Slumscraper
Architecture and design interventions in informal settlements and working-class urban neighborhoods.
Rethinking Urban Slums
This project proposes a new vision for addressing Iraq’s informal housing crisis through a realistic, human-centered approach. Rather than demolition and displacement, it promotes incremental, in-place interventions that empower residents, address social and economic challenges, and create a sustainable model for inclusive urban development.
LUKKO
LUKKO reimagines informal settlements as vibrant neighborhoods where social interaction, economic opportunity, and everyday life coexist.
Heim Balp Architekten and Pablo Pita Arquitectos Revive a Porto Workers' Village as 40 Hospitality Units
A labyrinthine 19th-century working-class 'ilha' in central Porto finds new clarity through subtraction, oak, and a muted grey palette.
Studio McW Turns a Narrow Clapham Terrace into a Raw Concrete Framework for Family Life
A Victorian terraced house in south London is gutted and rebuilt around an exposed concrete skeleton that redefines every room.
Eco-Homes: Enhancing the Urban Poor of Sattola
Eco-Homes redefines housing for Dhaka’s urban poor proposing modular, affordable homes built from recycled concrete and salvaged materials, 22% cheaper than conventional. With an Anti-Eviction Grid that prevents displacement, plus courtyards, rooftop farms, and community-led design, it’s a sustainable, dignified model ready to be replicated worldw
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O.U.V.R.A.G.E.S Converts a Brussels Neighborhood Restaurant into Adaptable Housing
In Watermael-Boitsfort, a former restaurant becomes a set of evolving dwellings that grow with their inhabitants over time.
SL House by AE-architecten: Transforming a Family Home in Ghent
SL House by AE-architecten transforms a 20th-century Ghent home into a flexible, light-filled family residence with contemporary interventions.
Container Skyscraper at Dharavi, Mumbai
A modular high-rise housing vision for Dharavi that rethinks density, sustainability, and affordability through container-based architecture.
Container Skyscaper at Dharavi, Mumbai
The Design is seeking to explore and investigate the possibility of a relatively adequate temporary housing solution for dwellers of the densely populated Dharavi, area ? a city within a city. The design or concept should be one that is inspirational and of high quality tall construction using used-shipping containers as building modules.
EARTH-SCRAPER " AN UTOPIAN HABITAT
New ideas have evolved in the architecture, that recognise today's issues caused due to mass urbanisation, which are designed in a way that they help to build a better future. The project is an attempt to show the SURREAL design idea which can deal with the problems of mass urbanisation, climate change, lack of land in city for future development.
Earth-scraper - An utopian habitat
This thesis project is an attempt to show the SURREAL design idea which can deal with the problems of mass urbanisation, climate change, lack of land in city for future development and to shatter the paradigm of Human perception for an underground space. The design challenge addresses to Myth and problems faced by an underground space architecturally.
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De-commodifying People
De-commodifying People: A Transgressive Approach to Social Housing in Mumbai. The project aims to explore the critical need to shift our perspective on housing from a commodity to a fundamental human right, especially in the context of Mumbai's social fabric.
SKLON: A Curving Climatic Envelope That Rethinks Youth Housing in Moscow
Bioclimatic geometry meets communal living as a sculptural arc deflects wind, captures light, and redefines the urban hostel typology.
Redressing the disparities: Redevelopment in urban slum by resolving social exclusion
This paper was created a term ahead of my thesis term. It helped created a basis for the topic of my thesis. The paper reflects on issues such as rent disparities, social exclusion, gendered differences among the Urban Poor of Dhaka.
Sliding House: Modular Architecture That Transforms Daycare by Day into Housing by Night
A multigenerational building in Bremen where sliding modules convert private living quarters into kindergarten spaces each morning.
Skyscraper of Life: Modular Adaptive Reuse Turns Warsaw's Dead Office District Into a Living Tower
A prefabricated, spine-mounted modular system transforms Warsaw's abandoned Mordor district into a vertical community that grows and contracts on demand.
Cliffscraper: A Skyscraper Carved from Santorini's Volcanic Cliffs
Instead of building upward with steel and concrete, this project excavates vertical living spaces from the caldera's ancient rock face.
A strong and socially relevant thesis with a clear human-centered position. Further development of implementation strategies could make this thoughtful urban approach even more impactful.
Well done! Keep up the excellent work!