Conceptual Architecture
Architecture exploring ideas, theories, and speculative design before physical implementation.
Valge Laev: Architectural Design for an Estonian Opera House on Tallinn Bay
Valge Laev transforms Estonia’s maritime memory and musical identity into an opera house architectural design for Tallinn Bay.
BIOREEF: Sustainable Architecture for Ocean Cleanup and Reef Restoration
BIOREEF imagines sustainable architecture as a living ocean station that cleans plastic, restores reefs, and supports marine research.
Aquatic Beacon: Underwater Architecture for Ocean Research and Restoration
Aquatic Beacon uses underwater architecture to create a modular research community focused on ocean restoration near the Great Barrier Reef.
Sound Waves: An Opera House That Opens Its Stage to the Baltic Sea
A shortlisted proposal for Tallinn's waterfront dissolves the boundary between auditorium, public hill, and Baltic horizon.
Aquatic Alveolus: Underwater Architecture Modeled on the Human Body
A shortlisted entry for EHC Pacific reimagines subsea living as an interconnected organism of pods, tunnels, and energy systems.
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.
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.
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.
