Research
Design and architecture projects grounded in investigation, data collection, and evidence-based problem solving.
The Sanctum: An Earthen Urban Village for Widows and Their Families in Qandahar
A low-rise citadel of compressed mud blocks, courtyards and wind towers that turns climate response into security, learning and self-reliance.
Emergence: A Segmented Ring Habitat for Asteroid Miners Between Mars and the Belt
A shortlisted LEAP entry imagines a rotating chain of modules that grows, separates and reconnects as a deep-space mining community evolves.
A Rabat Co-(mmunity): Housing That Keeps Aging in Public View, Not Behind Closed Doors
A Co-Life winner that threads arcades, courtyards and market frontages through Rabat so older residents remain woven into the life of the city.
A Haven for Australia: A Koala Rehabilitation Centre Built to Pack Up and Move in a Single Day
Emily Newmarch and Ged Finch propose a redeployable, X-Frame modular campus that hovers on screw piles so koalas and bushland keep moving beneath it.
Salinetorium: An Adriatic Oil Rig Rebuilt in Salt That Is Designed to Dissolve Back Into the Sea
An Editor's Choice Proximity Island entry turns a retired offshore rig into a salt factory, museum and retreat whose additions slowly erode into habitat.
Proximity Island: Decommissioned Oil Rigs Recast as a Floating Museum and Research Residency
Two retired offshore rigs keep their concrete structure and gain new decks, ocean capsules and timber rooms for a museum and a residency at sea.
School of Thought: A Shortlisted School Where Air, Ground and Underground Routes Teach Through Getting Lost
Nakisa Haeri treats circulation as curriculum, using three routes, terrazzo stairs and deliberate dead-ends to make finding your way a lesson in itself.
The Vessels of the Archipelago
How Indonesia's traditional Boats carry the nation's Soul
Hourglass: A Climate Change Memorial in Egypt That Uses Sunlight as Its Warning System
A suspended field of glass, a forest of stone columns and a solar lens combine to turn global warming into a shifting, wordless experience of light.
The Green Connector: A Linear Refugee Housing Spine That Farms Its Own Roof
An elevated linear system stacks traffic, courtyard housing and a rooftop farm market to stitch divided urban territory into one shared ground.
The Intimacy of the Forest: Little Red Riding Hood Retold as a Haptic Path to a Wooden House
A winning A New Wood entry that choreographs a forest walk of nests, fires and ponds, ending in a courtyard dwelling built for touch rather than sight.
Perdu Trouvé: Learning to Inhabit the Urban Void Instead of Filling It
A shortlisted Salut Paris entry that turns a residual rail corridor into a folded civic spine of frames, hard enclosures and soft enclosures.
