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Water Resources Utilization

Design approaches to managing, conserving, and integrating water systems within built environments and landscapes.

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Crisis to Conservation: A Water Research & Awareness Centre for Sustainable Water Management in Bangladesh

How can a water-rich nation face thirst? This project transforms architecture into a living interface between people, water, and ecology. Integrating research, education, and visible water infrastructure, it turns hidden hydrological processes into immersive spatial experiences that cultivate awareness, resilience, and sustainable futures.

Alina Harshi

Research-driven, context-sensitive, and socially impactful

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MD RIFAT MAHMUD
MD RIFAT MAHMUDProject Owner

Thank you

Tanai Rawal

A visionary project with strong environmental and social relevance.

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MD RIFAT MAHMUD
MD RIFAT MAHMUDProject Owner

Thank you

TM Raunak

Good

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MD RIFAT MAHMUD
MD RIFAT MAHMUDProject Owner

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Crisis to Conservation: A Water Research & Awareness Center for Sustainable Water Management in Bangladesh

"Crisis to Conservation" presents an architectural framework for sustainable water management in Bangladesh by integrating research, visible water systems, and public awareness into a resilient Water Research and Awareness Centre that bridges science, policy, and community action.

Crisis to Conservation: A Water Research & Awareness Center for Sustainable Water Management in BangladeshCrisis to Conservation: A Water Research & Awareness Center for Sustainable Water Management in Bangladesh
S M Tahasin Hossain

nice

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Abid Hasan

Good Luck

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Abid Hasan

Best Wishes

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People's Choice AwardPeople's Choice AwardRISE, RESIST, REMEMBER

LifeCycle

Water crisis is one big issue that has hit human life quietly but severely. This program is supposed to provide a collaborative way of the modern and traditional way of collecting water from nature. To be aware about this global issue and to honor the people around the world who have sacrificed their lives for this cause.

Julia King
Juror

A lot of time has been spent on developing the visual aesthetic of the fog catcher resulting in a well-designed piece. The link to protest is less well developed and feels underexplored.

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Aliza Rizvi

Awesome work!

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Aisha Khan

Great project!💖

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A Region-Specific Spatial Framework for Sustainable Water Management and Community Education in Southwest Bangladesh.

Bangladesh faces a growing water crisis due to pollution, overextraction, and inadequate management. This study proposes the country's first integrated, hydrological region-specific Water Research and Awareness Center, linking research, policy, and public education. Focused on the vulnerable Khulna region, it offers a scalable spatial model for sustainable water management and community resilience.

A Region-Specific Spatial Framework for Sustainable Water Management and Community Education in Southwest Bangladesh.A Region-Specific Spatial Framework for Sustainable Water Management and Community Education in Southwest Bangladesh.
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avik

Heal: Regenarative housing for Kerala

The designs offers a series of inside out strategies which would help affected communities deal with a flood situation and also help in recovery in the aftermath.

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unieditorial2

Waterfrom Design Turns Its Own Taipei Studio into a Manifesto of Material Intuition

A 218-square-meter office in Taipei pairs green marble floors with plywood joinery to argue that design starts with the hands, not the screen.

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Courtyards and chinampas for urban water management in Aluva

A design strategy to create a productive urban landscape with a high water retention capacity, to reduce the impact of floods and build local coping capacity.

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nilofer04

Leveraging Socio-cultural networks - Chennai, India

Local adaptation strategies across spatial scales for flood resilience in the Chennai Metropolitan Area. Ecological restoration is driven by the concept of social capital to redefine how communities interact with water in the city by integrating community infrastructures such as schools and places of workship with water bodies. Completed in July 2018.

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Lifespring

Lifespring is a recycled water loop system metaphorically express the life cycle of the tulip. All the Stormwater and street runoff are collected, filtered, and reused demonstratively after traveling through the site. The whole process is visible and full of water interaction opportunities.

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marco11

CLIMATE CHANGE & URBAN RESILIENCE / A new urban park along the final part of Aniene River in Rome

This designed space is able to respond comprehensively to the problems related to climate changes and water risk, enhancing a large urban park, underestimated by Roman citizens, and allows them its full enjoyment and maximum exploitation, finally converting the extreme natural event into an source of experience.

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The Death and Life of Water

In response to serious water issues in Jaipur, India, this project envisions an alternative way to manage the whole water life-cycle including water supply, use, disposal and rainwater harvesting, through water infrastructures as parasite, which meanwhile provide high quality of public space and educate the public through giving visibility to water process.

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URBAN WATER PLANT

India is a country where millions of its population depends on public services for daily needs. Clean water is a must for daily life. The aim of the project is to promote judicial use of water. The design focus is on simplicity, practicability and diversity in use. The careful selection of material makes it vibrant, safe and economically feasible.

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buket67

ANAMNESIS: to the future

"A Sustainable Urban Prototype"

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frialyn.deleon

Urban Regenerative Design: AGOS Water Hyacinth Research and Development Complex

Establishing service oriented architecture which promotes - industrial ecology - a system which harvests wastes as resources for production, the proposed project will serve as a restorative design strategy and holistic approach to address these urban issues and recover the degraded waterfront.

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Developing with Water - A Landscape-driven Regulatory Framework

This project initiates from questioning the limitations of planning at the scale of a site. Based on a close reading of a master plan document, it proposes a methodology to test planning documents and a new approach to improve the planning decisions.

Vaibhav Gupta

Great project

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प्रवाहः Harmonizing Water, Culture, and Environment

This thesis examines the vital relationship between water, human culture, and ecosystems, highlighting how water influences the identity, livelihood, and rituals of rural communities. Set in Poladpur, Maharashtra, a region characterized by high rainfall yet chronic water scarcity, the project addresses the ecological and infrastructural failures that underline this paradox. In response, it proposes a multifunctional rural node that combines water infrastructure, rainwater harvesting, groundwater recharge, and runoff management with community-focused spaces for gathering, health, agriculture, and learning. Drawing from traditional systems such as johads, kunds, and stepwells, the design combines indigenous knowledge with sustainable practices. Rooted in field research and local engagement, the project also tackles outmigration, declining traditions, and the loss of communal spaces linked to water insecurity. Reimagining water as both a sacred resource and social connector, the design seeks to restore ecological balance, cultural pride, and community cohesion. Crucially, the intervention creates a space for all villagers, wildlife, livestock, aquatic life, birds, and visitors, fostering a shared environment where water becomes the central unifying force, nurturing coexistence, biodiversity, and an inclusive rural future.

प्रवाहः Harmonizing Water, Culture, and Environmentप्रवाहः Harmonizing Water, Culture, and Environment
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uni.xyz

Water Drop: A Freshwater Oasis on the Bosphorus Strait

A ribbed shell monument housing a closed-loop water system, waterfalls, and lush terraces that confront the global freshwater crisis head on.

Water Drop: A Freshwater Oasis on the Bosphorus StraitWater Drop: A Freshwater Oasis on the Bosphorus Strait
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uni.xyz

Ocean Heart: A Waterfront That Desalinates, Irrigates, and Returns Water to the Sea

A solar still system and the 4R framework turn a waterfront peninsula into a self-sustaining water cycle for the urban edge.

Ocean Heart: A Waterfront That Desalinates, Irrigates, and Returns Water to the SeaOcean Heart: A Waterfront That Desalinates, Irrigates, and Returns Water to the Sea
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