Conceptual Architecture
Architecture exploring ideas, theories, and speculative design before physical implementation.
Pie in the Sky: Futuristic Architecture for a Self-Sufficient Airship Habitat
Pie in the Sky imagines futuristic architecture as a hydrogen-powered flying habitat where farming, water, energy and life move above Earth.
Tallinn's Pearl: A Shell-Shaped Opera House Rising from the Baltic Harbor
Martin Thüring's competition entry distributes an opera house across five interconnected organic volumes on Tallinn's waterfront.
Splash Depot
The design for this bus stop is inspired by the fluidity and movement of water. The structure takes shape as a series of undulating extrusions that rise from the ground to create the roof, seating and supporting elements. Interlaced metal strips create spaces for the community to experience water a
Immersion: An Opera House Born from Ripples, Sound Waves, and Coastal Terrain
Paulina Walachowska's conceptual opera house translates wave propagation and acoustic geometry into a walkable public landscape.
Submersion: A Modular Kit for Building Communities Beneath the Ocean
A scalable underwater habitat system organized around repeatable hubs, standardized connections, and renewable infrastructure for long-term subsea living.
The Dawn of Yggdrasil
Asgard reimagined as a pre-human civilization where technology became myth. Crystalline structures grown by unknown laws, Yggdrasil as a cosmic data network, the Bifrost as a controlled spacetime anomaly. At cold dawn, the incomprehensible reveals itself, ancient systems once seen by humans as gods. Myth as memory. Physics as divinity.
Kelpscape: An Underwater Habitat That Becomes Part of the Kelp Forest
A submersible research vessel designed to be colonized by the very marine ecosystem it studies, blurring the line between architecture and organism.
OASIS: A Spherical Underwater Habitat Engineered for Life on the Pacific Shelf
A 16.6-meter geodesic sphere proposes self-sufficient living 200 meters below the Pacific, turning structure into landscape.
Temporary Home for Dogs: A Reversed Zoo Rethinks Animal Shelter Architecture
In Bucharest, a sinuous corridor and freed landscape flip the logic of containment, designing a shelter that works to make itself unnecessary.
Above the Baltic: A Lighthouse Reimagined as Tallinn's Waterfront Opera House
Three brick volumes and a tilted glass tower turn a new opera house into both cultural institution and maritime beacon on Tallinn's coastline.
Wireless CoralPods: Modular Underwater Habitats That Grow Like Coral Colonies
A winning underwater architecture proposal imagines detachable, self-sustaining pods that coexist with marine ecosystems rather than displacing them.
Animal Harbor: Rethinking the Shelter as a Civic Landscape in Bucharest
A sprawling complex of curved volumes, planted courtyards, and public programs repositions the animal shelter as a social destination.
One Community: An Animal Shelter That Refuses to Hide from Its City
Bucharest's stray animal crisis becomes a catalyst for public space, memorial landscape, and social infrastructure in this layered proposal.
Opera by the Sea Estonia: Three Shells Dissolving Architecture into Tallinn's Coastline
A winning opera house proposal replaces monumental form with interconnected shells that blur the boundary between building, park and Baltic Sea.
Gateway to the Deep: A Vertical Architecture for Ocean Floor Access
A pressurized descent system reimagines how architecture might bridge the ocean surface and the sea floor through modular, deployable units.
Social Nature: Replacing Fences with Landscape to Rethink Animal Shelter Architecture
A layered system of habitats, elevated walkways, and modular pavilions creates a gradient from public park to protected animal territory.
Post Estonia: An Opera House Conceived as a Field of Glacial Boulders on Tallinn's Waterfront
Alvin Huang and Byron Cai fragment the opera house into an archipelago of geological masses that rethink civic monumentality along the Baltic Sea.
New Opera for Estonia: A Wave-Formed Timber Hall on Tallinn's Waterfront
A runner-up entry in the Opera by the Sea competition proposes a curved timber volume that mirrors the Baltic Sea while engaging the historic Linnahall.
Connection to Traditions: Pressed Earth Housing Shaped by Ghana's Climate
A residential community in Ghana uses passive ventilation, pressed earth walls, and porous courtyard planning to root sustainability in local tradition.
Väike Linn: An Opera House That Grows from the Waterfront
Kristin Urbatzka's radial opera complex dissolves the boundary between cultural building and coastal landscape through curved volumes and public terrain.
