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 14.1K journalsBayside Haven: A Stepped Hong Kong Tower Hollowed by an Atrium to Hold Nature at Its Core
A residential tower in Hong Kong treats people and nature as intertwined forces, then tests that idea through a carved void, lofted units and living walls.
Rethinking Walls: Turning a Dividing Wall in Peru into the Terraced Backbone of a Shared Hillside
An Editor's Choice entry at Divide 13 reconfigures a wall into ramps, markets, an amphitheatre and a viewpoint that two neighbourhoods can share.
Serenity Market: A Thu Thiem Market That Builds the Pause Into the Shopping Trip
Gardens, shaded gaps and a jacaranda grove turn a Vietnamese street market into a place where overstimulated shoppers can stop and recover.
Soul Hug: A Vine-Wrapped Tower That Pushes Gardens Into Every Floor, Room and Window
A cylindrical residential tower in China carries planting from a ground-level park to sky gardens and bedrooms, chasing biophilia at every scale.