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Open Building

Architectural approaches to flexible, adaptable buildings that respond to changing needs and community participation.

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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.

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I think the overall project is pretty well worked out!

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faria49

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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Fatematuz Juhora Sharmila

Wow amazing

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Faria AkterAuthor

Thanks

Faisal Ahamed

Great work

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Faisal Ahamed

Nice

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ricardo26

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.

Khalil Taleeslami
Juror

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.

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Ricardo Ribeiro
Ricardo RibeiroProject Owner

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.

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seohuiriri

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.

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nicolas65

LUKKO

LUKKO reimagines informal settlements as vibrant neighborhoods where social interaction, economic opportunity, and everyday life coexist.

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Architecture and Design Portfolio

This is a compilation of my Academic and Internship work.

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ewabub

Community eco-village for the elderly

Alice Gardini
Juror

Il progetto è buono nel complesso, la particolare semplicità dell'impianto generale suggerisce un ulteriore approfondimento/arricchimento dell'aspetto architettonico e distributivo.

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Elena Sacco
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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

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subhan2

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.

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faridpratamanyan

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.

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dai84

The free growth of the houses in the urban village

The base is located in the city village of Shenzhen, hoping to explore a kind of residential mode which is from the city village but superior to it. It is expected that the living mode will grow freely in the mode of city village, with more space vitality, and activate the surrounding environment at the same time.

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