Vasiliki Ioanna Nasaki

Vasiliki Ioanna Nasaki is an architectural designer with a focus on social and environmental justice in the built environment. Her work explores how architecture can challenge systems of exclusion and consumption, through the activation of spaces to accommodate community, care, and collaboration. Drawing from urban activism and material reuse, Nasaki’s projects engage with real social contexts, aiming to create spaces that empower people and promote meaningful participation and dialogue. Her design approach values adaptability, sustainability, and storytelling, seeing architecture not as static form, but as an evolving framework for civic life. Ultimately, her work seeks to reconnect people to place, purpose, and each other through design that listens and responds.

The Future We Make — This project transforms a forgotten Home Office site in Croydon, once a machine of border control, into a living workshop of repair, resilience, and belonging. It resists a world where cities are malls and people are data points, proposing instead a civic economy where making replaces buying, and participation becomes power. Migrant entrepreneurs, with inherited craft skills take centre stage, not as vendors, but as co-authors of a new urban story. The architecture listens, shelters, and adapts: reclaimed, circular, and quietly radical. This is not spectacle; it is slow, meaningful work. A framework for relationships. A seed of systemic change. In this space, consumption gives way to collaboration, and care becomes a collective act. Not a building, but a question: What kind of future do we build when we build it together?

Entrepreneurs’ shops and workshops share one space. Through transparent walls, craft unfolds in real time, enticing the visitor to pause, observe, and step inside. Architecture becomes porous, turning the act of watching into the first step toward participation.

Passive systems and reclaimed materials shape a low-impact architecture. Sustainability is not a feature, but a framework for care and long-term resilience.

Physical model exploring a floating exhibition space on the Thames, designed in response to rising sea levels and showcasing adaptive, climate-resilient architecture inspired by Zaha Hadid’s legacy.

Detailed section through the Innocent Headquarters, highlighting sustainable construction with mass timber and stone structure. The design prioritises daylighting, natural ventilation, and material honesty to reflect the brand’s environmental ethos.