Author: Asna A S
Site Location: Puthiyappa, Kozhikode
Institute: MES College of Architecture
Advisor: Ar. Amal Mohamed Ali

Description

A harbour is more than a place where boats arrive; it is a landscape of people, labour, exchange and everyday life. Puthiyappa, one of Kozhikode’s important fishing harbours, has evolved through these rhythms for decades. Yet increasing mechanisation, spatial congestion, inadequate infrastructure and fragmented public access have created a harbour that increasingly serves its operations at the cost of the people who sustain them.
This thesis re-imagines Puthiyappa as a shared coastal commons where the fisherman, fish vendor, boat worker, migrant labourer, local resident and visitor each have a legitimate place within the harbour.
The proposal reorganises the existing harbour into an integrated network of landing, auction, processing, repair, commerce, welfare and public spaces. Heavy operational movement is separated from pedestrian life, while markets, women-centred livelihood spaces, worker amenities, community facilities and a continuous waterfront connect the working harbour back to the city.
Rather than treating infrastructure as an isolated functional requirement, the project uses it as a means to redistribute access to safer workplaces, better livelihoods, shared amenities and the waterfront itself. By building upon Puthiyappa’s existing social and economic networks, the proposal seeks not to replace the harbour, but to make more of it available to more people.

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Author: Lakshmi Ashok
Site Location: Hyderabad
Institute:Department of Architechture & Planning, College of Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Anusha Vijayan

Description

The thesis aims to explore the role of architecture as a catalyst for addressing the challenges faced by
out-of-school children and creating opportunities for recovery, learning, dignity, and hope, and how
the built environment can actively support healing, development, and social reintegration.
Challenges include trauma, educational exclusion, loss of trust, social stigma, and child labour, while
supporting the transition of children back into education, family, and society.
The design focuses on creating an integrated, child-sensitive and trauma-informed rehabilitation
environment incorporating bridge education, counselling, healthcare, skill development, transitional
residential care, recreation, and community interaction.
The complexity of the project lies in responding to the diverse needs of the children. Children vary in
age, sensitivity levels, learning level, trauma experience, privacy requirements, and degree of
independence. The architecture therefore avoids a rigid institutional model and provides flexibility in
spatial scale, sensory stimulation, degrees of openness, and interaction. Spaces are designed to
remain engaging without becoming overwhelming, allowing children to gradually gain confidence,
autonomy, and a sense of belonging.
The design adapts to the child rather than expecting the child to adapt to the institution. The project
ultimately seeks to demonstrate how architecture can contribute to a larger social impact by
transforming rehabilitation from institutional care into an empowering process of healing, learning,
participation, and reintegration.

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Author: Neha Albert
Site Location: Panvel, Maharashtra
Institute: SJB School of Architecture & Planning
Advisor: Ar. Manju Chandrasekharan Nair

Description

The project explores architecture as a catalyst for social bonding among children, investigating how visual imagery can shape the way children perceive, interact with, and engage with their surroundings.
Visual imagery is integrated into the architectural environment through colours, forms, textures, patterns, framed views, and spatial cues, encouraging observation, imitation, curiosity, creativity, and the development of personal narratives.
Architectural elements such as courtyards, gathering spaces, transitional spaces, and visual connections act as mediums that encourage children to observe, meet, play, collaborate, and learn from one another.
The implementation of these spaces aims to overcome physical, sensory, cognitive, and communication barriers, allowing children with varying abilities to connect through shared experiences.
The spaces are universally accessible through ramps, gentle level changes, multiple movement paths, varied spatial scales, quieter pockets, and spaces for both individual and collective engagement, allowing children to participate at their own pace.
The project therefore creates such an inclusive environment that, irrespective of cognitive and physical barriers, the children  unite through playing, exploring, participating, and belonging

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Author: Shubhashri. J.P
Site Location: Panvel, Maharashtra
Institute: School of Architecture and Interior Design,
SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Advisor: Dr. K. Geetha

Description

The Intermodal Station at Tirupati is conceived as a contemporary mobility hub that integrates transportation, commerce, hospitality, and public life within a cohesive urban framework. Developed on a 13.27-acre site, the proposal responds to Tirupati’s significant and fluctuating passenger volumes by creating an efficient, legible, and future-ready transit environment.
The project establishes a vertically integrated transportation podium, accommodating bus operations across two levels with passenger amenities, waiting areas, retail, and food facilities. Above the transit podium, dormitories, commercial and entertainment functions, offices, and multiple hotel categories are organized as a layered mixed-use programme. Dedicated access and circulation systems distinguish the movement of different user groups, enhancing operational efficiency, safety, and spatial clarity.
The architectural identity is rooted in movement, connectivity, and biophilic integration. Long-span structural systems create expansive, column-light terminal spaces, while branching, tree-inspired columns translate structural efficiency into a distinctive architectural expression. Strategic slab openings, skylights, and atriums introduce daylight and facilitate natural ventilation, enhancing the quality of the internal public realm.
Green terraces, vertical landscapes, landscaped courts, shaded facades, and rooftop photovoltaic systems extend the “Transit Through Nature” philosophy throughout the development. These strategies contribute to thermal comfort, environmental performance, and a stronger connection between built and natural systems.
The proposal ultimately positions the intermodal station as more than a transportation facility—a civic gateway that integrates mobility, urban activity, and nature to support Tirupati’s evolving identity and future growth.

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Author: Raghav Garode
Site Location: Panvel, Maharashtra
Institute: Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Architecture
Advisor: Prof. Monika Sharma

Description

My thesis project proposes a Co-Living, Co-Working and Connect Realm Complex designed to respond to the changing lifestyles of students, young professionals, entrepreneurs, freelancers and short-term residents. The project brings together living, working and social spaces within a connected and inclusive environment, reducing the separation between personal, professional and community life.
The co-living component provides comfortable private rooms supported by shared kitchens, lounges, recreational areas and informal interaction spaces. The co-working component includes individual workstations, collaborative areas, meeting rooms and flexible spaces that can accommodate different work patterns and user requirements. At the centre of the project, the connect realm acts as a social interface, encouraging interaction between residents, workers and visitors through courtyards, landscaped areas, multipurpose spaces and shared amenities.
The planning follows a clear hierarchy from public to semi-public, semi-private and private zones, ensuring both community engagement and personal privacy. Universal accessibility, safe circulation, clear wayfinding and gender-sensitive planning make the complex usable by people of different ages, abilities and backgrounds. Passive design strategies such as natural ventilation, daylighting, shaded outdoor spaces, landscape integration and rainwater management improve environmental performance and user comfort.
The project aims to create more than a residential or commercial building. It establishes a flexible community that supports collaboration, affordability, well-being and social connection. Through the integration of living, working and shared experiences, the complex becomes an adaptable model for inclusive and sustainable urban living.

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Author: Vaibhav Sanghani
Site Location: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Institute: School of Architecture, Anant National University
Advisor: Prof. Sandeep Paul

Description

Narratives of Lost Links explores the transformation of the abandoned Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal into a public landscape of memory, healing, and community engagement. Once the epicentre of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the 70-acre site today exists as an isolated urban void-physically disconnected yet deeply embedded within the surrounding neighbourhoods. Observing how local communities have gradually appropriated its edges despite restricted access, the project seeks to return the land to the people without erasing its painful history.
The proposal preserves the existing industrial remains as witnesses to the past while introducing a museum, memorial, and a network of community follies that reconnect the site with the city. The master plan is structured around three conceptual systems: the Axis of Catastrophe, derived from the MIC plant; the Axis of Witness, extending from the existing memorial; and the Lines of Continuity, generated from the factory’s internal road network. Together, these systems organise movement, memory, and public life across the site. Inspired by Bhopal’s identity as the City of Lakes, water bodies and elevated boardwalks weave through the landscape, allowing nature to regenerate while creating spaces for reflection, learning, and collective resilience.

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Author: Sneha Shyam
Site Location: Mumbai
Institute: Asian School of Architecture and Design Innovations
Advisor: Ar. Asish Kannan Badusha J

Description

The Space matter proposes a child-centric infrastructure system that transforms fragmented, high-density urban environments into connected and inclusive communities. The project responds to a site where high-rise towers, mid-rise housing, LIG and MIG communities, commercial edges, roads, and informal settlements exist in close proximity but remain socially and spatially disconnected.

Rather than treating play, learning, nature, and community spaces as isolated amenities, the proposal weaves them into the everyday urban fabric through a continuous network of Care Ribbons, Sky Loops, Sky Streets, Senscapes, and Community Commons. These connections transform circulation into opportunities for play, exploration, social interaction, and learning.

The elevated network bridges physical barriers created by roads and fragmented development while creating safe, pedestrian-oriented connections between different communities. Multisensory landscapes introduce sand, timber, rope, stone, planting, water, and varied levels, allowing children to engage with materials and nature through touch, movement, and exploration.

Equity is central to the proposal. The infrastructure connects HIG, MIG, LIG, and informal communities, providing shared access to play, learning, nature, and social spaces. A replicable prototype extends these principles into neighboring informal settlements. The project reimagines the city through the perspective of childhood, transforming isolated buildings into an interconnected urban community where play, learning, nature, and belonging become part of everyday life.

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