Keep going, BISCAST architecture students. Every thesis hour counts.

In partnership with

Five laptops, open side by side along the wall. Paper cups within reach. Every screen turned toward the work.

These are fifth-year architecture students from BISCAST, and this is thesis year. Each of them walked in with a three-hour voucher. This is the story of where those hours came from.

A masterclass, and then the real work

On August 2, 2026, Project Pamanayan held Arki-Thesis Fundamentals, an online thesis writing masterclass for architecture students. Kataid co-presented it, and Vizcode powered it.

According to the organizers, 185 students from 53 architecture schools across the Philippines took part.

A masterclass can show you how a thesis is built: how to frame the problem, how to support the design, what a panel is likely to ask. What it can't do is sit with you in the hours afterward, when all of that has to turn into pages and drawings.

That was the part we wanted to help with. Every participant received a free three-hour voucher to use at Kataid while preparing their thesis.

Built for the long stretch

When we opened Kataid, we wrote one line to describe who the space is for: for the long stretch between the first draft and the defense.

An architecture thesis is exactly that kind of stretch. Research, site analysis, design development, then revisions, then more revisions. It runs for months, and most of it happens in ordinary hours that nobody sees.

Three hours won't finish a thesis. We know that. But three hours at a desk, with other people nearby doing the same kind of work, can move one chapter or one set of drawings a little further.

What partnerships like this are for

Kataid is a Bikol word. It means beside you.

For us, that doesn't have to start at our front door. Working with student initiatives like Project Pamanayan lets us be beside people before they ever walk in. The organizers did the hard part: building a program that reached students across the country. Our part was small and practical: a place to sit down and keep going once the session ended.

We'd like to do more of this, with school organizations, review centres, and anyone building something useful for students in Naga and beyond.

If you're planning a workshop, a program or an org event for students and want a partner beside you, we're interested. Message us on Facebook or reach us through our Contact page.

To the fifth-year architecture students of BISCAST, and to all 185 participants: whatever stage your thesis is in, we're glad to be a small part of the stretch between now and your defense.