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Sunken Courtyard

Recessed outdoor spaces that create sheltered, inward-focused environments within architectural designs.

51 Projects 3 Publications 46 Journals

Shashi

A Choreography of Pause and Movement, NCPA Podium Garden, Nariman Point, Mumbai

This architectural landscape project creates a sanctuary where nature intertwines with urban living, providing a secure, vehicle-free haven that enhances the everyday lives of its residents while complementing the unparalleled prestige of the NCPA setting by Shashi Prabhu Architects.

HALİME

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GREEN ALLEY

Responding to Spain’s extreme climate, this design integrates subterranean thermal mass with sustainable technology. The strategy employs limestone, oak, and photovoltaic skins to ensure thermal equilibrium. Through rainwater harvesting and Poniente breeze channeling, the central Oasis facilitates evaporative cooling, offering a resilient, ecological model.

Kevin

Level Minus

Level Minus reimagines an abandoned quarry in Pune as a boutique hotel, embracing the site's void as a generator of form and experience. Embedded within the rock, the design balances carved and constructed spaces, creating a quiet dialogue with the land and lake. Architecture here adapts to terrain, revealing beauty through absence, not imposition.

Meshva

Rethinking the urban health of heritage fringes.

The intent is to revive urban fringes in historic cities by making heritage an active part of daily life. Small, sensitive interventions using local materials and green spaces improve comfort and access without disturbing daily rhythms. Underpinning the entire project is the belief that heritage is about designing spaces that invite participation.

Abeg

Revival of Last British Rotating Stage Theatre

This project portrays the last British revolving stage theatre of Asia, which is conserved by not only re-using the structure but also maintaining urban and natural balance. The fundamentals and proportions of this project will serve the cultural and emotional aspects of the people living in that area, with the help of Dovey’s “Place Attachment Theory.”

Saly

ENTREMUROS

The project treats the walls that define the boundaries between spaces as a ground that allows the individual to retreat into a private world of their own, and at the same time as a permeable surface that enables them to connect with the community. In this context, each residential unit is surrounded by its own private garden, which can be customized accor

James

Designing co-working space

It is a design for the Co-working space that is themed with wood.

Selim

The Courtyards of Light

The idea of a building to be built underground was a very interesting subject from a design point of view. In addition, it provided the opportunity to use one of the most important elements of architectural practice. "Light".

AYAH and 3 others

GREEN HAVEN

The purpose is to create a mixed housing unit in Semarang, that provides innovative housing solutions to prevent flooding while also providing a welcoming environment for the residence and the visitors.

Konstantinos

A Traditional Escape

The concept of this project is the integration of traditional elements of the local cultures with modern approaches and the structure is meant to counter the harsh environment of the desert as well as benefit from its unique climatic conditions.

SAMRUDDHI ABHIJIT and 3 others

SANGAM

Putting forward a solution to introduce residential space into the commercial sector of a developing city without compromising the comfort level by using passive techniques in architecture.

John

George Square Park

A Conceptual Redevelopment for George Square