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383 / Priyanka Mukherjee: Linguistic Labyrinth

Submission #383 | Priyanka Mukherjee: Linguistic Labyrinth — “The lack of information on the origin of languages leads to the necessity of preservation center, lack of knowledge and data on the languages leads to the necessity of research center, the lack of the system of derivation leads to the necessity of conservation center and the lack of awareness on this field leads to the necessity of a learning center, library, museum, exhibition, and gallery.”

375 / Jonathan Bonezzi and Ryan Lane: Collaged Collections

Submission #375 | Jonathan Bonezzi and Ryan Lane: Collaged Collections — “145,000 sqft. the new art museum at 106-72 marginal street, Boston; culminates contemporary ideas in architecture about allure, collage, and collections as ideological drivers for the spatial and representational design process of the project. thinking about the irresolute and the misaligned and the unknown; the project looked towards contemporary ideas about allure and collage to produce deceptions and irregularities in the project to draw the user in. we pose to question in this post-digital age of architecture what it means to be simultaneously object and field.”

366 / Poyao Shih: Bifurcate: Rethinking Taipei Railway Museum

Submission #366 | Poyao Shih: Bifurcate: Rethinking Taipei Railway Museum — “This thesis challenges existing models of traditional preservation by introducing the idea of the formal difference between old and new, public and private space. The introduction of formal difference into the renovation creates new spatial conditions within the existing structure which can then be viewed with a new perspective. The project deals with the renovation of a railway factory located in Taipei, Taiwan, which was the largest workshop of Taiwan Railways Administration.”

365 / Ernesto Medina: Castelvecchio Composite

Submission #365 | Ernesto Medina: Castelvecchio Composite — “After visiting and photographing this 14th-century castle restored by the great Carlo Scarpa in the 1950s, an analytical drawing was produced in order to understand the many motifs carried out by the architect when renovating this military construction in order for it to now work as a museum; one that would not only reflect history through the exhibits on display but also through the exposed architectural details of the building itself.”

350 / Ghaith Alrahwanji: Museum of the Syrian Civil War

Submission #350 | Ghaith Alrahwanji: Museum of the Syrian Civil War: “The aim of the museum is to showcase the major impacts from the heavy war through architectural representations in this beautiful old building. A story telling of an ongoing story. Please note that this project is not a memorial, it is not a biased approach toward any political views, or anything related to ethics or cult or a group of people.”

277_Kevin Garcia: Dendrite Olympic Museum

Submission #277 | Kevin Garcia: Dendrite Olympic Museum — “Architectural adaptations can provide us with the vessels in which evolution and reflection can propel society towards a unified front. With history as our guide we push forward towards the future. Seeking opportunities for growth as well as reflection. With the recent announcement that Salt Lake City, Utah would submit a bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics, we look towards the future.”

264_Onur Koyun: [IDTM]

Submission #264 | Onur Koyun: [IDTM] — “In terms of todays evolving museum typology, Istanbul Natural History Museum, aims for the visitors to feel sensations that they have never felt before, as well as a cultural and scientific tour. The developing technology and evolving virtual reality are aiming to show the parts of nature that can not be told in books as, swimming with sharks, racing with a cheetah by bicycle and being caught in a whale.”

249_Andrea Molina: ONCE UPON A TIME IN ALCORCÓN

Submission #249 | Andrea Molina: ONCE UPON A TIME IN ALCORCÓN — “The name of my project is ONCE UPON A TIME IN ALCORCÓN, cause its main purpose is to transform an obsolete industrial state into an advanced neighbourhood recalling the history of the place through the proposed architectural interventions in its public space.”

214_Iryady Redzuan: Georgetown Design Cultivation Museum

Submission #214 | Iryady Redzuan: Georgetown Design Cultivation Museum — "Collective Space + Reflexivity Order; The principal of collective space in architecture is to inspire regarding the introversion of public experience towards a building, the intervention on how people interact with the space, and how the space then interacts with the world."

163_Deborah Garcia

Submission #163 | Deborah Garcia; SCI-Arc: This Is Not Your Thing — All museums construct ideal paths through a collection of objects, and construct particular ways of seeing. This cultural phenomenon of viewing art in such specifi c ways is a clear remnant of a longer history of cultural consumption laden with the rituals and decorum of an out-dated dialectic betwen the museum and architecture, between art and its container.

107_​Houman Khosravi​: Music for Housing

Submission #107 | Houman Khosravi​: Music for Housing — "The first exercise of of the semester was to craft a conceptual construct based on design intuition as well as my preconceived notions and views of London. Using mechanical found objects, I created three scenarios to build off of, each would become its own construct."

74_Daniel Rebolledo: Nuevo Circo de Caracas

Daniel Rebolledo: Nuevo Circo de Caracas — This was an academic project that was set on a historic landmark which is the Nuevo Circo de Caracas, and old slaughter house in the late 19th century, and was refurbished and transformed into the new bull fighting ring and biggest venue place in the early 20th century. The building was abandoned for several years as bull fighting became less popular over time.

10_Arooj Ahmad and Georgia Ntoukaki: Lost Memories of Glasgow

Arooj Ahmad and Georgia Ntoukaki: Lost Memories of Glasgow — The project is essentially an exploration into the memories left behind by buildings that are now derelict, under-used and ignored. How architecture today can capture the essence of the spaces and meanings behind those spaces and convey them in a different manner to inspire a connection between people and the place they inhabit was the key idea.