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Sai Shubha Rajyam, Ameera Aboushar & Samarth Ravikumar
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A VERTICAL MOHALLA : A Performative Housing Model for the Kathputli Artists of Delhi
Shubha is a graduate of Wadiyar Centre For Architecture, Mysuru and is currently working at Ostraca Architecture and Interior Studio. She is also a LEED Green Associate and views the world around her with empathy and a piece of her heart is left in every design she does. Filled with curiosity and looking to constantly learn, she is amazed at the beauty of life and nature around.
Ameera Aboushar is a graduate of Wadiyar Centre for Architecture, currently practicing at RMA architects, Mumbai.
Her current interests lie in the intersection of art and Architecture and it's exploration and integration in everyday life
Samarth Ravikumar recently graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Wadiyar Centre for Architecture (WCFA), Mysuru, India, in 2025. Currently based in Shivamogga, Karnataka, his interests lie in spatial storytelling, monumental and form-driven architecture, and experimentation through digital software and representation.
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Lara Yalınay Erel
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Life Above
Lara Yalınay Erel is a fourth-year architecture student at Gazi University Faculty of Architecture. She approaches architecture not only as the production of physical structures, but also as a medium for social interaction, collective living, and urban experience. Her interests include digital fabrication techniques, AI-assisted design tools, and sustainability-oriented approaches. Through her work, she aims to develop experimental spatial ideas that combine the technological and social potentials of architecture.
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Selinsu Taştan
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Verti'co
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Aleksandra Pacyna, Zuzanna Śliwa & Amelia Frączek
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φllotaxis
Aleksandra Pacyna, Zuzanna Śliwa, and Amelia Frączek are three architecture students from different parts of Poland who came together during their studies in Wrocław. Their collaboration is shaped by constant conversation, curiosity, and a willingness to question everything—from initial assumptions to the smallest design decisions. Their process often begins with a spontaneous idea that evolves through discussion, experimentation, and obsessive refinement. With different perspectives and a shared enthusiasm for exploring possibilities, they transform moments of creative chaos into intentional and considered outcomes. What defines their collaboration is not necessarily similarity, but momentum—the curiosity to explore, trust in the process, and energy that comes from developing ideas collectively and pushing them further than any of them could alone.
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Ahjin LIM & Haneul KIM
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Blurring the Boundary in Vertical Life
Ajin Lim is an architect who graduated from the Department of Architecture at Inha University in South Korea, holding the philosophy that architecture goes beyond simply creating forms and is a process of empathizing with people’s experiences and lives. After spending six months as an exchange student, she has continued to develop projects that envision new ways of living for the future by empathizing with people from diverse backgrounds and environments within international architectural contexts, proposing ideas that respond to the realities and experiences of those in different places.
Haneul Kim, a 24-year-old graduate of the Department of Architecture at Yeungnam University in South Korea, has been pursuing architectural design with the philosophy of creating spaces that are more necessary for people. Having studied as an exchange student at the Val-de-Seine School of Architecture in Paris for one year, she is currently immersed in conceiving diverse and creative ideas based on that experience and aims to design spaces most suitable for people within the international architectural environments.
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Havva Beyza Düzgün
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HK Plug-In Village
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Mehtap Çelmeli
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Slipstack
Mehtap, from Turkey, enrolled in Gazi University's Architecture program in 2020. After completing a one-year preparatory education, she graduated in January 2026. She concluded her undergraduate studies with 'Slipstack', her final project designed for the 'Vertical Village' competition, which merges vertical housing with community-oriented design.
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