BArch thesis’ students
We present to you the 68 BArch senior students thesis’ design studio projects supervised under Prof. Dr. Tiago Costa during the course of his teachings. He teaches the seniors’ design studios internationally consecutively since 2014. Depending on the country and university institution not all senior students’, that had Prof. Dr. Tiago Costa as their advisor, had to develop and defend a written BArch thesis. The ones that did, appear on this list with an indication mark “[thesis]” right after their thesis’ titles, followed by the students’ country of origin in brackets.
BArch Senior Students Thesis’ in the Academic Year of 2014/2015
Maitha Al Matrooshi: “The Hologram” [thesis] (UAE)
Laila Balan: “Maridaw” [thesis] (Syria)
Dema El Dali: “Unity in Diversity” [thesis] (Palestine)
Yousra Ghazi: “Psycho Arch” [thesis] (Egypt)
Hisham Kaakani: “d2 d3 Paradigm” [thesis] (Lebanon)
Moin Merchant: “DXBMA (Dubai Military Academy)” [thesis] (India)
Sally Michael: “Dubai Central” [thesis] (New Zealand)
Farishta Mirwais: “Gateway: The Link” [thesis] (Iran)
Sara Mohamed: “Mobile Habitat” [thesis] (UAE)
Majedeh Sayyedi: “Vizyon District” [thesis] (Iran)
Agha Pasha Musakhanov: “Obesity Awareness Center” [thesis] (Azerbaijan)
Sara Noran: “Anthropomorphism: The Timeline Machine Museum” [thesis] (Jordan)
Farah Sabobeh: “Dubai Time” [thesis] (Jordan)
Noor Salih: “Dune District (D2): Mixed-Use Urban Development” [thesis] (UAE)
Bushra Shaksheer: “Sound in Motion” [thesis] (Saudi Arabia)
Maryam Soliman: “Lego Blocks” [thesis] (Egypt)
Ramla Yusuf-Ahmed: “The Visual Language” [thesis] (Saudi Arabia)
Nageena Zarif: “Distortion of 30,45: The Architecture of Arabic Calligraphy” [thesis] (Iran)
BArch Senior Students Thesis’ in the Academic Year 2015/2016
Qais Abdelrahman: “The Astronomer’s Oculus” [thesis] (Palestine)
Karim Abu Eicha: “Abu Dhabi House of Martial Arts” [thesis] (Egypt)
Tariq Abugharbiyeh: “The Machina” [thesis] (Palestine)
Duha Al Nasir: “Emergomorphosis: The Emergent Rig” [thesis] (Jordan)
Elham Al Saffar: “Al Wasl Museum” [thesis] (UAE)
Amer Badi: “Museum of Cymatics” [thesis] (Syria)
Nafisa Bukar: “Resurgence: Rethinking the Refugee Camp” [thesis] (Nigeria)
Dima Faraj: “Al Madheef: Fractal Architecture” [thesis] (Syria)
Nada Hawari: “Dark Metropolis” [thesis] (Egypt)
Omar Hussein: “Stills Film Academy” [thesis] (Palestine)
Mariam Mohamed: “Transcendence: A Marine Research Conservation Center” [thesis] (Egypt)
Daniyar Sabirrakhimov: “International Center Bureau” [thesis] (Kazakhstan)
BArch Senior Students Thesis’ in the Academic Year 2016/2017
Basel Abujumaiza: “Dyna-Flex: Dynamically Flexible Plaza” [thesis] (Palestine)
Salman Al Sharhan: “FIFA Headquarters Asia” [thesis] (Kuwait)
Hind Bintouq: “Dar Althaqafa” [thesis] (UAE)
Bilal Daboul: “Federal Police Headquarter” [thesis] (Syria)
Omar El Shazly: “Achromatopsia” [thesis] (Egypt)
Mariam Ghanawi: “The Alleviation” [thesis] (Egypt)
Tawfiq Ghusain: “The Sixth Symphony” [thesis] (Egypt)
Sador Hailu: “Timeless Plaza” [thesis] (Sudan)
Mohamad Khallouf: “Redevelopment of the Old Airport in Umm Al Quwain” [thesis] (Syria)
Mohamad Maarouf: “Qombra” [thesis] (Lebanon)
Mahdieh Nasiri: “City as a School and School as a City” [thesis] (Iran)
Mohamed Shaban: “Dubai Courthouse” [thesis] (Egypt)
Mohamed Tabaja: “Made in Dubai” [thesis] (Lebanon)
BArch Senior Students Thesis’ in the Academic Year 2017/2018
Olfat Abdelaziz: “Experience of Space through Mind and Body: Metaphysics of Architecture” [thesis] (Egypt)
Rana Al Shaik: “Avant Garde” [thesis] (Palestine)
Ahmad Al Shirawi: “Emotional Geographies: Physical and Social dynamics of Healing Spaces” [thesis] (UAE)
Mohamed Ashraf: “Beyond Barriers” [thesis] (Egypt)
Tammar Bohi: “Urban Agriculture + Architecture ” [thesis] (Iraq)
Hassan Can: “Project Dionysus” [thesis] (Turkey)
Parmita Nahiyan: “Photography in Architecture: A Study of Architectural Photograpy and its Role in Architecture” [thesis] (Bangladesh)
Ahmad Nasser: “Transcendence” [thesis] (Palestine)
Nadine Rghei: “The Sociology of Architecture: The Conscious Shaping of Space” [thesis] (Egypt)
Mina Zaki: “Line of Destinations” [thesis] (Egypt)
BArch Senior Students Thesis’ in the Academic Year 2018/2019
Amber (Peng) Lee: “KINMENology: A Paradoxical Casino as a Cultural Condenser” (Taiwan)
Chris (Tsung-Han) Duan: “Taipei City Hall” (Taiwan)
Doris (Xin) Yang: “Boundary Community Renewal” (China)
Lu-Sheng Chien: “No One is an Island” (Taiwan)
Peter (Tzu-Yuan) Cheng: “Culture Consumption: A Heterotopian Social Condenser” (Taiwan)
Ryan Nguyen: “Promenade of Enlightenment” (USA)
BArch Senior Students Thesis’ in the Academic Year 2019/2020
Denzel (Ting-Tze) Tung: “Co-Learning City Greenbelt System” (Taiwan)
Jason (Zih-Yuan) Ding: “What is the Future of the Gas Station?” (Taiwan)
Zoe (Min-Ai) Kuo: “Project Dandelion: Wulai Long Stay Village” (Taiwan)
BArch Senior Students Thesis’ in the Academic Year 2020/2021
Chin-Ting (Billy) Liu: “Hyperloop Station” (Taiwan)
Yi-Hsien (Ethan) Ho: “Taipei Grand Prix” (Taiwan)
Wei-Han Chen: “Reconstruction of the Cultural Site of Ximending’s Back Street” (Taiwan)
Ludey Padilla: “The Village of Hope, a new beginning” (Nicaragua)
Ju (Tris) Chin: “A New Way of Living” (Taiwan)
Yi-Hung Wang: “After We Go Up” (Taiwan)