Grow Your Own Bamboo City
Grow Your Own City’ explores whole value chains, connecting rural village-based bamboo agroforestry with the fast-growing urban centres of Indonesia, to unlock a multitude of socio-environmental benefits across global bamboo supply chains.
Balikbayan: Home Away From Home
“Balikbayan” housing celebrates cultural identity in Toronto’s Little Manila. Addressing unaffordable, inflexible housing for Filipino immigrants, it reimagines accessible homes, adapting the traditional compound into a mid-rise fostering belonging and community resilience.
Housing for Widowed Families
Bayt al-Karāmah is a climate-responsive housing project in Sennar, Sudan, designed for families of fallen soldiers. It supports dignified living through culturally grounded spatial organization, passive strategies, and community-oriented planning.
Dar Al-Naseem Housing
Dar Al-Naseem is a climate-responsive, high-density housing project in Dongola, Sudan, inspired by Nubian architecture, integrating passive design, renewable energy, water efficiency, and walkable community to support dignity, privacy, and sustainable living.
TRC + LC3 Prototype Pavilion
This research through making aims to explore with students the structural, architectural, environmental, and social dimensions of Textile Reinforced Concrete and its applications, particularly in the context of social construction in the Global South.
Unhoused and Invisible: Research + Action
Advanced Design Studio based on the outcomes of the research “Cartographies of an Invisible City”.
Informal Settlement Improvement
Three design studios of TDS-UDDI and CODI Baan Mankong which serve as case studies for teaching and learning about informal settlement improvement projects in Thailand
Building Resilence in Face of Disaster
The recent natural disasters that affected General Cerri exposed a lack of preparation and coordination to face them. Therefore, we intend to contribute to the strengthening of their community and organizational ties to bolster resilience.
Housing for Universal Access
The project investigates how differentiated user needs and resident knowledge can inform socially and environmentally sustainable transformation of Denmark’s existing building stock, challenging normative housing models and supporting inclusive, low-carbon futures.