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“Hason Raja Music School” is Aasif Nur Shadman’s final thesis project from North South University, completed in 2020. Located in Sylhet, Bangladesh, the project proposes a music school designed to revive the cultural and spiritual legacy of Hason Raja, a renowned Bengali mystic and folk musician. The aim is to reconne…

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Hasan's thesis project is situated in Bristol. His mission statement reads: Bristol’s historic docks and trade routes have shaped its economic and cultural foundations, leaving behind legacies of both connection and division, including ties to the transatlantic slave trade. The Cultural Forum aims to create a space th…

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Here is Prasad’s final design thesis, MARTERRA – Life on Mars, a deeply imaginative and thoughtful response to the question: what does it mean to feel at home on another planet? Inspired by NASA’s vision for long-term missions to Mars, He explores not just how we might survive in isolated, underground environments, bu…

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Samantha Cutler’s thesis project: 'The Digital Circus,' explores the modern-day addiction to technology, with a particular focus on the psychological grip of social media. The project transforms abstract digital experiences into a tangible, immersive world that questions our ontological relationship with the virtual.…

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Isaac Jemitola’s showcased project is his Master’s thesis, developed in his final year at the Manchester School of Architecture. The project is a socially driven proposal that explores the role of architecture in creating spaces of care, resilience, and dignity within underserved communities. Rooted in his pragmatic a…

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UNEARTH is a thesis project rooted in two critical texts: Marc Augé’s Non-Places and Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City. Both explore the concept of ‘place’—its qualities, meanings, and how it is perceived and remembered. During a visit to Whitehaven, he wandered the coastline and began noticing fragments of stone st…

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Aran’s final masters thesis project, Levelling the Playing Field is a feminist-led architectural thesis that reimagines Old Trafford Stadium as an inclusive, adaptive reuse project for Manchester United Women’s Team. Challenging the patriarchal legacy of stadium design, the proposal integrates feminist design principl…

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“Towards Dignified Living” is Samuel Lee’s final MArch thesis project, set in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. The project explores how transitional housing can reclaim space, care, and visibility for vulnerable communities living in ageing “three-nil” buildings - dense, unmanaged tenements where over 200,000 residents face u…

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These drawings are part of Greg's final undergraduate project entitled "The Septet," a Jewish Cemetery & memorial spread over two sites across the River Mersey.

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Safwan's thesis was on environmental and social design, focusing in Surat, Gujarat, India. An initial research-driven masterplan along the Tapi river consisting of landscaping elements, educational and recreational areas, and also artificially created paddy fields. The masterplan was developed as a prototype for a riv…

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In his master thesis, he investigated together with his colleague Kenan Melhem, a methodology of inscribing the notion of resilience into the architectural typology. The theoretical framework was then field-tested on a 70ha large new neighbourhood in Berlin.

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James' final year project was the Working People's Club - a skills centre situated in 1980's Birmingham on a site adjacent to the former modernist Bull Ring Centre. The WPC sought to challenge the insular and exclusive nature of Working Men's Clubs; creating a centre that channeled the WMC's more altruistic roots.