The final phase of the UMPRUM admission process was a three-day, in-person design session where applicants created and presented designs based on common assignments.

Each task was time-restricted, ranging from three to eight hours. Amongst the tasks were writing assignments, concept and design assignments, creation of models, and work with specific sites from applicants' home cities.

The principal assignment was the design of an architectural space based on our interpretation of an abstract painting. The requirements consisted of a meaningful concept, a reasonable design, floor plans, sketches, and a model in a fixed scale for reference.

I designed a universal house built from scrap materials. The house-type serves as an emergency living space for victims of extreme floods, the occurrence of which is increasing by the year. Individual houses may be connected, thus creating a floating city.

The sketches and floor plans showcase possible uses and advantages, such as accommodation, roof adaptability, a jointed connection of individual houses, small ship docks, opportunities for recreation, floating city movement, and much more.