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Md Shazzadul

Heritage at Risk: Reviving the Soul of Birulia – Architectural Conservation & Adaptive Reuse

Birulia's endangered heritage inspires a community-led conservation approach that balances cultural authenticity, everyday life, and climate resilience through small-scale, adaptive interventions, ensuring history remains a living foundation for the future.

Zofia

Traces of (in)presence. Revitalizing the memory of the Młynówka Królewska sites

Fighting developer pressure erasing Kraków’s Krowodrza, this project searches for authenticity and roots by activating the memory of place. Through an ephemeral trail tracing the lost Młynówka river and the permanent revival of the Modrzejówka Villa, architecture becomes a sensory, living laboratory where heritage is actively lived.

Boxia

Tulou Revitalization-A Rebirth

Rixin Tulou explores adaptive reuse through small interventions in a historic Fujian Tulou village, preserving existing traces while introducing new spaces for contemporary community life.

Siddhi

AVATARAN - Sacred Sand and Forgotten Story: Reimagining Dholavira through Heritage Narrative

This Project reimagines Dholavira as a living heritage landscape where architecture revives the forgotten legacy of the Indus Valley Civilization through immersive storytelling. Integrating heritage conservation, sustainable tourism, and eco-sensitive design, & eco resort the project reconnects visitors with the cultural and and natural essence of Dholavira.

Baoyi

Reclaiming Forgotten Urban Edges: An Experimental Approach

This project reimagines fragmented urban edges as connected public space. Developed through experimental research at Kelham Island and applied to Manchester’s Northern Quarter, it proposes a transferable toolkit of interventions to activate inactive urban fragments into continuous inhabitable environments.

Zahra

Ethnic Solidarities and the culture of commons

The aim of the design was to rework the form of the commons to develop newer aesthetics in continuation of the older type and cultural habitations of the community.

Nishat

Calibrated Revival Weaving Heritage Through Spatial Continuity

Rooted in the heritage of Dhaka Muslin, the project transforms traditional weaving environments into a contemporary space for making, learning, and cultural continuity: where heritage is experienced, practiced, and carried forward through everyday life.

Fatiha Tanjim

Beyond Rediscovery: Reclaiming Alijan Jute Mill as a Living Productive Landscape

This project transforms Narsingdi’s colonial-period Alijan Jute Mill into a river-resilient, worker-centered heritage district. Using New Contextualism, it blends production, housing, culture, and commerce into an active urban system, reconnecting the Meghna riverfront through adaptive reuse and sustainable urban regeneration.

Mehedi

Hodi-Mandai Geram: A Culturally Sensitive Village for a Disappearing Ethnic Group

What if architecture reveals itself as the only vessel of memory and culture for a disappearing community? By combining Neuroscientific, Anthropological, Economic, and Psychological themes along with Participatory Community Design and Adaptive Architecture, the thesis imagines built environments that evolve with the Hodis' cultural essence.( B.Arch Thesis)

marco

Progetto Ancora.

Beneath the asphalt, a century of industry poisoned the ground that feeds the lagoon. We remove the roads. Not to beautify. To begin. Hyperaccumulator plants draw poison from the earth, one slow season at a time. Buildings stop at their edges, not from failure, but from honesty. Progetto Ancora. Still here. Still anchored.

Shazzadul

Heritage at Risk : Reviving the Soul Of BIRULIA

Birulia, once a thriving 18th-century merchant town near Dhaka, now faces neglect with only a few heritage structures remaining. This project proposes community-led conservation, adaptive reuse, and cultural revitalization through educational, heritage, and commercial zones to preserve identity amid rapid urbanization.

Sharvil

Heritage Paradox

This dissertation aims to restore neglected structures at risk of losing their identity in modern India. It focuses on Pune's Shaniwar Wada, highlighting the restrictive impact of the heritage guidelines on development and amenities. The study proposes urban renewal strategies to enhance the monument's value, improve the heritage precinct and its management