showcases a selection of my academic completed throughout my undergraduate degree within the Department of Architecture at Southeast University. The projects demonstrate my passion for innovative, context-sensitive and sustainable designs that explore the relationship between people, places and the built environment. Each projects represents a step in my educational journey, highlighting the improvement of my layout techniques and innovative approach to architecture.
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Typological Re-generation of Terzo Palazzo
This project reimagines the 1973 Terzo Palazzo by Franco Albini, Franca Helg and Antonio Piva — a key building within ENI’s company town of San Donato Milanese — as a living organism capable of adapting to contemporary forms of dwelling.
A strong and well-resolved thesis that combines contextual research with an innovative approach to adaptive reuse. The integration of typology, shared living, infrastructure, and self-building creates a convincing architectural proposition.
Thank you very much! I truly appreciate your thoughtful feedback and your recognition of the ideas behind the project. It means a lot to see these aspects of the thesis acknowledged.
Abandoned Gas Stations as Urban Brownfields
As the transition to electric mobility accelerates, conventional gas stations are gradually losing their original function. High demolition and soil-remediation costs often prevent immediate redevelopment, leaving many closed stations as vacant brownfields. These obsolete infrastructures become fragmented gaps within the urban fabric, waiting for a new architectural role.
LUKKO
LUKKO reimagines informal settlements as vibrant neighborhoods where social interaction, economic opportunity, and everyday life coexist.
ASA Studio Stacks Offices and Apartments in a Naturally Ventilated Brick Tower Above Kigali's Rooftops
A five-storey mixed-use building in Kacyiru proves that local materials and passive cooling can replace air conditioning in dense urban Africa.
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very interesting concept and great project
I think coworking is the future. a future where even small creative realities can enjoy advanced facilities, which otherwise they could not afford. Together to do better.
Community eco-village for the elderly
Il progetto è buono nel complesso, la particolare semplicità dell'impianto generale suggerisce un ulteriore approfondimento/arricchimento dell'aspetto architettonico e distributivo.
Good organization of buildings and open spaces because the central path is like an "open room" in which to walk or stop. The architecture is very interesting and well represented
Community Innovation And Entrepreneurship Center
A center that aims to give the local community a place to promote and direct their ideas into real businesses and projects that support the local economy, in addition to a suitable and stimulating environment that supports creators
Rooted
Architecture does not begin with form. It begins with listening— to the ground beneath, the culture around, and the materials that the land offers. These six projects span landscape and structure, wetland and mountain, urban density and open field. What holds them together is not a style. It is a conviction— that the best architecture grows from where it stands. Rooted is a body of work built on that belief.
Form, Detail & Scale
An architectural portfolio exploring the relationship between spatial form, technical execution, and scale. Featuring a selection of institutional renovations, commercial spaces, and masterplanning projects, this collection emphasizes rigorous engineering documentation (DED), modular efficiency, and practical spatial zoning.
skimA Slots a Vertical Metal Tower into a Yeonnam-dong Brick House to Make It Mixed Use
A 292-square-meter renovation in Seoul's cafe-lined Yeonnam-dong grafts a new circulation spine onto a low-rise residential shell.
EVALUATING CROSS-CULTURAL COURTYARD HOUSING FOR SOCIAL WELL-BEING in Manhattan, New York
My childhood in Bangladesh inspired me to create a housing community. People avoided community spaces and lived alone in my neighborhood. Housing impacts urban life's material and immaterial components, hence it is crucial to the quality of life. My project site is East Harlem River Houses in Manhattan, New York from the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). The project’s main intention was to design an urban platform inside the existing housing masterplan to involve the public in many activities with the community facilities and make life inside the housing. The community facilities provide for a connection between the projected urban platform and the Wards Island Bridge on the Harlem River. Additionally, integrating the courtyard areas and urban platforms with the community facilities will help modernist blocks be retrofitted with extended balcony areas to make them more livable for future generations. A case for sustainability is made here in order to maintain some of the complex's current buildings with the least amount of interruption to daily life. The concept of retrofitting can serve as a model and be applied to other NYCHA locations. Another innovation was to incorporate multilevel courtyard spaces into the design of new dwelling blocks on the east side of the property to encourage occupants to use those outdoor areas. A hierarchy of different size levels is created by the expansive courtyard. The urban spaces create place-making in different ways such as- basketball courts, evolution plazas, cultural event spaces, sculpture gardens, libraries, and art galleries. The new housing block includes different sizes of dwelling units, which resemble the previous housing units. In order to encourage people to venture outside of their homes and interact in public places, the housing concept was created with an urban grid, open spaces, roadways, and connectivity with the internal common spaces.
THE LEARNING CUBES
The learning cubes project offers an in between recreative space around the perimeter of the building. It accommodates a system of modular panels-reconfigurable material systems
I think the overall project is pretty well worked out!