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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Bard Yersin Architectes Carves Three Apartments out of an 18th-Century Farmhouse in Grandvillard
In the historic core of Grandvillard, Switzerland, a timber lattice gable and split-level rooms turn a farmhouse's bay structure into new homes.
3fconcept Gathers a Hue Homestay Under a Wave Roof Around a Lily Pond Courtyard in Vĩ Dạ
In Hue's Vĩ Dạ quarter, a 290 m² homestay pairs rubble stone, ochre plaster and steel around a pond courtyard to hold off the alley's urban erosion.
Architecture Discipline Floats a Timber-Screened Lantern over a Glass Base in a New Delhi House
A New Delhi residence pairs a slatted timber box on a glazed plinth with gabled plastered pavilions, trading excess for filtered light and garden.
INDARQ Makes One Common Three-Hole Brick Serve as Wall, Ceiling, and Sunscreen in a Paraguayan House
In Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay, Vivienda E.ME asks a humble local brick to shade, enclose, and frame a row of preserved trees.
