“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”…
This project is a “critical” answer following a theoretical study on a possible conceptual and cultural continuity between modernism and the “digital” contemporary avant-garde. In fact, if we read the…
Spaces between Places is a direct reference to an expression by Gordon Matta Clark designating leftover spaces, forgotten by both urban planners and the inhabitants themselves, on which the Chilean-American ‘anarchitect’ elaborated…
While there is an urgency for building a laboratory for interdisciplinary research on advanced fabrication for climate change in Hong Kong, the project questions how the laboratory could be redefined…
In Taiwan, hospitals are designed from the viewpoint of management, in order to manage the patients easily. But the systematic management leads to an enclosed environment. Moreover, the diagnosis and…
New urban development trends in Asia broadens the definition of gentrification of price shadowing and exclusionary displacement of lower income groups, to which state initiated urban planning funds the mega…
The project deals with a proposal for making a neighbourhood safe and sustainable habitat. The site chosen is “Mayur Vihar’ which is a residential town in east Delhi, India. Mayur vihar is…
The ruins are often an overlooked topic in historic preservation. The typical method of treatment is either full restoration or demolition. However, some ruins have gained significance in their own right and…
Task: An urban development scenario should be designed for the transitional area between Berlin-Zehlendorf and town of Teltow (Brandenburg), that solves the problems of the resulted development (strong spatial and…
Project Aim: Cultural Disease Is an urban project aim to transform a consuming street into a productive Cultural icon, which the city Tripoli, once knew for through a walkable passage that defies…
Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet.…
Large-scale regional planning and infrastructure development practices are often implemented with a virtual absence of people on the ground, creating conflict as land tenure, economic livelihoods, and the environment come…