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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mise-en-scène: A Gallery That Breaks Every Artwork into Cubist Fragments with Mirrors
Zigzag concrete walls and angled mirrored panels turn a gallery in Sweden into a stage where one sculpture is seen from many angles at once.
Floating Street: A Vietnamese Water Market Where Fishing Boats Become the Counters
A floating revetment that rises and falls with the river becomes the trading street, with bridges and pavilions held lightly above the water.
420: A Staircase of 420 Steps That Turns the Months of a Divided Lima Into a Climb
A 60-meter hillside ascent counts every month a wall split Lima's residents, then asks whether a symbol alone can mend a divided slope.
Open Art Gallery: A Lifted Steel Box That Hands the Ground Back to the Artists
Ateliers scattered across a sunken public square, the formal gallery floated above, so art gets made in full view of whoever walks past.
