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Mst. Khairun Nahar Jeba
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From Fragility to Resilience: An Integrated Approach to Coastal Settlement on Kutubdia Island
Mst. Khairun Nahar Jeba is a Bangladesh-based architect and a graduate of Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), where she completed her Bachelor of Architecture in 2025, graduating first in her class with a CGPA of 3.91/4.00.
Her architectural interests focus on climate-responsive design, resilient communities, and context-driven approaches that strengthen the relationship between people, place, and the environment. She is particularly interested in exploring how architecture can respond to social and environmental challenges while remaining rooted in local culture, materials, and ways of living.
Her undergraduate thesis, From Fragility to Resilience: An Integrated Approach to Coastal Settlement on Kutubdia Island, explored a community-based model for developing safer, more resilient, and self-sustaining coastal settlements in Bangladesh. Through her work, Jeba views architecture as more than a physical structure, considering it a tool for resilience, social connection, and meaningful transformation of everyday life.
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Siam Rahman
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Factory[N]Certainty
Architect and computational design researcher, graduated from North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. My work explores the intersection of architecture, computation, and AI focusing on parametric systems, generative algorithms, simulation, and AI-assisted design. I investigate how rules, agents, data, environmental feedback can generate adaptive and emergent architectural outcomes.
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Md Shazzadul Islam
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Heritage at Risk: Reviving the Soul Of BIRULIA (A Case Study in Architectural Conservation & Adaptive Reuse)
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Nicolas Rosero
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Progressive housing in the La Pradera neighborhood: a module that grows and shrinks.
Nicolás Rosero is a 24-year-old Ecuadorian architect based in Quito and a graduate of the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador (UIDE). His work explores sustainable urbanism, housing, interior architecture, and the transformation of underused urban spaces.
Through his projects, Nicolás seeks to create thoughtful, inclusive, and context-sensitive architecture by combining research, material exploration, and clear design principles. His approach emphasizes the relationship between people, place, and the built environment, with a focus on developing meaningful and responsive architectural solutions.
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Camila Solange Alvarez Chamorro
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The Cesar Chiriboga Square as a Catalyst of Urban Life
Camila Alvarez is an architect who graduated from the International University of Ecuador (UIDE) in 2025. She currently works at the Metropolitan Public Company for Mobility and Public Works (EPMMOP), an entity of the Municipality of Quito. Through this experience, she has gained a deeper understanding of the management and transformation of the spaces that shape the city.
Her architectural approach is guided by a fundamental question: How do we inhabit spaces, and what stories do we want to preserve within them? She is particularly interested in heritage, urban planning, and sustainability, believing that architecture extends beyond the act of building to encompass an understanding of place, its memory, and the people who inhabit it.
Her thesis project, presented in this competition, emerged from this perspective, exploring an architecture that engages with its context, values what already exists, and simultaneously imagines new ways of inhabiting space.
For Camila, architecture is the art of inhabiting a space, as well as giving meaning to the way it is experienced.
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Victor Hugo Angos Cosios
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Sport Training Center in Loja, Ecuador
Víctor Hugo Angos Cosíos is a 23-year-old Ecuadorian architect who graduated in January 2025 from the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design at Universidad Internacional del Ecuador in Quito. His work focuses on architectural design, project representation and visualization, technical documentation, and the coordination of construction processes. His graduation project, a Sports Training Centre for the city of Loja, explores the relationship between architecture, sport, and public space as catalysts for social and urban development. He is currently involved in the design, planning, and delivery of residential projects, combining a creative architectural vision with a strong command of technical and construction-related principles.
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Katarzyna Jamiol
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Nature's Sanctuary
An award-winning landscape architect, architect, and researcher focused on public space. Her research and design practice combines spatial analysis, aesthetics, and functionality with a strong commitment to sustainability. She develops context-sensitive solutions that support climate adaptation, reduce carbon impact, and strengthen the environmental resilience of cities. Her work is distinguished by a careful understanding of place, attention to the quality of implemented solutions, and a thoughtful balance between local heritage and the evolving needs of contemporary users.
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Carolina Toscano
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Cultural Center For Children And Adolescents In The Rural Parish Of Tumbaco
With academic training in Interior Design and Architecture, completed in Quito, Ecuador, she has developed an approach that integrates different scales of design, from the conception of interior spaces to their relationship with architecture and the surrounding context. Her work seeks to establish a coherent dialogue between functionality, materiality, context, and architectural expression, resulting in proposals with a strong sense of identity and spatial quality.
Her academic background is complemented by a Master’s degree in Building Management, completed in Spain, which further strengthened her professional profile in the areas of planning, coordination, and architectural project management.
Among her distinctions, the Cultural Center for Children and Adolescents in the Rural Parish of Tumbaco was selected as a semifinalist in the XX Pan-American Architecture Biennial of Quito (BAQ 2022) in the “Gold Medal” category. She was also featured in the architecture magazine TRAMA as part of its edition highlighting the “50 Outstanding Young Ecuadorian Architects”, which recognizes emerging professionals in Ecuadorian architecture.
Her professional profile brings together architecture, interior design, and project management, with a particular interest in creating functional spaces that are responsive to their context, where architectural and interior design decisions are conceived as part of a unified design approach.
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