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Chung se yoon, Han gyeong heun & Chae jin
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Inverted Gyeongbokgung : The Underground Realm
Chung Se Yoon
Graduated from Kaywon University of Art and Design, South Korea. His architectural interests lie in the relationship between urban context and spatial experience. His work explores underground architecture, sustainability, and public spatial narratives, with a focus on creating meaningful architectural experiences through environmental and social interaction.
Han Gyeong Heun
Graduated from Kaywon University of Art and Design, South Korea. His work is driven by an interest in creating sustainable environments through a deeper understanding of the relationship between people, space, and the city. He focuses on context-driven design and explores the harmony of form, light, and materials to shape distinctive spatial atmospheres and experiences.
Chae Jin
Graduated from Kaywon University of Art and Design, South Korea. Her interests center on interior design and the creation of immersive spatial experiences. Her work explores how interior environments can engage users through thoughtful spatial composition, atmosphere, and experiential design.
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Ida Barck, He Jie & Jacob Braun
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Five Voices of Culture
Jacob Braun
Jacob is a 25-year-old from Kiel, Germany, currently pursuing a Master’s degree at Lund University in Sweden. He completed a dual Bachelor’s program at IU International University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. During this time, he worked at nybo architekten in Hamburg, where he focused on wooden construction and sustainable building methods.
Ida Barck
Ida is an architecture student currently pursuing her fourth year of studies at Lund University. She has previously studied at Umeå University and Sapienza University of Rome. Her work explores how a strong concept and a users perspective can shape spatial experience, atmosphere and social interaction in both housing and public architecture.
Jie He
Jie is a first-year Master’s student in Architecture at Lund University, following five years of architectural studies in Shanghai Jiaotong University. She is committed to exploring the uniqueness of her own culture from a global perspective and looks forward to embrace new possibilities within the international architectural landscape.
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Josefina Cotella
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Ruinas
Josefina Cotella is an architect from Tucumán, Argentina, whose final degree project work explores the relationship between architecture, landscape, memory, and heritage. Her projects are driven by an interest in ruins as living palimpsests; spaces where history, time, and territory coexist through layered narratives. Her design perspective is strongly influenced by the landscapes and historical layers of northern Argentina, with a particular interest in ruins, materiality, and the dialogue between built form and terrain.
The featured project, developed at the Ruinas Jesuíticas de San José de Lules, proposes an underground museum that preserves and reveals the historic site through an immersive architectural approach. By working beneath the terrain rather than imposing on it, the project explores architecture as a way of uncovering hidden narratives through space, light, and movement. Controlled darkness contrasts with natural light entering from the landscape edges and unexpected openings above, creating an atmosphere of discovery, contemplation, and connection with the ruins.
Josefina continues to develop her architectural practice through projects that explore atmosphere, memory, and materiality, with the intention of creating spaces that are both emotionally resonant and deeply connected to their context.
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Maria Luisina Soria Arancibia, Gerardo Manuel Mocsáry Acevedo
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Wood Wide Web Museum
Maria Luisina Soria Arancibia
Gerardo Manuel Mocsáry Acevedo
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Agnes Payer, Hanne Sigrid Elster, & Ashcharya Vishvi Rajakaruna
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Subterranean Sanctuary
Agnes Payer
Agnes Payer is an architecture and engineering student at ENSA Paris-La Villette and ESTP Paris. She aims to create sustainable, context-responsive architecture with a strong focus on landscape, materiality, and the human scale. Alongside her studies, she explores architecture through photography, with a particular interest in the relationship between space and the people who inhabit it.
Hanne Elster
Hanne Elster is an architecture student at Lund University. Her interest lies within the challenges and opportunities connected to shaping existing environments through adaptive and context-
driven design.
Vishvi Rajakaruna
Vishvi Rajakaruna is an architecture student at Lund University with a background in fine arts. She is interested in exploring sustainability in architecture and enjoys approaching design through both spatial and artistic perspectives.
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Michelle Manz, Silvia de Pellegrini & Ting Liu
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Under the underground
Pellegrini
Silvia De Pellegrini comes from Verona, Italy, and began her architectural studies at IUAV University of Venice. During her Bachelor’s degree, she spent an exchange year at Polytechnic University of Valencia. Between her Bachelor’s and Master’s studies, she worked for nearly two years in Munich, Germany, as an intern at LBGO Architekten.
Since August 2025, she has been pursuing a Master’s degree in Architecture at Lund University.
Liu Ting
Liu Ting was born in Weihai, China, and began his architectural studies at Shandong University. During his Bachelor's degree, he completed a six-month internship at Weihai Architectural Office.
Since August 2025, he has been pursuing a Master's degree in Architecture at Lund University.
Michelle Manz
Michelle Manz was born and raised in Germany and began her architectural studies at the University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart (HFT Stuttgart). During her Bachelor’s degree, she completed an internship at Dittel Architekten, where she subsequently worked as a working student. For one year following her graduation, she continued working there as a Junior Architect.
Since August 2025, she has been pursuing a Master’s degree in Architecture at Lund University.
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