Category: Uncategorized

The chaotic transition from a communist regime towards a democratic system has generated several urban problems where the increasing informality predominates. This project works as a strategic vision which aims to create the spatial-economic conditions for a sustainable economic growing of Tirana and to make it a distinguished metropolitan city for the emerging democracy. Through…

The chaotic transition from a communist regime towards a democratic system has generated several urban problems where the increasing informality predominates. This project works as a strategic vision which aims to create the spatial-economic conditions for a sustainable economic growing of Tirana and to make it a distinguished metropolitan city for the emerging democracy. Through…

The design proposal takes inspiration from the birch trees. The concept illustrates an abstract representation of the linear trajectory of Forest Finns assimilation in Norway, their immigration from the fist half of 1600s to the final settling. A presence of a straight line of birch trees walk through the building and calls an universal plea…

The main circulation of the building is pushed to the neighboring parti-wall. This cascading circulatory spine provides open-air vertical circulation and visual permeability through the creation of an interior façade. The courtyard created functions as welcoming arrival threshold which encourages active use and enhances the visual connection between spaces. “Between the Lines” explores small-home development…

Exhibitions as a large-scale theoretical productions of architecture are fundamentally made by a few for a few others, with little broad impact, presence or interest. Instead, more and more they attempt to communicate to a very specialized audience. But, maybe the era of exhibition is actually over? Maybe it no longer carries the urgency it…

In a rapidly changing world, remembrance appears to be one of the values that lead our civilization. We believe that remembering the goodness and grace of God needs a temple that always welcomes newcomers, their life struggles, brokenness, hopelessness, blessings, victories and transformations. In this respect, we need a structure that neither joins the long…

The WHITE ENDWe leave behind our story and simply we want to be remembered. We want to remain among lovers and friends, and certainly we want them to pass by. Our new home has to be open, white and welcoming while resembling the essence of culture and the sublimity of heaven.The White End embodies the…

The castle moat was once synonymous with isolation, an act of is­land-making. Monthe Chandeniers in no longer a fortress of solitude, impregnable to attack, but a destination. Its moat has been trans­formed from a liquid wall into a space of repose and encounter. LOCATION Monthe Chandeniers, France YEAR 2019 CLIENT YAC STATUS Competition PROGRAM Castle…

Analyzing the evolution of our civilization tells us that city is rather a new concept, yet successful. However, cities have been used as laboratories of great urban concepts which have managed to survive due to absorbing abilities of local cultures. In this respect, every culture, Sami included, is expected to react skeptical toward any major…

The stadium is conceptualized as a structure of plates which keep the contaminated soil during the overall process of remediation. The basic principle consists of excavation and removal of the polluted earth and relocating it for further treatment through a process of mycobacterial decomposition. After solidification and stabilization the soil will be capped and precise…