Open City
Exploring how cities function as open, accessible spaces shaped by community, mobility, and cultural exchange.
Thresholds of Publicness: Rethinking Interstitial Spaces in Mumbai
Thresholds steps, plinths, verandahs are where public and private quietly meet. This research studies these in-between spaces as the living social fabric of Indian cities. As boundaries harden and land gets privatized, these porous edges are disappearing, taking everyday connection with them. Through observation and mapping, the study reads thresholds not as leftover space, but as sites of pause, exchange, and belonging. It argues that even a step or a strip of shade can hold a city together
HYPERBLOCK
"At night we know these towers by their illumination in color. These yellow, red, green, blue and white towers tell us the sector we are entering and, along the approach, light is used to see by and give us direction in ideas of lighting in rhythm with our speed". Midtown Philadelphia, Louis I. Kahn.
Portable Theater Architecture Redefines Urban Cultural Spaces in “Tale in the City”
A visionary portable theater concept transforming urban public spaces through flexible architecture, immersive art, and mobile cultural experiences.
Instant City: A Modular Architecture Approach to Mobile Urban Culture
A modular architecture system that transforms cities into dynamic cultural hubs through mobile infrastructure, participatory urbanism, and adaptive public spaces.
Encounters with the City: Transit Beyond Efficiency
This thesis, Transit Beyond Efficiency: Encounters with the City, investigates the complexities of transit in Mumbai through the lens of scale, movement, and lived experience, focusing on the relationships between transit hubs and commercial districts. The research stems from the need to question efficiency-driven urban planning that privileges vehicles and large-scale infrastructure over pedestrian inclusivity and commuter experience. Using a mixed methodology of mapping studies, commuter surveys, personal observations, and case studies of Churchgate, Lower Parel, and Bandra, the thesis reveals stark contrasts in how different transit hubs have evolved and how these differences shape the daily lives of commuters. The findings highlight that while Churchgate and Lower Parel benefit from organically developed systems, Bandra and BKC expose a mismatch between imagined urban visions and lived realities, resulting in disconnection, alienation, and infrastructural inadequacy. The outcome underscores the importance of rethinking transit infrastructure and allied systems through human scale and inclusivity, setting the stage for interventions that reframe BKC as an accessible and empathetic business district rather than a detached corporate enclave.
BENAM AJNABI-The Unnamed Strangers of Lahore
What's in a name? Exploring the Narrative of a Protest.
The VOICE in the blind noise of contemporary Lahore for the city that it was and should be....gives a name to each one of its benam ajnabi
Really great site choice. Enjoyed how this group attempted to weave a site for protest and urban circulation together.
Amazingly done. The details are impressively highlighted!
OUR INFINITE CONSEQUENCE
This project seeks to promote a space for reflection on our scale and our role in the collective space. An experience where visitors see themselves in infinity in order to perceive their place, their actions and therefore their consequences. The space only exists in our presence, that is, it exists only because of our presence.
NEW PUBLIC OPEN SPACES FOR THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
This study deals with the spaces left in the contemporary city, that is to say those empty spaces that are accidentally carried out between the building objects. These are small spaces, similar to those in which Aldo Van Eyck designs his playgrounds for the city of Amsterdam today we have to think about these spaces for the evening when people can live them
From Vibrancy to Vacancy: Addressing the Decline of Urban Structures
“When the ‘Heart’ weeps for what it has lost, The ‘Spirit’ laughs for what it has found”
Life Within 1 KM: A Walkable Microtown Planted in Moscow's Post-Industrial ZIL District
A 40-30-30 live-work-play masterplan that folds aquaponics, passive solar design, and shared workspaces into a single walkable kilometer.
Longa-polis: Diagnosing the City as a Body Under Duress
A speculative megastructure treats late-stage capitalism as a spatial pathogen, proposing an immune response built from steel, ritual, and confrontation.
N.U.M.B: Nodal Urban Mechanism for Breathing
A new neighborhood system for a frozen city
The CityGate: A Vertical City Above Moscow
A supertall hybrid tower stacking an airport, offices, shops, co-living, transit, and housing into a single structure on the Moscow River.
Awakening the Proletariat: Rethinking Urban Slums Through Inclusive Architecture
From Margins to Society: Redefining Urban Spaces for Unity and Empowerment.
SKYSCRAPER OF LIFE
The problem of vacancy in the city
Bridging the Gap
“walking through a vertical city”- A vertical connection from the skyscraper to the city
City of Hope
A city that gives hope to people by starting debates and discussions on the street.
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The in depth study of urban spaces and delicateness towards public is very promising and very nice.