Architecture
Design and planning of buildings, spaces, and environments that shape how people live, work, and interact.
Architecture encompasses the design of structures and spaces that respond to human needs, cultural contexts, and environmental conditions. Members explore how buildings and urban environments can be thoughtfully conceived to support specific communities and ways of living.
The community examines adaptive reuse projects that give new purpose to existing structures, senior living environments designed around care and community, neighborhoods that evolve with their inhabitants, and public spaces that serve social and cultural functions. Work also addresses how architectural design can communicate environmental issues and respond to ecological concerns.
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View all 14K journalsThe Student Center As A Modular Space: A Timber Grid That Behaves Like a Street in Amsterdam
Shortlisted at Overseas Oasis 2020, a stacked wooden frame holds cafés, shops, studios and terraces in parts that can serve shifting demands.
Making sport more accessible: Numuga turns the empty ball court into a field of skill stations
A triangulated court of target walls, hoops and rebound arcs lets beginners practise passing and aiming without waiting for a full match.
Plug & Play Amsterdam: A Steel Frame That Treats Rooms as Swappable Parts
Beside an Amsterdam canal, a red steel grid holds an orange auditorium, a glass dome and yellow catwalks, staging everyday life as a public show.
ICH: International Community Hub in Amsterdam: A Dark Stone Block That Folds Open to Its Neighbours
Delovan Delawer's Editor's Choice entry trades form follows function for form follows community, carving a canal-side hub from shuttered stone volumes.