After nearly four months of busy work, my second semester of graduate school is over, and after that is the graduation project. This semester is challenging for me. This semester’s courses have been upgraded compared with the previous semester, and the difficulty has also significantly increased. But a challenging curriculum also means many rewards. I Read the full article…

Urban areas that are child-friendly are crucial to building inclusive and healthy cities. It’s not only about building playgrounds and other play areas for kids; the design should also incorporate components that encourage neighbourhood engagement, pedestrian safety, and a secure environment for kids to play and learn in. Around 1.35 million deaths are caused by Read the full article…

One of the most influential architects in modern Asian architecture is Geoffrey Bawa, a well-known Sri Lankan architect who passed away in 2003. He is well known for employing creative techniques to combine traditional and modern design components. Bawa’s work is defined by his extensive understanding of the local culture, climate, and traditional building methods Read the full article…

The development of computational design may be attributed to modernist thinking and technological breakthroughs around the end of the 1960s. Computational design processes are now widely employed in architecture, in part because of computer science concepts developed in the 1950s across research facilities in the US and the UK. The use of computational design in Read the full article…

Urban designers play a key role in converting unused areas into greener, more sustainable areas. To create vibrant and environmentally responsible urban settings, they bring their skills in planning, design, and the fusion of numerous aspects. Some key contributions that urban designers can make are Site Analysis and Assessment, Conceptualization and Design Development, Green Infrastructure Read the full article…

    Cities are the result of human social development, a vibrant economic, living and cultural ecosystem centred on people. As a way of embodying the culture and spirit of a city, urban sculpture has become more and more accepted by the world. As one of the most distinctive forms of public art, urban sculpture Read the full article…

Harvest and Effective Time flies, I am very excited and happy, and I can successfully complete the second stage of the course tasks. The second stage of the course took us to Ouseburn in Newcastle, Gateshead City Centre and Marmaladellane Community Centre in Cambridgeshire. These field trips and subsequent seminars brought me a very different Read the full article…

As a postgraduate student in urban design, I learned about the cohousing model in my second semester through the Housing Options course and visited the Cambridge cohousing case study, which led to a greater focus on the shared co-housing model and the direction of sustainable development. This is because sustainability is one of our core Read the full article…

I remember growing up and witnessing Zaha Hadid becoming more famous by the day. Then thinking that finally Arab women are starting to shine in a complex society and even internationally against all stereotypes. She was the first women to be awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 in a male dominated industry at Read the full article…

The technique of repurposing a building or structure while maintaining its historical or cultural relevance is known in architecture as “adaptive reuse.” A sustainable method of building design involves using existing buildings as opposed to tearing them down and creating new ones. Adaptive reuse projects might include anything from converting old factories and warehouses into Read the full article…

  Nowadays green space is used as a buffer between two spaces. Sometimes the only purpose of green corridors is to beautify the city. Biophilic urbanism is a term used to derive the green space, as not just an element between infrastructure and building, but instead a way to connect people from the space. The Read the full article…

Many debates have taken place over the years about what causes a city to be socially unequal. Economic causes, lack of public health services, lack of opportunities as a result of the city’s unrestrained suburbanization (Frenkel and Israel, 2018), lack of transportation access, local housing regulations, lack of educational opportunities, and so on. How does Read the full article…