4WinnerForging a New Dawn - Revitalization of DarukhanaThis thesis reimagines Darukhana — Mumbai’s historic shipbreaking hub — through an urban intervention that connects community, industry, and heritage. It proposes a community center, a public promenade, a museum narrating its past, and safer, reorganized shipbreaking yards — aiming to revive the site and forge a more inclusive, dignified future.
40Runner-upTHE FORGELocated on the asteroid belt, an asteroid mining station set in the near future is home to a community of asteroid miners. Our design takes a systematic approach to settlement design at a building and urban scale. We propose an adaptive aggregated system based on complex rules to determine the arrangement of typologies in four dimensional space.
3Editor's ChoiceEREBUSThe Erebus project conceives the colonization of the asteroid belt by proposing the installation of a habitable orbital station called Erebus and a robotic surface settlement called Hades. The orbital station will be comprised of three toroidal spacecraft that will be relieved one at a time each year and a half, avoiding isolation.
14INTO THE GRAVEYARD, ALANG It is a new prototypical ship breaking facility to the ship breaking community of Alang, India that modernizes the process of shipbreaking by introducing various interconnected systems by preventing the use of traditional life-threatening methods of dismantling. The project aims at making the process safe for the labourers as well as environmentally safe.
32WinnerTHE SHIP OF THESEUS : AS A SOCIAL PLUG-IN , MUMBAIThis proposal is a device, a thought experiment, enabling the potential of an edge to be explored beyond the limitations of Mumbais industrial sprawl ambitions .For the project, Mumbai is revisited to capitalise from the economy of happinessas an alternative industry using SHIP OF THESEUS as a metaphorical protagonist for identity.
23Honorable MentionFoundation 2040Foundation 2040 is set to be the first big structure to welcome and organize the colonization of the solar system.