Building Design
FLDArchitectural approaches to designing buildings that serve communities, adapt to change, and integrate multiple functions.
THE COMMUNITY INSTALLATION
A Community-Centric Design Process for Enhancing the Structure of the Social Layer Utilizing Community Stories in Urban Informal Settlements, Sri Lanka.
Common Ground
Proposal for the Cad in Clay-competition. It is a sustainable urban neighborhood project in Carnaxide where the main building material is compressed clay bricks made out of soil from the construction site
Porosity
Porosity is a parametric façade system driven by one logic: panel openness rises with height, from dense and private at ground level to open and daylight-filled above. Built on a 1.2m module across an 8m × 18m surface, it stays fabrication-ready and scales to any building without redesigning the logic.
atelier iso Designs and Builds a Timber House on a Long-Vacant Corner Plot in the Village of La Claye
In La Bretonnière-la-Claye, a 79 m² timber house fills a long-empty village corner, borrowing local gables and stone walls without imitating them.
Studio Locomotive Builds a Khao Lak Restaurant Around a Wall of Salvaged Tin-Miner Roof Tiles
In Phang Nga, Thailand, Waankarn pairs board-formed concrete halls with breathing timber louvers and an archive of Takua Pa's tin-mining past.
23 SUL Digs Down and Opens Up a São Paulo House Instead of Stacking a Second Story on Top
In São Paulo, 23 SUL exposes timber trusses, strips old brick and excavates a meter into the ground to grow a one-story house without adding a floor.
ViGa Arquitectos Stacks Vaulted Brick Apartments over Street Retail Beside Mexico City's Parque Hundido
Steps from Parque Hundido in Mexico City, a 460 m² corner building uses concrete vaults, brick and plywood to add density without erasing the block.
Architects Collaborative Stacks a Seven-Level House onto an Irregular 270 m² Plot in New Delhi
In New Delhi, The House of Thirds turns a skewed five-sided plot into a seven-level home of sunken courts, timber shutters and carved daylight.
pinto Lifts The Earth Crew Headquarters Above a Narrow Bangkok Street on a Floating Platform
In Din Daeng, Bangkok, three white-clad boxes stack on a raised slab over nine parking bays, trading street noise for quiet work rooms and long views.
CM Design Docks a Corrugated Steel Box beside a Vernacular Brick House in a Dongguan Village
In Dafeng Village, Dongguan, a 109 m² renovation pairs rammed earth rooms and family memory with a metal annex, spiral stair and shared courtyard.
Gut Deubelbeiss Nill Architekten Rebuilds a Lost Schoolhouse in Unterägeri as a Shingled Timber Counterpart
In Unterägeri, Switzerland, a timber school with a concrete core replaces a demolished 1834 schoolhouse and completes a listed school courtyard.
Plus Idea Studio Turns a Phan Rang Corner House Inward Around a Planted Central Courtyard
A 250 m² two-generation home in Phan Rang, Vietnam, wraps a stone-clad shell around a chain of voids that pull light, trees and breeze deep inside.
Aida Atelier Gathers a Café, Library and Workspaces Around a Brick Stove in a Rural Nagano Clearing
In Miyota, Nagano, a 185 m² cedar-clad building stacks a café, kitchen, library and workspaces around a log column and a heat-storing brick stove.
YUARCHITECTS Rewraps a 1999 Beijing University Tower in Scalloped Granite Fins and Curved Glass
In Beijing, a renovation for the Beijing Institute of Technology trades a dated hotel-and-conference tower skin for a deep rhythm of stone and glass.
MTT Wraps a Damyang Café Around a Garden Lawn with a Chain of Low, Slate-Roofed Pavilions
In Damyang, South Korea, a 2,317 m² café bends its low glazed wings around a planted lawn, letting the garden, not the building, take center stage.
Georgios Apostolopoulos Architects Strips a 1970s Kifisia Apartment and Rebuilds Its Rooms Out of Joinery
In a circular 1970s block in the Athens suburb of Kifisia, an 80 m² flat swaps fixed walls for joinery that opens, folds and conceals on demand.
Verse Design Gives an Aranya Neighborhood in Qinhuangdao a Timber-Roofed Community Canteen Beneath Its Towers
In Qinhuangdao, Verse Design's Canteen No. 11 sets a low glulam pavilion among apartment towers, with trees and skylights inside the dining hall.
INS Studio Wraps a Maros Coffee Shop in Terracotta Lattice to Frame the Hills Beyond Makassar
In Maros, on the edge of Makassar, Common Days Cafe stacks three floors behind a breathing terracotta screen that swaps street views for hills and light.
