Urban Identity
How design shapes and expresses the character of cities and communities through built environment and cultural interventions.
Urban Continuum:An alternative learning ecosystem
Education has increasingly become detached from the lived realities of the city. Urban Continuum proposes an alternative model in which learning is embedded within the rhythms of everyday urban life. Instead of concentrating education inside institutional boundaries, the project distributes learning across existing neighbourhood spaces, creating an interconn
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.
This is a strong and well-structured research-driven proposal that thoughtfully reframes neglected urban edges as active social infrastructure. The connection between site analysis, physical experimentation, the spatial toolkit, and its translation from a microsite to an urban-scale application is particularly convincing. The project demonstrates a clear critical position and a good balance between social, spatial, and temporal considerations. Further empirical evidence of the long-term impact of the proposed interventions would strengthen an already compelling proposition. Overall, a thoughtful, relevant, and professionally presented project.
The project addresses a common daily problem encountered in many cities, proposing an effective and well-conceived solution. The project concept is clearly articulated and successfully translated into the drawings and models. Overall, the work demonstrates a high level of clarity, creativity and professionalism in both its academic content and presentation. At the end, I would like to thank you for your hard work and best of luck with your upcoming projects.
Dear Professor Faragallah, thank you very much for your inspiring feedback and recognition. Creating better habitations and active spaces for people within cities is a topic I am deeply passionate about. It was the central focus throughout my master's research and represents a vital future trend. Your recognition of the clarity and professionalism of my project has given me confidence as I continue exploring urban regeneration directions. I truly appreciate your kind encouragement and warm wishes!
"Transition In Need, Reconnecting Fragmented Urban Ecology", Domino Effect & Urban Rhythms
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Living the unplanned, Informal urbanism & place-making in Karachi.
The research concluded that informal urban activities are not obstacles to city development but essential contributors to Karachi's social and spatial identity. It demonstrated that top-down urban renewal and commercialization often fragment established urban ecologies by displacing informal communities without providing meaningful alternatives. The study advocates for a re-urbanism approach that recognizes and integrates everyday urban practices into future planning.
Urban design Portfolio | Spring 2026
The portfolio represents the culmination of a studio that began with an introduction to urban elements and the design of urban public spaces. The studio was founded on the premise that urban design is most effectively understood and articulated through the study and analysis of the built urban environment and its constituent elements. Structured as a series of three interconnected modules, first two showcasing case studies of urban elements and the third one, an effective design intervention.
LUKKO
LUKKO reimagines informal settlements as vibrant neighborhoods where social interaction, economic opportunity, and everyday life coexist. Instead of isolated housing blocks, the proposal creates a human-centered environment organized around shared public spaces.
Thresholds of Publicness: Rethinking Interstitial Spaces in Mumbai
Thresholds steps, plinths, verandahs are where public and private quietly meet. This research studies these in-between spaces as the living social fabric of Indian cities. As boundaries harden and land gets privatized, these porous edges are disappearing, taking everyday connection with them. Through observation and mapping, the study reads thresholds not as leftover space, but as sites of pause, exchange, and belonging. It argues that even a step or a strip of shade can hold a city together
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The in depth study of urban spaces and delicateness towards public is very promising and very nice.
Mayura Bhoir _ Undergraduate portfolio _
This portfolio is a curated collection of works from my five years in architecture school, each project marking a distinct phase of learning and growth shaped by curiosity, collaboration, and a continuous drive to refine my design thinking. Together, they trace not just academic exploration but the gradual emergence of a personal architectural voice. Alongside this, the portfolio includes work from my internship, offering a glimpse into how these academic foundations found expression in professi
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Getting into different typologies looks very interesting
Connaught Place: Re-imaging the legacy
The heritage ties of CP are threefold: physical, social and cultural. The most important factors that make it popular destination are the social and cultural activities. The legacy of CP lies in its functional value as a dynamic place for recreation. Since this area is economically active, there is a need to increase the area for commercial activities.
Continuity Through Change: Guiding Socio-Spatial Transformation to Reinforce Cultural Memory, Identity, and Everyday Urban Life in Mysuru
This thesis explores Mysuru’s historic core as a living urban environment shaped by people, culture, memory, and everyday practices. Through socio-spatial analysis, mapping, and experiential studies, the research examines how urban transformation affects the identity and character of historic areas. The project proposes context-sensitive strategies to guide change while strengthening cultural continuity, community relationships, and the everyday urban experience.
Architecture for the Soul ? SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR RESILIENT CITIES
The sensual experience of a space, gives it a prominent presence in the built environment, which connects, stays and associates with us. The idea of a People?s Place has been redefined in the intervention that celebrates an architecture that is true to the place it belongs, to its people, climate and culture. Helping OUR CITIES REGAIN THEIR LOST IDENTITIES.
Linear City
The increased presence and use of automation and artificial intelligence in society will create radical changes to the way people live and work This project provides new ways to live and work for both people with and without the skills still needed to hold a job By creating an adaptable and expandable city AI can begin to best serve the needs of everyone.
URBAN LIVABILITY
This design creates a livable, inclusive Kalidas Complex by integrating fragmented buildings into a cohesive, well-organized campus with new user-driven functions. A central pedestrian spine becomes an active public realm for movement and interaction, while permeable edges enhance accessibility, connectivity, and everyday community use.
From Sociofugal Grids to Sociopetal grounds: Third places as tools for rehumanising the industrial landscape
From Sociofugal Grids to Sociopetal Grounds explores how industrial towns, shaped by rigid zoning and mechanised planning, often foster spatial alienation and social disconnection. Through theories of sociopetality, placemaking, and third places, it investigates how neglected urban spaces can be transformed into inclusive environments that nurture interaction, belonging, and collective life.
one can see great work with pure dedication while reading this thesis.👍🏻
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The post-carbon city
Moving beyond the question of decarbonizing transport, this article investigates the post-carbon transition as a catalyst for reconfiguring urban space. It examines how changing mobility paradigms reshape metropolitan structures, public space, and territorial organization, laying the foundations for a renewed architectural and urban model.
The end of expansionary urban planning
The article shows that the future of urban planning lies in transforming existing spaces rather than expanding cities, in order to address ecological, economic, and territorial challenges.
Metabolic Infrastructure: Reimagining Dombivli Station as a Civic Catalyst
This publication explores Dombivli Station as a key urban area influenced by the intersecting dynamics of mobility, governance, informal economies, and environmental challenges. Through urban theory, site diagnosis, and layered analytical mapping, it reframes transit infrastructure not as a purely circulatory system, but as a civic condition capable of supporting more inclusive, resilient, and socially productive forms of urban life.
A thoughtful and original approach that expands learning into everyday urban life. Further exploring how this model can operate across different public spaces could strengthen its potential and impact.