Mile Arc offers architectural design, planning support, and consultancy services, led by Dr Yakim Milev — a RIBA Chartered Member with a career spanning stadium and large-scale sports infrastructure, civic and cultural buildings, and adaptive reuse, informed by PhD-level research into computational and machine-learning-driven design.
Selected work
NY Stadium
2019–2022
A modular stadium design sited within a dense, high-rise city grid, developed alongside PhD research at the Royal College of Art into machine-learning-driven stadium design. The concept wraps the bowl in a green, vertically planted facade and roof-level concourse, testing how a relocatable stadium typology adapts to an intensely urban context.
Warsaw Concert Hall
2021
A concert hall concept for Warsaw exploring a folded-plate roof geometry and branching, tree-like structural columns to unify entrance canopy, foyer, and auditorium into a single continuous form.
Casa de Guijarros
2020
Casa de Guijarros ("Pebble House") is a mountain expedition base concept sited in a high-altitude, snow-bound landscape. A central hub housing kitchen, dining, first aid, and training facilities anchors a radial network of temporary, pebble-shaped modular units, supported on rock anchors and organised by a distance-based zoning strategy — from expensive, relaxing accommodation near the hub to more affordable options further out.
Fitt for the Future
2021
A speculative adaptive reuse proposal converting an existing arena-type building into a flexible office and social space for a post-pandemic workplace. The design reorganises the building around roof gardens, zero-waste eateries, a research and innovation lab, and wellbeing facilities, asking how office typology can adapt to distancing, changing social patterns, and sustainability demands.
Garden in the Whirlpool of Time
2021
A proposal for Chiesa di San Giovanni in Bolsena, Italy, developed around the alternative path of the Via Francigena pilgrim route. A new ribbed dome — visible by day and lit at night — marks the church as a destination, while pilgrim accommodation and communal spaces are set within a spiralling garden of vines, olives, and wild asparagus, kept largely underground or below earth mounds so the church remains the only visible structure.
Grottole
2021
An adaptive reuse proposal for a ruined castle in Grottole, one of the historic hill towns of Basilicata, Italy. A new auditorium is grafted into the existing stone walls beneath a canopy of bougainvillea, with organically shaped staircases weaving between levels in reference to the alleys of the medieval village below. The design draws on local legend — the story of Abufina and Selepino — as the basis for the building's spatial and material narrative.
Church in Bulgaria
2019
A design for a new Orthodox church and its surrounding public square, featuring a traditional gold-domed form set within a landscaped plaza and a wider massing study of the surrounding urban context.
Crypto Creams Pavilion
2021
A compact geodesic dome pop-up pavilion concept for the Crypto Creams brand, exploring lightweight lattice geometry at kiosk scale and visualised in situ on parkland using augmented reality.
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