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47 Projects 54 Journals 23 Publications 1 Competitions

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47 projects

Nicodesign

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.

Syed Shah

"Transition In Need, Reconnecting Fragmented Urban Ecology", Domino Effect & Urban Rhythms

This thesis explores how informal place-making shapes Karachi's urban identity through the evolving spaces beneath the Malir 15 flyover. It proposes a re-urbanism approach that reconnects fragmented pedestrian movement, vendors, and public life through a connective architectural intervention, transforming neglected infrastructure into an inclusive and active

Sivasakthi

Urban Continuum: An alternative learning ecosystem

Urban Continuum transforms the city into a continuous learning environment. By dissolving the boundaries between campus and community, it creates an urban ecosystem where education emerges through everyday encounters, public participation, and shared experiences.

Baoyi

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.

Keerat

Urban Commons: Space beneath Transit Infrastructure

The thesis looked upon transit infrastructure as an extension to its locality that continuously transforms; creating spaces for newer uses. These spaces have histories of how different people have used them as a spatial resource.

Miguelangel and Kevin

HARLEM USTOPIA

Harlem Ustopia reimagines East Harlem’s future after forced displacement. From a demolished landscape, a synthetic network grows, reconnecting memory, public life, and housing through adaptive modular structures and autonomous technologies. A new community, regrown.

Tobias

Threaded City

Threaded City reimagines Harlem as a network of cultural, housing, mobility, and wellness ribbons. Inspired by jazz, the design fosters resilience, sustainability, and inclusivity, weaving together community life, nature, and innovation into a dynamic urban fabric.

Taorem

Blurring The Line:

Urban slums, having both the elasticity of slums and the staticity of urban structures tend to create a distinct line that divides them. This physically visible line is only a glimpse of the contrast between urban poor and city dwellers.

Wen

POST PANDEMIC WORK

Vertical city and vertical living circle

Andrew and Raúl

Integrated Assemblage Of Transport In Rotation

An organization of multilayered hyperloop chambers integrated in the stations structure creates an efficient cycle for maximum pod. This Hyperloop station becomes a hub of social and economic growth that promotes sustainability through advanced transit.