Abstract
This thesis aims to study the diverse and vast impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the relationship that its geopolitical and socio-economic landscapes has on the built environment. Sihanoukville, Cambodia, has benefitted from BRI infrastructures and in return, the city’s development has highly aligned with the BRI and has faced widespread Chinese urbanism since. This thesis explores new architectural typologies that responds to such forms of urbanism and social conditions that might be viewed as neocolonialistic.