Building Simulation
Digital modeling and analysis of buildings to test performance, adaptability, and real-world behavior before construction.
Bresciani Valdés Castillo Huidobro's 1950s Santiago Housing Complex Still Holds Lessons
The Matta Viel complex in Santiago, Chile, pairs modernist ambition with courtyard urbanism across four concrete blocks and three shared gardens.
Schapira Eskenazi's Montecarlo II Building Wraps a Curved Bauhaus Vision Around a Chilean City Block
Completed in 1962 in Viña del Mar, Chile, this residential slab folds a convex facade around collective green space near the Pacific coast.
ASA Studio Stacks Offices and Apartments in a Naturally Ventilated Brick Tower Above Kigali's Rooftops
A five-storey mixed-use building in Kacyiru proves that local materials and passive cooling can replace air conditioning in dense urban Africa.
Simplex Architecture Steps a Seoul Mid-Rise Tower to Negotiate Between Low-Rise Commerce and High-Rise Housing
In Seocho-dong, a gridded stone tower of terraces and sunken courtyards mediates between two radically different urban scales.
Estudio Tecalli Builds a 74 m² Studio House from Regional Brick for a Choreographer in Puebla
In a gated community of cookie-cutter housing near Cholula, a white Ajalpan brick house makes room for both living and dance.
WOVEN Architecture Layers a Waterfront Home into a Forested Hillside on Saanich Inlet
A 6,500-square-foot residence in Willis Point, BC nestles into steep terrain, trading spectacle for a quiet calibration of wood, earth, and water.
FHHH Friends Wraps a Seoul Music Academy in a Faceted White Shell That Echoes Its Interior Logic
A 1,270-square-meter preparatory academy in Seoul stacks soundproof practice rooms inside an angular volume that reshapes its block.
Atelier FCJZ Builds Four Houses That Blur Classicism and Modernism at a Ningbo Lakeside Campus
Conceived in the 1990s and realized three decades later, four board-formed concrete studio-houses sit among autumn trees beside Dongqian Lake.
skimA Slots a Vertical Metal Tower into a Yeonnam-dong Brick House to Make It Mixed Use
A 292-square-meter renovation in Seoul's cafe-lined Yeonnam-dong grafts a new circulation spine onto a low-rise residential shell.
Vallribera Arquitectes Tucks a Full Family Home Inside a Single-Storey Row House Near Barcelona
A blue steel mezzanine, exposed brick, and clever passive strategies turn a modest Vallès terrace into an A-rated family home.
NAC Arquitectos Wraps Twin Valencia Towers in Spiraling Ribbon Balconies
Saler Homes places 27-story residential volumes at the city's southern edge, framing views from farmland to the Mediterranean Sea.
XAUAT Wraps a Rural Chinese Dwelling in Glass Bricks and Passive Climate Strategy
A renovated village house in Weinan, Shaanxi Province, fuses Guanzhong vernacular traditions with zero-carbon heating and rainwater systems.
