Competitions
As a Visiting Professor at Domus Academy, I have supervised Master’s students during their professional internship (stage), supporting them in completing their degree requirements. I have led both individual students and student teams, collaborating on multiple international design competitions.
Warm Intersection is a compact, climate-responsive birdwatching shelter that uses intersecting timber volumes, warmth, and framed views to create intimate moments of observation where landscape, wildlife, and human presence gently meet.
Date: 2025
Abandoned Runway
The Hijrah Gate is a monumental public landmark that translates the spiritual journey of Hijrah into a contemporary spatial experience, guiding visitors from compression to openness through light, water, and form as a symbol of resilience, freedom, and renewal.
Date: 2025
Mujassam Watan Urban Sculpture Challenge
A playful yet functional winter shelter that transforms the comic instability of a banana peel into a warm, dismountable refuge, using humor, bright color, and insulated form to invite rest and delight within Winnipeg’s frozen landscape.
Date: 2025
Warming Huts Competition
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Urban London Retreat Competition
A biophilic and narrative-driven metro system that reimagines Turin’s Linea 2 as a network of urban oases, using the metaphor of roots, light, and growth to unite infrastructure, identity, and sustainability into a coherent civic experience.
Date: 2025
Torino Metro Line 2 Competition
A spatial installation that translates Mexico City’s urban density map into a walkable forest of suspended pipes, allowing visitors to physically sense the gradual shift from openness to compression and reflect on how density shapes freedom, movement, and social life.
Date: 2025
Mextropoli Pavilion Competition
A compact, self-sufficient housing prototype that creates a quiet living oasis along rail infrastructure by combining sound insulation, renewable energy harvesting, and adaptable interiors to address urban noise, affordability, and new ways of living near mobility corridors.
Date: 2024
Microhome Competition
A light-driven hospitality concept that reinterprets the San Domino lighthouse as an immersive “house of light,” where wind, reflections, and carefully choreographed illumination shape serene interiors that connect landscape, atmosphere, and architectural experience.
Date: 2024
Lighthouse Hotel Competition
An evocative memorial that transforms the 1939 European railway network and the last deportation train from Lyon into a fractured spatial journey, where broken rails, rising forms, and light culminate in a Star of David to honor the victims of the Shoah and preserve collective memory.
Date: 2023
Holocaust Memorial Sculpture Competition
Collaborators and Students
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Ksenia Dolgikh
COLLABORATOR AND STUDENT
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Victoria Paltilov
COLLABORATOR AND STUDENT
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Betül Avcı
STUDENT
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Rana Collu
STUDENT
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Zehra Elif Mehmet
STUDENT
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Hanwen Lyu
STUDENT
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Samridhi
STUDENT
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Rohan John
STUDENT
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Karuna Agarwal
STUDENT
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Sejal Sethi
STUDENT