Architecture
Design and planning of buildings, spaces, and environments that shape how people live, work, and interact.
Opera by the Sea: A Rotating Auditorium on Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
Emiliya Marinova's flowing opera house dissolves the boundary between city and coastline with continuous public landscape and adaptable performance spaces.
Dynamic Modules Shelter: A Telescopic Ring for Mountain Pilgrimage
A circular modular framework of steel, bamboo, and fabric grows vertically with demand, wrapping communal ground in adaptable shelter.
Lighthouse by the Sea: A Rock Shaped by Waves Becomes an Opera House on Tallinn's Shore
Frederik Pätzmann and Nils Besler fuse maritime symbolism with public infrastructure to reimagine opera house architecture on the Baltic waterfront.
Opera in Sight: An Iceberg Form That Merges Tallinn's Skyline with the Baltic Sea
TR3S Estudio's opera house concept fuses the vertical rhythm of historic church towers with the horizontal plane of the Baltic waterfront.
The Tower: An Opera House That Gives Its Ground Back to the City
Lyric Barnik and Chris Qiu stack Tallinn's opera program vertically, compressing its footprint to liberate the waterfront as civic space.
Linna Diamond: A Translucent Opera House Grown from Tallinn's Linnahall Ruins
A crystalline steel framework suspends an intimate auditorium above Linnahall, turning backstage operations into public spectacle along the Baltic Sea.
ECOTent: Turning Shanghai's Balconies into a Living Agricultural Network
A modular retrofit system attaches greenhouse modules to existing residential balconies in Pudong, weaving food production and social life into the facade.
A Shelter Made of Scaffolding: Reversible Architecture for Pilgrim Gatherings
Yuechuan Jin reimagines construction scaffolding as a reusable, adaptable structural system for temporary pilgrim accommodation.
Pacific: A Modular Underwater Colony That Grows One Hexagonal Cell at a Time
A shortlisted proposal for a self-sufficient settlement on the Pacific Continental Shelf, scaling from six residents to over six hundred.
Fold Bunk: A Foldable A-Frame Sleeping House for Pilgrimage Settlements
A modular dwelling that compresses into a flat transportable package and unfolds into a timber A-frame pilgrims village unit.
PATH: A Speculative Underwater Trading Hub Off the Coast of Penang
Modular pods and copper infrastructure form an expandable aquatic settlement 125 meters below the Strait of Malacca.
Lumination Exploration: Mobile Underwater Vessels Redefine What Architecture Can Be
A fleet of autonomous, shape-shifting habitats navigates Pacific Ocean trenches, turning migration into a form of community planning.
