Little Islands is a weather-mitigation design for the Santo Tomas plaza in Barangay Santo Tomas, Lubao. The plaza is the barangay’s gathering ground — basketball games, campaigns, and emergencies all run through it — and the design answers with bioswales and managed rain flow, permeable paving, shade planting to reduce heat, and seating for basketball.

This is a student design proposal, developed for the LA 4621L capstone studio’s February 2026 study trip — it is a design, not built work.

Their work

• Read their full final design book (PDF, Google Drive) →
• See the whole Lubao project — all four sites and all nine capstone teams →

The site today

From the trip

Video from the February 2026 Lubao studio trip. More footage is on the Lubao hub.