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Aashray – Resilience Through Preparedness

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Author: Tanvi Sagar Gujar
Site Location: Nallasopara (W)
Institute: Viva School of Architecture
Advisor: Prof. Vinita K. Kolhe

Description

The proposed Community Resilience Hub with Integrated Training Centre is envisioned as a multifunctional community infrastructure responding to the environmental, social, and infrastructural vulnerabilities of the Vasai–Virar region. Located in Nalasopara, the project addresses recurring challenges such as monsoon flooding, waterlogging, limited emergency preparedness, and the lack of accessible community training and support facilities.
The project adopts a before–during–after disaster approach, allowing the built environment to remain active and useful during normal conditions while adapting rapidly during emergencies. The integrated training centre provides spaces for skill development, disaster preparedness, awareness programs, and community capacity building. Open grounds and community spaces are designed for everyday events, gatherings, and recreational activities, while their flexible nature allows them to transform into emergency shelters and relief spaces when required.
Adaptable planning strategies, deployable units, operable partitions, passive environmental systems, rainwater management, and resilient infrastructure are integrated to support this transformation. The project therefore aims to create not merely an emergency facility, but a living community resource that strengthens preparedness, supports livelihoods, and enables collective response and recovery.


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Agni-Skandha

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Author: Kishan P. Lakhatariya
Site Location: Triveni Sangam, Chandod, Gujarat
Institute: Acharya’s NRV School of Architecture
Advisor: Asso. Prof. Pallavi Thushar Abhale

Description

Executive Summary
Agni-Skandha reimagines the Hindu crematorium from a neglected, utilitarian disposal unit into a
dignified “Sacred Infrastructure.” Situated at the confluence of the Narmada, Orsang, and Saraswati
rivers, the project addresses current spatial fragmentation, sensory chaos, and environmental
contamination caused by traditional open-pyre rites.
Design & Spatial Strategy
 High-Ground Resilience: Positioned on an 8-acre elevated site on the outskirts of Chandod to
ensure complete immunity from seasonal Narmada flood surges while de-congesting the
historical village core.
 Ritual & Bereavement Axis: Chronologically programmed around the Antyesti (last rites)
sequence, featuring sequential thresholds, dedicated Pujari zones, private mourning pavilions,
and administrative areas.
 Sensory Solace: Utilizes local stone, rammed earth, and controlled vistas toward the Triveni
Sangam to foster psychological transition from grief to acceptance.
Ecological & Technical Integration
 Integrates advanced exhaust filtration and bio-remediating ash management pools to prevent air
pollution and protect river health (Zero-Discharge).
 Blends ancient Vedic spatial philosophy with modern green technologies to create a floodresilient,
sustainable civic landmark.
The final outcome of the Agni-Skandha project will be a sustainable, flood-resilient sacred
campus situated on an 8-acre high-ground plateau that transforms traditional open-pyre rites
into a dignified civic experience. By integrating chronological ritual zoning, local stone and
rammed earth construction, and advanced zero-discharge exhaust and ash filtration systems,
the project prevents Narmada river pollution, eliminates smoke emissions, relieves spatial
congestion in historical Chandod, and provides a serene, emotionally comforting landscape
overlooking the Triveni Sangam for grieving families.


जहाँ नर्मदा, ओरसांग और सरस्वती का पावन संगम होता है,
जहाँ तीन नदियों का शांत और पवित्र मिलन होता है।
वर्षों से देखा अपनों को तड़पते, धुएँ और अव्यवस्था के बीच,
तभी जगा एक सपना, बनाने का एक पावन और शांत सुकून का मंच।
जहाँ अंतिम विदाई में दर्द तो हो, पर मन को मिले थोड़ा करार,
जहाँ प्रियजन को अलविदा कहें, शांति से भरकर अपना प्यार।
वेद-पुराणों की उस प्राचीन सीख से मिली मुझे यह प्रेरणा,
जहाँ प्रकृति स्वयं बनती है अंतिम संस्कारों की पावन चेतना।
अग्नि-स्कंध खड़ा होगा, मिट्टी और पत्थरों का आधार,
जहाँ हर विधि जुड़ी होगी प्रकृति से, बिना किसी विकार ।
बाढ़ की लहरों से टूर, एक सुरक्षित और भव्य धाम बनेगा,

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Ainmane: Where Architecture Narrates the Story of Kodagu’s Living Heritage

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Author: Punyashree P. M.
Site Location: Madikeri, Kodagu
Institute: Acharya’s NRV School of Architecture
Advisor: Prof. Fathima Samana S

Description

Ainmane is a cultural heritage and experience centre in Madikeri, Kodagu, conceived as a living platform for preserving and celebrating the region’s diverse cultural heritage. Located on an 11.3-acre commercial site near Abbey Falls Road, the project responds to Kodagu’s changing landscape and the gradual loss of traditional knowledge, livelihoods and community spaces. Rather than treating heritage as a static museum exhibit, the project brings together the people, practices and products that sustain it. The programme includes a Heritage Experience Centre, Flavours of Kodagu Experience Centre, processing and recycling units, retail spaces and worker housing. More than twenty communities of Kodagu are represented through food, crafts, beliefs, stories, festivals and everyday practices, creating opportunities for participation, learning and economic empowerment. Local agro-products such as coffee and spices are connected to processing, value addition and retail, while waste such as coffee husk and coconut residue is reused through a circular production system. Inspired by the Ainmane typology and Kodagu’s vernacular character, the architecture uses sloping roofs, Mangalore tiles, lattice stone and red-oxide finishes to create a contemporary yet rooted cultural landscape.

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Echel Sanaleibak: A Women Led Centre for Meitei Revival in Leitanpokpi, Manipur

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Author:Umapati Tonjam
Site Location: Leitanpokpi, Manipur
Institute:Piloo Mody College of Architecture
Advisor: Ar. Maitreyee Mishra

Description

In May 2023, ethnic conflict tore through Manipur, displacing over 60,000 people and destroying more than 11,000 homes — along with the courtyards, markets, and festival grounds that once held the Meitei community’s memory together.

Amidst this, Meitei women have emerged as the strongest anchors of resilience — preserving culture through craft, sustaining livelihoods, and quietly leading efforts toward healing and revival.

Echel Sanaleibak is a 5.3-acre women-led center in Leitanpokpi, Imphal East, conceived as a village rather than an institution. Inspired by the traditional Yumjao house, it unfolds as a cluster of structures in bamboo, timber, mud, and brick, engineered for Seismic Zone V. A handloom and bamboo-craft workshop, a Thang-Ta martial arts hall, a community hall for Lai Haraouba, a local market, and a prayer hall gather around a central pond, anchoring daily life the way a village tank once did. Community-based and visitor-based movement stay deliberately separate, so healing doesn’t have to happen under watch.

Where conflict broke trust, this ground offers a shared one — held, again, by the women who never stopped holding it.

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Stree Yuga – The Age of Feminine

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Author:Chethana M Jangid
Site Location: Ranisar Talab, Phalodi, Rajasthan
Institute:School of Architecture, Reva University
Advisor: Prof. Pradipta Roy Choudhury

Description

Stree Yuga: The Age of the Feminine proposes Aarani, a new architectural typology conceived as a Mytho-Spatial Archive—a space where mythology, memory, culture, and landscape are collectively preserved and experienced. Located in Phalodi, Rajasthan, the thesis explores how architecture can move beyond conventional museums and archives to become an active medium for remembering, learning, healing, performing, and gathering.
Rooted in the feminine narratives of Indian mythology and the cultural landscape of Phalodi, the project translates intangible stories, collective memories, rituals, emotions, and local traditions into spatial experiences. Rather than treating heritage as something static to be displayed, Aarani transforms memory into a participatory journey, allowing users to encounter, interpret, and contribute to cultural narratives.
The architectural language emerges through mandala-based spatial organization, circular and spiral movement, courtyards, thresholds, voids, emotional zoning, and connections to the landscape, creating a progression from individual reflection to collective expression. The project therefore becomes an architectural experiment in creating a new typology where archive, cultural landscape, learning space, performance, healing, and community coexist—positioning architecture as an evolving repository of feminine knowledge, resilience, and memory.

lic life coexist, creating a future-ready maritime hub while safeguarding the identity and livelihoods of its fishing communities.

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Macchi: Redevelopment of Sassoon Dock as Smart Maritime Hub

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Author: Umesh Santosh Lad
Site Location: Mumbai
Institute: School of Planning and Architecture, SPAV
Advisor: Dr. Prashanti Rao

Description

Mumbai’s ports and docks have played a vital role in shaping the city as India’s major maritime and commercial gateway. Among them, Sassoon Dock has historically supported fishing, trade, employment, and the livelihoods of the traditional Koli community. However, despite its economic and cultural significance, the dock today faces challenges of outdated infrastructure, poor hygiene, overlapping circulation, limited cold-chain facilities, inefficient waste management, environmental degradation, and vulnerability to climate change and rising sea levels.

While airports are modernized, metro corridors are digitized, and business districts are reimagined, traditional maritime infrastructures like Sassoon Dock remain spatially inefficient, environmentally stressed, and technologically outdated. Fish handling lacks hygienic zoning; circulation of goods and people overlaps chaotically; cold-chain integration is limited; waste disposal affects the harbour ecology. Despite being economically and culturally significant, the dock has not evolved with contemporary standards of resilience, logistics, or smart governance.

The Redevelopment of Sassoon Dock as a Smart Maritime Hub proposes a resilient, inclusive, and technologically integrated waterfront while preserving its cultural identity and traditional fishing economy. The proposal is organized into four interconnected zones: Heritage Core, Fish Market Zone, Community Spine, and Public Plaza. Adaptive reuse of cold storage building strengthens the heritage character, while upgraded fish markets, auction spaces, sorting, storage, and cold-chain facilities improve operational efficiency and hygiene.

The waterfront integrates blue-green infrastructure, including mangrove restoration, tidal wetlands, sponge landscapes, ecological buffers, and a public promenade. Smart systems for environmental monitoring, waste management, and building operations further enhance resilience.

The project envisions Sassoon Dock as a living waterfront where livelihood, heritage, ecology, and public life coexist, creating a future-ready maritime hub while safeguarding the identity and livelihoods of its fishing communities.

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The Rising Gully: A Multipurpose School & Wellness Centre

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Author: Drashti Nandu
Site Location: Dharavi, Mumbai
Institute: Aditya College of Art, Architecture & Design
Advisor:Ar. Veena Takale,
Ar. Rita Nayak

Description

In Dharavi, the street is more than a path, it is a place to work, play, gather, trade, celebrate, and
connect. Yet, within an intensely dense urban fabric, these everyday actvites compete for limited
space, open leaving the narrow gullies overcrowded and open spaces scarce. This project asks whether
can a school become more than a school, and can architecture bring the life of the street into a shared
community space?
The proposal reimagines the primary school as a multpurpose community infrastructure, designed to
remain active beyond school hours. Learning spaces transform into workshops, exhibition spaces,
markets, and gathering areas, allowing the building to respond to the changing needs of the
community. Inspired by Dharavi’s interconnected gullies, the project extends the idea of the street
vertically through a continuous green ramp, connecting ground-level actvites to accessible rooftop
spaces for play, recreation, and social interaction.
Rather than replacing the character of Dharavi, the project seeks to translate its existing social and
spatial qualities into architecture, creating a place where education, livelihood, recreation, and culture
coexist, and where community life can continue throughout the day

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Tea Experience Hub Munnar, Kerala

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Author:Muhammad Sadath
Site Location: Munnar
Institute: Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai
Advisor: Prof. Gopika Balakrishnan Nair

Description

TeaEla Tales of Munnar is an immersive tea experience hub in the Nallathanni/Nullathanni Estate, Munnar, conceived as a journey through the landscape, culture, and people behind every cup of tea.

Munnar, whose identity is deeply rooted in its tea plantations, yet the experience of tea tourism often remains limited to viewing plantations, visiting factories, and tasting tea.

At the heart of the project is equitable participation. Rather than treating the local community as an attraction, TeaEla positions plantation workers and residents as active stakeholders. Workers can share their skills, conduct workshops and participate in cultural storytelling, while local makers gain opportunities through markets and craft sales. Visitors become participants rather than passive observers, creating an exchange of knowledge, culture and experience.

The architecture responds to Munnar’s terrain and climate through green roofs, passive ventilation, filtered daylight and rainwater harvesting, creating a sustainable relationship between built form, landscape and community.

TeaEla ultimately aims to create a shared ground where visitors, workers and residents benefit equally, strengthening Munnar’s identity while creating a more sustainable and community-centered model of tea tourism.

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Another One Bites the Dust: Approaches Of Building With and For Land

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Author:Prasanna Avat Vyas
Site Location: Jamnagar
Institute: Arvindbhai Patel Institute Of Environmental Design
Advisor: Prof. Sandeep Pant

Description

Another One Bites the Dust began with a simple discomfort: Who is site responsive architecture really responding to? If architecture is built for people, what happens to everything else already living there?

The project explores an alternative way of building on a 9-acre landscape near Jamnagar, where decades of vegetation, water systems and ecological relationships already existed. Instead of beginning with buildings, the process began with observing the land, understanding its water, identifying what should remain untouched, and asking where architecture was actually needed.

This led to a landscape and an Institute of Dravyaguna where cultivation, learning, research and preservation become one continuous system. The architecture is shaped by the site through retaining walls, water networks, existing trees, stone and timber, balancing seclusion and coherence.

But the process kept opening deeper questions. Where does architecture stop and the landscape begin? What actually happens at that edge? Who decides where one ends and the other starts? If a wall can grow moss, if water can cross a boundary, if trees can outlive a building, then what makes a building separate from the landscape at all? And if the land already knew how to grow, hold water and support life without us, was architecture needed here at all?

Perhaps there is no final answer. Perhaps that is the point. Another One Bites the Dust is simply another attempt to ask better questions.

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Meanwhile at Loose Ends. Recoding The City (Fringe Force)

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Author:Aaron Desa
Site Location: Mumbai
Institute:Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, NMIMS University
Advisor:Jagdish Jani

Description

The city depends on what it simultaneously destabilizes. While our attention is Forced towards centers, infrastructure and planned development, the urban fringe quietly absorbs the pressures the formal city cannot accommodate. Rather than treating these landscapes as incomplete territories awaiting transformation, the project works with these Loose Ends to understand the fringe as an urban structure that simultaneously absorbs, produces and adapts. It argues that the fringe is not waiting to become the city – it is already a functional part of it. Its intelligence lies not in its buildings, but in the relationships that have evolved through continual negotiation between memory, ecology, economy, users and the city.

From this emerges an Architecture of Force – a design methodology that begins by understanding the systems that already sustain the city before attempting to transform them. Through a relational reading of force imbalances and urban linkages, the project identifies where existing systems become disconnected and where architectural intervention can most effectively recalibrate them. Rather than replacing urban systems, it strengthens existing relationships, balances competing forces and enables incremental adaptation, allowing the city to evolve through what already exists. Equitability emerges not from designing the same solution for everyone, but from enabling different people to participate in & benefit from the relationships that sustain one another.

Tested through Antop Hill in Mumbai, the project argues that architecture must move from designing objects to designing relationships. Instead of measuring architecture by the size of its footprint, it measures it by the reach of the relationships it enables. Each intervention begins with a local condition – work, social, religious, leisure – and recalibrates the networks through which people, places and systems depend upon one another. The architecture remains in Antop Hill, but what it enables extends far beyond it: a piece of cloth woven on the hill appears on a runway in Milan; a flower grown beside a chapel, blooms on a stranger’s balcony; a song performed in a neighborhood Khao Gully inspires a filmmaker; a seed planted in a ruined bungalow becomes part of another city’s landscape. The project asks not how large architecture is, but how far its consequences can travel.

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Rock Art Park and Museum, Blimbeth

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Author:Asmi Mehrotra
Site Location: Bhimbetka
Institute: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Advisor:Prof. Manavvi Suneja

Description


The thesis proposal for Rock Art Eco Park & Museum, Bhimbetka is envisioned as an inclusive cultural institution that seeks to make heritage accessible and meaningful to a wider public audience while simultaneously responding to the sensitive ecological and archaeological context of the site. Located within the UNESCO World Heritage landscape of Bhimbetka, the project addresses the complex relationship between conservation and public engagement through architecture.
The project responds to the idea of cultural accessibility by rethinking the manner in which heritage is experienced in India. The design of the museum aims to bridge the gap of perspectives between daily visitors, local communities and skilled professionals through interpretation.
The design adopts a conservation-oriented approach that minimizes intervention within the landscape while enhancing the visitor’s understanding of the site. Built forms remain low-rise and earth-responsive, carefully integrated into the natural terrain to preserve its archeological and ecological integrity. The proposal functions not only as a museum, but as a public space of cultural commons. Thus, the project uses architecture as a tool for cultural equity by demonstrating how heritage conservation can coexist with public accessibility and ecological custodianship.

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Re-Imagining the Coastal Harborscape of Puthiyappa, Kozhikode – Reviving the Coastal Livelihoods Through Integrated Fisheries Infrastructure

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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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Nirbhaya – An Integrated One-Stop Crisis and Destitution Support Centre

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Author: Saptargha Mitra
Site Location: West Bengal
Institute: Department of Architechture, Jadavpur University
Advisor: Prof. Madhumita Roy

Description

Echoing from the 2013 Nirbhaya case, NIRBHAYA is conceived as an architecture of equitable recovery that responds to the distinct vulnerabilities of survivors of violence and destitute women. Rather than addressing both groups through a uniform institutional model, the project establishes separate residential identities that provide safety, privacy, dignity and individual recovery, while bringing both communities together through shared but controlled spaces. The architectural journey progresses from protection and healing towards participation, empowerment and independence, allowing spaces to gradually transition from private and controlled environments to more open communal and therapeutic landscapes. Courtyards, shaded transitional spaces, water bodies and healing gardens create restorative environments that encourage connection without compromising personal boundaries. Livelihood training, skill development and community interaction extend the role of the crisis centre beyond immediate intervention, creating opportunities to rebuild confidence and agency. The project therefore views architecture not merely as shelter or infrastructure, but as an active framework for care, dignity, belonging and reintegration. Ultimately, NIRBHAYA transforms the experience of vulnerability into a gradual spatial journey towards hope, independence and freedom.

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Rehabilitation Centre for Out of School Children in Hyderabad

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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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Ruth: Imagery as a Catalyst to Evoke Bonding Between Children

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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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Intermodal Station at Tirupathi

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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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Live Work Connect- Integrated Co- Living and Co-Working Spaces for Indian Startups at Panvel, Maharashtra

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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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Centre for Environmental Revival and Social Impact

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Author: Rakshi Perween
Site Location: Delhi
Institute: Faculty of Planning & Architecture
Poornima University
Advisor: Ar. Preethi Agarwal

Description

Transformation of Okhla Landfill – Centre for Environmental Revival and Social Impact is an architectural thesis that reimagines the Okhla landfill in Delhi as a public welfare landscape for environmental revival, learning, skill development, and community engagement. The project responds to the landfill’s environmental and social impacts by proposing a transition from a polluted urban void into a regenerative public destination. Its core concept, “Nexus,” represents the interconnected relationship between the Museum, Haat Bazaar, and Vocational Training Institute (VTI), bringing knowledge, culture, skills, and community interaction into one cohesive spatial network. The Museum guides visitors through a journey from Earth formation and geological processes to landfill formation, waste impact, segregation, and ultimately land regeneration. The VTI provides hands-on learning and upcycling opportunities, while the Haat Bazaar acts as a social and economic interface where crafted and recycled products can be exhibited and sold. The landscape integrates regenerated land, plantation, kitchen gardens, composting, biogas, water-sensitive systems, and open public spaces. Together, these elements transform waste into knowledge, skills, livelihood, and ecological value.

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Narratives of Lost Links: Architectural Interpretations of Memory, Space and Community

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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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Space Matter: Ground for all

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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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