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Design approaches that minimize active heating and cooling through building envelope, orientation, and natural systems.

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Fixity in Flux

Shaping the Architecture of Transition(s)

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Mayura Bhoir _ Undergraduate portfolio _

This portfolio is a curated collection of works from my five years in architecture school, each project marking a distinct phase of learning and growth shaped by curiosity, collaboration, and a continuous drive to refine my design thinking. Together, they trace not just academic exploration but the gradual emergence of a personal architectural voice. Alongside this, the portfolio includes work from my internship, offering a glimpse into how these academic foundations found expression in professi

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Shravani

good work😍

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Aditya Bhise

Getting into different typologies looks very interesting

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The illusion of permanence: the design for disassembly framework

Traditional architecture’s focus on permanence overlooks the environmental constraints of climate urgency. Design for Disassembly (DfD) challenges this by planning buildings to be dismantled, reused, or relocated. This thesis investigates the ecological and socio-economic potentials of DfD, exploring how modularity and reversible connections shape future-oriented construction. Shifting focus from building to responsibly unbuilding redefines permanence for a sustainable lifecycle.

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Vatsal Thakkar

very interesting

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Earth Side: Between the Ground and the Returning Body

Loss is not life’s interruption but its condition. This research reimagines the hospice in Montagu, Western Cape, as a threshold rather than a terminus, mediating private, communal and inherited grief. In a South Africa where apartheid’s death geographies still shape who dies with dignity, access to care remains uneven. Moving beyond clinical models, the project foregrounds emotional, spiritual and ancestral dimensions of dying, positioning architecture as an act of care, repair and passage.

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Army Institute of Business Administration, Sylhet

A contextual and Ideology based approach to a campus design

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Honorable MentionHonorable MentionAthenaeum

THE MESH

A place for discovery, experimentation and sharing It is here, facing one of the symbols of modern architecture, the MAC Niteroi by Oscar Niemeyer, that the Athenaeum emerges, as a ground movement in the seabed. The mesh appears in the bay as an artificial topography in the landscape, inspired by the mountains surrounding the city of Rio de Janeiro

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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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Architectural Portfolio_TMR

This is my architectural portfolio.

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John Sasser Architecture Portfolio

This portfolio showcases a selection of academic projects completed throughout my first three years at Mississippi State University's School of Architecture. The work reflects the development of my architectural thinking through a wide range of representational methods, including hand drawing, digital modeling, technical documentation, and photorealistic visualization. These projects demonstrate a commitment to thoughtful design and the continual refinement of conceptual and technical skills.

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Passive Culture Center in Marra

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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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Denis Haxhnikaj-Professional Portfolio-2025

Selected architectural works.

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Slowness Drawings

The drawings in this thesis are not merely representations of physical spaces; they are tools for understanding how people experience the city through movement, pause, and care. Rather than documenting architecture alone, they capture everyday rhythms, moments of waiting, lingering, interaction, and rest that often go unnoticed in conventional urban analysis.

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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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The Shadow

By following the culture, Reviving the primitive architecture to reveal the truth about the originally culture of Morocco.

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Abode

The design is based on a sequential concept that allows for a significant impact beyond the site context. Regarding Biophilia's primary purpose of providing human wellness, the design focuses on fulfilling several personal engagement instances with nature through modular customizable

Rebe García

Great Project! Outstanding job!

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Ana Corado

Excellent proyect and creative idea. Love the graphics.

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Juror

Very complete and clear proposal. The project would have been much benefitted from a less rigid design approach in relation to the concept proposed. Great presentation

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TIME FRAME

Before our design process, we thought about elements that doesn’t change in architecture over time. We found out that the act of gathering as h and needs for protected indoor space are the everlasting characteristics of human beings. Our building contains concepts that could exist universally and flexibly over time, encompassing timelessness of a

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TULA

Balancing tropical modernism and

Nikhil Mohan
Juror

The direction of concept and design is good, but need to be presented well, presentation plays an important role in conveying your ideas. the spaces require the addition of landscape which would enhance the quality of spaces. using the traditional sloping roof with contemporary materials and detailing would have been interesting.

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Stark Lifts a Passive House Retreat Into the Canopy of British Columbia's Coast Mountains

A cantilevered timber and metal volume in Pemberton, Canada, meets Passive House Plus standards while framing Mount Currie through the trees.

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The illusion of minimalism

This article addresses contemporary minimalism in architecture. It describes a shift from spatial intensification toward material and spatial neutralisation. It contrasts Miesian reduction with market-driven standardisation. It situates the argument through Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Zumthor and Koolhaas.

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