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Student Master Thesis Projects

(post)#bgsocarch Student theses

Location

University for Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), Sofia

Date

2020 - present

Tutors

Aneta Vasileva,
Emilia Kaleva

Partners

History and Theory of Architecture Department

Since 2018, as a continuation of the lecture series  (post)#bgsocarch ‘The Architecture of Bulgaria after World War II’, a number of architectural diploma theses have been created on the topic of socialism and post-socialism by students who have gone through the course and graduated from the specialisation ‘Preservation of Architectural Heritage’ at the History and Theory of Architecture Department at UACEG-Sofia.

Explore the Masters Thesis projects.

Iva Hasamska, ‘Sunny Beach’ Memorial Complex in Lovech, 2019
Rethinking the traces from the internment camp for political prisoners as a place of memory.
Koycho Krachanov, ‘Extreme Buzludzha’, 2022
The abandoned Memorial House of the Bulgarian Communist Party as a place for contemporary extreme adventures.
Viktoriya Dimitrova, ‘Zone B5: Outside the Twilight Zone’, 2020
An experimental thesis project treating the emblematic neighbourhood in Sofia as a piece of cultural and urban heritage.
Boris Zdravkov, ‘Restart of Prefabricated Housing Estates and Buildings’, 2020
A possible future for the most common prefabricated housing typology in the country, the BS-69-Sf.
Magdalena Andonova, ‘St. Vrach’ Centre for Contemporary Health, 2022
Refurbishment of the former ‘St Vrach’ Party Residence near the town of Sandanski as an alternative health centre.
Zlatimira Simeonova, ‘Festival’ Open Air Cinema and Theatre, 2022
Revitilising and reintegration of the former Open Air Cinema and Theatre in the town of Kyustendil.
Simeon Todorov, ‘Obelya 2: The Future of the Prefabricated Neighbourhood’, 2021
An alternative way for ‘awakening’ one of the last remaining prefabricated housing estate neighbourhoods in the capital.
Yoana Koleva, ‘Sunny Beach. Mirror City’, 2021
The Sunny Beach resort as a social and pop-culture experiment.
Viktoriya Tsaleva, The Rila Hotel in Sofia, 2021
Refurbishment and adaptive reuse of the former hotel to accommodate the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party in the centre of Sofia
Georgi Marhov, ‘Centre for Dissonant Heritage’, 2019
Reconsidering the location and the type of traumatic memory based around the demolished monument ‘1300 Years of Bulgaria’ in front of the National Palace of Culture.
Teodora Madanska, ‘A New Government Residence’, 2022
Creating a new model for a Government Residence responding to contemporary ideas on the relationship between society and power.
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