Urban Identity
How design shapes and expresses the character of cities and communities through built environment and cultural interventions.
Instant City: Archigram's Roaming Metropolis Rebuilt as a Fleet of Unfolding Cultural Modules
A fleet of autonomous modules unfolds from compact transport forms into stages, markets and cinemas, turning plazas into temporary cultural venues.
MAKER Architecten Weaves Social Housing into Kortrijk's Dense Urban Fabric with Brick and Restraint
A social housing infill in Kortrijk, Belgium, negotiates between existing rooftops, rail corridors, and neighborhood memory with quiet force.
Regional Continuities of a Diaspora People: A Cultural University That Rebuilds Sindhi Memory in Gandhidham
A Sindhi cultural university in Gandhidham reads Partition through three phases, Roundabout, Retraction and Refuge, and threads learning into the city.
Productive Organism: A Mumbai Thesis That Treats Peripheral Housing as a Tool for Ecological Repair
Amod Nargund's thesis for Marve, Malvani layers mangrove ecology, adaptive housing and water cycles into a habitat that works like a living organism.
Urban Embroidery: Stitching Mumbai's Fragmented Transit into a Living Network
A multi-scalar mobility framework reconnects metro, rail, and BRT through green corridors and reimagined public spaces at Andheri Station.
A City Knit & Fit: Turning Mumbai's Railways into Living Infrastructure
A proposal to transform over 100 hectares of Mumbai's rail corridors into layered systems of housing, water management, and green mobility.
From Vibrancy to Vacancy: Addressing the Decline of Urban Structures
“When the ‘Heart’ weeps for what it has lost, The ‘Spirit’ laughs for what it has found”
Urban Oasis: A Solar-Powered Rubik's Cube That Wants to Fix City Streets
A self-charging modular kiosk draws from the Rubik's Cube to pack seating, water purification, and digital services into one compact urban unit.
City Umbrella: Turning Dead Infrastructure into Bioclimatic Public Space
Modular canopy installations reclaim neglected urban pockets beneath flyovers and along boundary walls, offering shade, comfort, and social life.
interACT: A Wearable Transit Object That Turns Commuting Into Social Infrastructure
A backpack-mounted foldable device transforms walking, waiting, and riding into moments of shared comfort across Jakarta's transit network.
Interconnected: Centralized Hubs for a Post-War Automated Society
A speculative urban typology merges automation zones, vertical housing, and hyper-loop transit into 24-hour community hubs after societal collapse.
Urban Seed: Rooting Cities in Ecological Balance Through Agricultural Infrastructure
A conceptual framework that treats farms as urban roots, markets as branches, and open spaces as the canopy where communities gather and thrive.
