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Manchester School of Architecture

Manchester School of Architecture offers RIBA-listed architecture courses covering Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, based in Manchester, England.

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The Mill Quarter - A Cultural Edgeland Transforming History into a Modern Urban Oasis, submitted work by Neha Lad
The Mill Quarter - A Cultural Edgeland Transforming History into a Modern Urban Oasis · Neha Lad

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  • The Mill Quarter - A Cultural Edgeland Transforming History into a Modern Urban Oasis, submitted work by Neha Lad

    The Mill Quarter - A Cultural Edgeland Transforming History into a Modern Urban Oasis

    By Neha Lad

    Neha undertook a transformative project to revitalize a forgotten post-industrial landscape alongside the River Irwell in Greater Manchester. The site, anchored by the historic Pioneer Mill, had long been neglected, serving as a dumping ground and symbol of urban decay. The project sought to breathe new life into both…

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  • The Delta Perch: A Natural Reserve Visitor's Centre, submitted work by Anusha Bhube

    The Delta Perch: A Natural Reserve Visitor's Centre

    By Anusha Bhube

    Her final year project "The Delta Perch", is a distinctive endeavor, shaped by the interplay of natural processes and human intervention.

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  • Terra Vitae Morte, submitted work by Beatrice Tartaglini

    Terra Vitae Morte

    By Beatrice Tartaglini

    Terra Vitae Morte is Beatrice Tartaglini’s final thesis project, created with Landscape Architecture student Eve Davis at the Manchester School of Architecture. Situated in Manchester's Southern Cemetery, this contemplative structure provides a sanctuary for those processing grief, offering spaces that guide individua…

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  • Symbiosis With Nature, submitted work by Janani Sudhakar

    Symbiosis With Nature

    By Janani Sudhakar

    Symbiosis with nature is an attempt to reimagine Moston Brook, an abandoned urban greenspace in Manchester. The design conceptualizes architecture as a tool to experience the therapeutic benefits of constant interaction with nature. The design includes a micro scale neighbourhood park and a macro scale nature and yoga…

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  • High Rise BIM Project, submitted work by Alisha Menezes

    High Rise BIM Project

    By Alisha Menezes

    Alisha Menezes has demonstrated her expertise in Building Information Modelling (BIM) through her work on a high-rise building project, where she effectively utilized Revit, Dynamo, and Navisworks. In Revit, she crafted a detailed architectural model that balanced aesthetics and functionality, generating precise const…

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  • Dining on the Mancunian Way, submitted work by Izzy Gibson

    Dining on the Mancunian Way

    By Izzy Gibson

    Izzy's third year project is called 'Dining on the Mancunian Way'. The newly repurposed Mancunian Way that once blocked the city has been reimagined as a public dining table where people from different walks of life come together to break bread. From heart to stomach, Dining on the Mancunian Way is a unique experience…

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  • Lucy Hobbs, submitted work by Lucy Hobbs

    Lucy Hobbs

    By Lucy Hobbs

    This is Lucy’s final year proposal for a housing development in Withington, Manchester. The scheme promotes the idea that we are ‘better together’ through co-operative principles and shared outdoor spaces. The layout also takes inspiration from the historical context, which helps to open the site back up and encourage…

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  • Asim Hanif, submitted work by Asim Hanif

    Asim Hanif

    By Asim Hanif

    Here is Asim's final design thesis, a new transit-oriented masterplan in Milan's southern district Porta Romana, modelled in Revit and SketchUp, and visualised in Photoshop.

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  • Lewis Barker, submitted work by Lewis Barker

    Lewis Barker

    By Lewis Barker

    Lewis' final year's thesis project included of a renovation of the 18th Century Shrewsbury County Gaol, paying attention to retaining the existing listed fabrics and transforming the ex-prison from an environment of segregation and punishment to that of an environment of retreat and rehabilitation

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  • Toby Goldsmith, submitted work by Toby Goldsmith

    Toby Goldsmith

    By Toby Goldsmith

    Toby's final design thesis was a relocation and regeneration of the library and council offices in Shrewsbury, Shropshire (a medieval market town) to create a new cultural node on the fringe of the town connecting it to the local parkland. The design was led by his ateliers contextually driven ethos.

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  • Hachure, submitted work by Dara Edmondson

    Hachure

    By Dara Edmondson

    The 'Hachure' Fashion House was developed as a sanctuary to commemorate Manchester’s rich history within the textile industry that ran throughout the site of Pomona Island. Hachure is one of the only places in Manchester where fashion designers and students can utilise the runway for fashion showcases.

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  • The Belfast Collage, submitted work by David Wilkinson

    The Belfast Collage

    By David Wilkinson

    Here is David’s thesis Project ‘The Belfast Collage’. This proposal explores Colin Rowe’s theory ‘Collage City’ as a theoretical driver for design at three scales; A City Framework, Masterplan Site, A Key Public Space.

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  • Olivia Marshall, submitted work by Olivia Marshall

    Olivia Marshall

    By Olivia Marshall

    Olivia's thesis project addresses a key town centre location that has lost it’s purpose because of the relocation of public function and the decline of retail. The aim of this project is to express the identity of the town centre and establish a successful relationship to public space. Contextual in nature and develop…

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  • Sara Abekova

    By Sara Abekova

    Her Thesis project culminated in a personal and allusive Graphic Novel that tells a story of an Asylum Seeker's journey to UK Citizenship, whilst questioning the concept of 'Placeness' in this alternative realm. The work uses Symbolism as the Methodology and Personal Memory as the Research Method.

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  • Irvine Toroitich, submitted work by Irvine Toroitich

    Irvine Toroitich

    By Irvine Toroitich

    Irvine's Final project began from a city-wide analysis of the City of Milan, Italy creating a framework that integrated primary and secondary activities, helping various communities to take advantage of the pedestrian traffic that passes through the area.This was then tested out on a 40ha master plan around a wholesal…

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  • MArch Thesis - Retrofitted South Manchester, submitted work by Pragnya Thakur

    MArch Thesis - Retrofitted South Manchester

    By Pragnya Thakur

    Here is Pragnya’s final design thesis, developed at the Manchester School of Architecture (MSA). The project proposes a fabric-first design strategy — prioritising the building envelope to optimise indoor comfort and reduce reliance on traditional heating systems, while also including non-humans in the built fabric. T…

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  • Our Common Backyard, submitted work by Charlize Kam

    Our Common Backyard

    By Charlize Kam

    Here is Charlize’s final design thesis, Our Common Backyard. A series of urban interventions along Sale’s School Road that reimagine the street as a space of care, connection, and cultural blending between Hong Kong newcomers and the local Greater Manchester community, celebrating everyday encounters through shared pu…

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  • Towards Dignified Living - 邁向有尊嚴的生活, submitted work by Samuel Lee

    Towards Dignified Living - 邁向有尊嚴的生活

    By Samuel Lee

    “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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  • Levelling The Playing Field, submitted work by Aran Kamil-Thomas

    Levelling The Playing Field

    By Aran Kamil-Thomas

    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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  • The Play Patchwork!, submitted work by Hana Ahmad Baihaki

    The Play Patchwork!

    By Hana Ahmad Baihaki

    The Play Patchwork! proposes a Community-Play House as a catalyst for transformation, to address the loss of free child-led Play.

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  • UNEARTH - Saltom Pit Revival Works, submitted work by Maxwell Kemplen

    UNEARTH - Saltom Pit Revival Works

    By Maxwell Kemplen

    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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  • Sports Activated Community Regeneration, submitted work by Isaac Jemitola

    Sports Activated Community Regeneration

    By Isaac Jemitola

    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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  • Welcome, to The World of The Digital Circus., submitted work by Samantha Cutler

    Welcome, to The World of The Digital Circus.

    By Samantha Cutler

    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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  • Play Space Utopia, submitted work by Jacqueline Lau

    Play Space Utopia

    By Jacqueline Lau

    My project showcases an experimental concept investigating the factor of “play” in architectural design for the older generation with dementia in Hong Kong. While understanding dementia from an elderly perspective and learning about dementia care home design guidelines, I have come to realise that a lot of the existin…

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  • AROCALYPSE, submitted work by Oleh Ivashko

    AROCALYPSE

    By Oleh Ivashko

    In his Dezeen-featured thesis, Oleh explores a dystopian future constructed around Augmented Reality (AR), which eventually collapses. This imagined world must then be rebuilt from its digital ruins, framing the thesis as an adaptive reuse project extrapolated onto a future timeline. By utilising a range of computatio…

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  • Nexus Tomorrow, submitted work by Winston Leung

    Nexus Tomorrow

    By Winston Leung

    This is Winston’s group final design thesis for a protected walk path in Manchester based in a post nuclear apocalypse environment called “Nexus Tomorrow”. This is designed to protect civilians who have emerged from bunkers and reconnect with the city through an elevated public space including transportation and progr…

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  • The Centre for Post-Industrial Ecology, submitted work by Jamie Knowles

    The Centre for Post-Industrial Ecology

    By Jamie Knowles

    Jamie's final year project, 'The Centre for Post-Industrial Ecology', draws upon nature's resilient inhabitation of industrial space to inform a lasting and greener site use for both human and non-human visitors. A scheme of multiple purposes, the wider site aims to increase local biodiversity by minimising disturbanc…

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  • The City Playhouse, submitted work by Syamin Amira Muriddan

    The City Playhouse

    By Syamin Amira Muriddan

    Winner of the LandSec Flux Award 2025, her thesis project, "The City Playhouse"—developed in collaboration with LandSec U+I—reimagines underused urban spaces as vibrant community hubs. By framing play as a tool for collective authorship, the project demonstrates her ability to unite architectural vision with social an…

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  • The Sporting Factory, submitted work by Yinka Malik Fashola

    The Sporting Factory

    By Yinka Malik Fashola

    Here is his final design thesis for a Cultural and Sports Hub in Crewe, positioned adjacent to the Mornflake Stadium. The project reconnects Crewe Alexandra FC with the community through youth training, rehabilitation, public courts, and a plaza, informed by urban analysis and matchday crowd mapping to create inclusiv…

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