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 journalsLEVIATHAN: A Single Spine Threading Separate Rooms Into One Sculpture
Timber ribs, a red stepped landscape and a dark chamber of light slits hang off one continuous spine, testing where sculpture ends and architecture begins.
Wave 'Coral': Four Perforated Canopies Bring Human Scale to a Monumental Plaza
A wavy lattice shell repeated four times around an obelisk, turning a vast paved square into pockets of shade, planting and places to sit.
SHELTER: An Orphanage in Poland Built as a Cluster of Houses Around Courtyards
Szymon Gromadzki breaks a care facility for teenagers aged 13 to 18 into gabled timber volumes, protected courtyards and soft, domestic rooms.