Conservation Architecture
POSArchitecture that preserves cultural heritage, historical sites, and community identity through adaptive reuse and restoration.
Continental Shelf Recycling Habitat: Architecture Grown from Ocean Waste
A speculative underwater settlement transforms a submerged sinkhole and accumulated marine debris into the foundation for modular, expandable habitation.
Tsunami Convergenics: Turning Catastrophic Ocean Forces into Underwater Housing Infrastructure
A speculative underwater settlement off the coast of Onagawa, Japan, treats tsunamis and typhoons as energy sources rather than threats.
Extended Shell: Retrofitting Kolkata's Balconies as Living Urban Thresholds
A modular retrofit system recovers the social and environmental intelligence of Kolkata's historic verandas for contemporary Park Street residents.
Operative Sanctuary: Architecture Designed for Marine Life, Not Human Comfort
A speculative underwater habitat reframes sustainable architecture as ecological infrastructure for species threatened by ocean pollution.
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.
Biodiversity Lab: An Underwater Habitat That Grows Like a Coral Reef
A shortlisted entry for EHC Pacific reimagines the research laboratory as a modular, coral-compatible framework on the Great Barrier Reef seabed.
Opera House in Tallinn: Two Overlapping Circles That Dissolve the Stage Door
Paweł Gala's shortlisted proposal for Opera by the Sea uses a dual-circle diagram to merge public life and performance on Tallinn's waterfront.
Cylinder Park: Sustainable Architecture Turns Everyday Waste Into Play
Cylinder Park turns waste buckets into modular play spaces, combining sustainable architecture, reuse, creativity, play, and community life.
Wadi Rum Observatory: Desert Architecture Designed for the Night Sky
Wadi Rum Observatory turns desert architecture into a quiet instrument for astronomy, hiding research spaces under Jordan's starlit terrain.
Neo-Covenant: Sustainable Architecture for a Post-Apocalyptic Earth
Neo-Covenant imagines sustainable architecture in Lalibela as a self-sufficient habitat where survivors rebuild life, memory and hope.
FOLDINGS: Sustainable Architecture Shaped by Nature, Landscape and Community
Foldings blends sustainable architecture, volcanic tuff stone and timber into a coastal Montserrat retreat shaped by nature music and place.
Recolonizing Home: Sustainable Architecture for a World Above the Water
Recolonizing Home imagines sustainable architecture on Kanchenjunga, where closed-loop systems support 200 lives high above a drowned world.
