The emergence of urbanization and technology led the decrease in physical activity of people and resulted to the rapid increase of obesity prevalence, especially for pre-school children in their developing years. Urbanization decreased the accessibility of walking and physical activity facilities that resulted to an obesogenic environment. Moreover, the developing technology affects the lifestyle of the people and increases the sedentary time leading to permanent sedentary behavior. In Marikina City, it is evident that urbanization is the main cause of childhood obesity in the city. Due to high vehicular traffic, lack of safe pedestrian facility, and obesogenic environment, children don't engage in physical activity like walking and exercise. Marikina Elementary School is identified to have high prevalence of childhood obesity among other schools. Obese kinder children and their parents tend to use motorized vehicle over walking, because of safety concerns and lack of pedestrian facilities in the area. Safety is the main concern of the parents for them to walk to school and they want to have a secured and comfortable neighborhood. With this, the study aims, to plan walking routes to school with safe and comfortable environment through applying the needs and preferences of the main users to streets capes and landscape features. This also aims to enhance the physical activity of the kinder obese children by identifying the ideal energy expenditure needed to control their weight. Through these findings, the study produced planning strategies and policies to apply in order to fight childhood obesity through urban development. The study also produced landscape designs with safe and comfortable streetscapes for the walking routes, as well as engaging play features that invites moderate to vigorous physical activities to the children.

The city of Mandaluyong, located at the core of the Metropolitan Manila region, is tagged as one of the fastest growing cities in the region. This growth elicits a new need for proactive building, specifically creating spaces for urbane activities, welfare enhancement, service administration, and civic participation. Apart from these, the city government would also benefit from a recognizable sense of place -- a place that is the primary reference for the city of Mandaluyong. The site poses a distinct problem of organization. With the rapid urban development taking over the region, there is a need for the government to respond and prepare to meet this growth with its own. The conditions of the site also poses systemic issues not particularly distinct to the city. A common theme among interviews of the city officials is discipline and the lack thereof across different activities; Traffic Management Systems, Green Building Codes, and Public Open Spaces cannot be properly utilized by an uninvolved, uninformed, and un-empowered citizenship. There lies the cusp of what the redevelopment plan is for, to suggest that the vision of a progressive, functional, and efficient city is indeed true, good, and beautiful, that the democratic elements of governance function only when there is will, and that the building be a testament to the government's commitment to all people. It is through the development of a narrative within a designed environment that we can show that discipline and order do go with progress. To achieve a design that is capable of communicating this narrative, there needs to be a concept linking the design agenda to the project rationale. At the very core of the goal of the incumbent City Government is the thrust for community collaboration and unity. And the design can achieve this by invoking an established identity of the city of Mandaluyong : Home. This is used by numerous historic groups to refer to the City. This identity, aside from being well established in the subconscious of the local community, is as much about emotion (feeling) as it is about spatial characteristics (look), Making it an ideal concept to tie the project together. The proposed project is the conceptualization of the redevelopment of the Mandaluyong City Government Center in Maysilo Circle, Barangay Plainview. The project aims to tackle issues of traffic gridlock and the lack of open space and imageability in the area through urban design and architecture interventions. The study presents a narrative of how architecture incorporate key concepts and respond to the context of Mandaluyong City.

As the world transitions to the 21% century, the way architecture is perceived and built evolves as well. Bernard Tschumi, proposed to re-evaluate the definition of programming in Architecture, to consider the emergent concepts of what he referred to as “cross-programming” and “dis-programming”. The theme of UP College of Architecture undergraduate thesis celebrates this movement, by applying Tschumi’s concepts in an agenda based design rather than the conventional typology based programming This thesis study focuses on the Masinag District, in Antipolo, Rizal. Masinag district is bounded by barangays Mayamot and Mambugan, and is intersected by Marcos and Sumulong Highway. Due to its location and direct access to both Antipolo and Metro Manila, the site is known as the gateway to Antipolo. What makes this site a viable one is the fact that the new LRT-2 Masinag station would be located here.
By naming the site’s issues and opportunities, the 4 agendas were formulated; connectivity, community, commerce, and sustainability. These agendas were used to form the different spaces needed by the site. Ultimately, the development was conceived to be a transit oriented development which connects the whole district together and celebrates the image of Masinag as the Gateway to Antipolo.

Fisherman's Village is a undergraduate thesis proposal in response to the contextual needs of Roxas City, Capiz. It is an architectural response to the agenda of strengthening the identity of the city through empowering the local industry and promoting ecological protection. Fisherman's Village is a redevelopment of the Libas Fishing Port that aims to provide integrated port, administration, and community facilities for empowering the local seafood industry and protecting the fisherfolk community.

Taking the thesis brief of this year: designing critical insertion and interventions, the designer sought to study a space that already longs to become PLACE. The Upper east (silangan) gate of Bonifacio Global City (BGC) was identified. Underneath C-5, is about 12 km of historical World War II tunnels, currently closed off and unused. BGC and other tourism related bodies hae expressed plans of creating a Bonifacio War Tunnel Museum that would showcase the tunnels and the main entrance, serving as a visual city marker for the upper east gate. The plans however plan to make the tunnel exclusive, ignoring that four out of the five tunnel exits are accessible only to East Rembo, a residential community categorized in Makati comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) as urban decay. Makati on the other hand has programs like Special Precincts for Urban Renewal (SPUR) and Disaster Resiliency for Vulnerable Enclaves (DRIVE) that aim to develop East Rembo, to further integrate with the rest of the city. Assigned residential-commercial area in front of upper-east gate lot was considered. The project simply acknowledges that redesigning the tunnels for all of its users would be a wiser investment, and that the design paradigm of uncoordinated government effort must be addressed. This was accomplished by creating a (1) public underground, mixed use tunnel development (2) an iconic BGC entrance as both pedestrian access and main entrance and a (3) mixed-use condominium opposite the main entrance that includes the East Rembo SPUR site with the Tunnel's vision.