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An athenaeum historically served as a space for intellectual exchange and cultural preservation. In contemporary design practice, architects and designers explore how these institutions can be reimagined as responsive cultural habitats that engage with their communities and environments.

The community examines athenaeums through diverse lenses: adaptive reuse of existing structures, floating and resilient designs addressing climate change, listening spaces that evolve with user needs, and landscape-based approaches to cultural preservation in cities like Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro.

Top contributors

UNI9 works

Kasia Krawczyk2 works

Karolina Morawska2 works

Sara Jurincic2 works

UNI Editorial2 works

Thomas Labarthe1 work

Clément Meynard1 work

Jiuyang Fu1 work

Clément and Thomas

THE MESH

A place for discovery, experimentation and sharing It is here, facing one of the symbols of modern architecture, the MAC Niteroi by Oscar Niemeyer, that the Athenaeum emerges, as a ground movement in the seabed. The mesh appears in the bay as an artificial topography in the landscape, inspired by the mountains surrounding the city of Rio de Janeiro

Kasia and 2 others

Atheneum of Architecture in Copenhagen

To think of the Atheneum of Architecture we need to define what architecture is and what is its purpose. As we think of architecture as space then maybe the most architectural gesture, highlighting the built space more than any volume, would be lack of it. Maybe it would be a way to also show what we think is going to be a "style" of XXI century architecture

Sara

ATHENEUM

Architecture purely as a built space erected at a given plot is disappearing nowadays. We're not designing a building, but an experience. A space of exploration and an involvement . We see Atheneum as a polygon for architectural sensations – and interactive organism through which we explore and examine diverse architectural tools and phenomena.

Marc

ATHENAEUM, from sanctuary to cultural habitat

The definition of Athenaeum has changed through the course of time. From a sanctuary to an educational institution, it has always been a place for those who seeked for improvement and inspiration. This design preserves this spirit, fulfilling the needs of the present. Afloat on water it looks at ease, while mitigating consequences of climate change.

珺 and Jiuyang

Athena in the water

With the belief that architecture is a structure-generated space, the structure must be able to produce or shape every kind of space ?including abstract spaces.the design was generated by rethinking building to reshaping and perceiving abstract environment and culture.

Karolina

Athenaeum 2023

Heart of the Building The focus point is the light tower. Created of a glass material, which opacity can be controlled by the electrical system, provides Multiway of usage as an observation point, a glowing in the dark source of light or an inside projection screen.

Guillermo and Javier

THE KNOWLEDGE VAULT

Athenaeum- Free Learning Space It is proposed to consolidate through different forms and resources all these distribuited at the different levels of the structure. Where it measure that is growing. The learning is also releasing. The five ways of learning proposed are: Seeing, Experimenting, Listening, Watching, Studing

Mateusz

Apeiron: Athenaeum Testimonium Architecturea

the design consists of the underwater structure which translates Arches (part of the word architecture), begginings according to pre-socratic philosophers into Tekton (second part) of concrete and glass. Main space of the building is an area for a Virtual Reality game in which players learn about dead or unborn buildings, create new ones and teach others.

UNI Editorial

publishedStory6 months ago

Plaka House by Local Local

A refined renovation of a historic Plaka townhouse, blending Athenian material tradition, light-filled interiors, and contemporary domestic life beneath the Acropolis.

Attica Landscape

Athenaeum

UNI

publishedResults5 months ago

ENGRAM: An Athenaeum That Listens, Responds, and Evolves with Its Users

A futuristic knowledge institution where piston-driven walls, shifting geometries, and adaptive research spaces turn architecture into a living partner.

Athenaeum

Educational Building

UNI

publishedResults5 months ago

TOPOS Athenaeum: Rebuilding Rio's Lost Hills as a Living Cultural Landscape

Two green-roofed volumes recall the demolished Morro do Castelo and Morro de Santo Antônio, stitching memory and ecology into Flamengo Park's waterfront.

Athenaeum

Attica Landscape

UNI

publishedResults5 months ago