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Circular Design: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Circular design applies the principle of closing material loops to buildings, products, and spaces. Instead of the linear take, make, dispose model, it asks designers to plan for disassembly, adaptation, reuse, and the recovery of components over a building's whole life. Flexible layouts, reversible assemblies, and salvaged or surplus materials are common tools in this approach.

Members here share projects that show these ideas at different scales, from modular play systems built from surplus containers for refugee camps to reversible retail interiors, a school extension designed for carbon-negative performance, and urban pavilions rooted in regenerative practice. Several entries also explore speculative forms, such as rotating and shifting structures, that treat change over time as a design condition.

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The sense of coherence

The major principle of our design strategy is that school's building and space (including its 'hidden curriculum') produce the sense of coherence - by using diverse modes of learning that would provide integrity and comprehensibility of the surrounding world, manageability and meaningfulness of its elements for personal development of each pupil.

Ali and 2 others

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"ORIGYN", way to future

As a result of human evolution, the idea of migration into space is presented and in the way of realizing this, architecture is one of the most influential sciences. The goal of this project is to realize the architectural mission such as security, beauty and psychological aspects. as well as the use of physics laws and technological progress in the design.

Jannatun Nayeem and 3 others

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Breathing Tower

This skyscraper was designed as a prototype to emerge in the most polluted areas in the world with the potential to tackle the air pollution problem. Apart from serving the contextual and typical needs this 21st century skyscraper serves the global responsibility towards the environmental pollution around the city and the planet.

Amanda and 3 others

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Federal Office Tower

When we think of skyscrapers of the future, we think of the eastern world. But we are looking for the challenge of designing in an already consolidated city, where technology and diversity comes first and is tested with mastery on the western side of the world.But the biggest challenge is where to build and re-architecture will be the solution.

Aimi and 3 others

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INTROVERSE

Located in a park in the heart of Beijing, the project creates a secluded space that protects users from the busy environment and prompts each individual to find their own expression of faith. Nature was used as a key element to contextualize the project while the spiral shape evokes the idea of a journey one makes towards the central space.

Lab2019 and Lab2019

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Chrono-museun

Short Concept "Chrono Museum" is an architecture for the time of the sun, the time of the moon, and "individual time" that each people has. Here, people made to be sensitive to various "Time". This "architecture for architecture" not only presents "time and space" as the origin of architecture, but also presents the future democracy of our humanbeing.

Sara

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FOUR SEASONS Zen center

Every human action since ancient times has been oriented towards natural cycles. Different conditions that nature offers us, bring different reactions and needs.The sun, as the main source of energy, is the primary guide in raising a person's energy level, and thus mood

Rabah and Sedra M.

ROTATING SHIFTING SKYSCRAPER

A modern organic shape with rotating floors that provides hierarchy in needs and sustainability in one single tower. Before designing my project i searched about the life in 2050 , which will need a lot of energy and electricity due the use of technology and the existence of robots.. I used natural methods to generate power (solar and wind powers...)

David and luca

RIONIR

The name "RIONIR" consists of the two words RIO and REUNIR. In Portuguese Reunir stands for "(to gather)", which plays an essential role in the project. Combining this with RIO results RIONIR.

Nongquan

MANHATTAN n.2

In 1991, eight scientists participated in an experimental project called Ecosphere 2 in Arizona, USA. Although the experiment ultimately failed, its process and results have very important reference value for future human migration to space. The main reason for the failure of the experiment was the lack of sufficient volume and complex ecological system.

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publishedResults1 week ago

Cylinder Park: Turning Surplus Buckets into a Modular Play System for Refugee Camps

A shortlisted entry in Re-imagining Play 2020, Cylinder Park extracts architectural potential from discarded plastic buckets to build adaptable playgrounds

Sustainable Architecture

Youth Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog6 months ago

The Reversible Shop by Francesca Perani Enterprise + Bloomscape Architecture: A Flexible Retail Design for a Circular Fu

Flexible retail space in Milan uses modular steel grid, reusable materials, and reversible systems to enable sustainable, adaptable, and scalable store design.

Architecture

Interior Design

UNI Editorial

publishedNews6 months ago

Tree House by Studio ACTE: A Sustainable Urban Pavilion Rooted in Circular Design

Sustainable tree house pavilion in Amsterdam using reused materials, circular design, and modular construction, blending architecture seamlessly with nature.

Architecture

Housing

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog6 months ago

Feldballe School Extension by Henning Larsen: A Carbon-Negative Model for Sustainable School Architecture

Carbon-negative school extension using straw, timber, and circular design, creating a healthy, energy-efficient, and climate-responsive learning environment for future generations.

Architecture

Educational Building