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Contemporary Design

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Contemporary design encompasses current approaches to creating functional and aesthetic spaces, objects, and environments. It reflects how designers today respond to modern living, working, and social needs while engaging with materials, form, and spatial relationships.

The community explores contemporary work across scales: from individual furniture pieces and cafe interiors to residential and commercial architecture. Projects range from adaptive reuse of existing structures to new builds, often examining how contemporary design can integrate with historical contexts or establish distinct spatial identities.

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Gonzalo

'21 CHAIR

Affordable. Detachable. Recyclable. The '21 CHAIR is a piece of furniture that balances the 21st century's needs for environmental sustainability and universal access with our longing to reconnect with the relaxing side of our homes after a long day of work.

Sofiya

HOME AT THE END OF THE EARTH

The basejumper residential building is recessed into the rock so as not to disturb the natural landscape. The house and the rock flow into each other, while remaining self-sufficient. The philosophy of the project is harmony with nature and the aesthetics of simple forms, the integration of architecture into the natural environment.

Michael and 2 others

EMERGENT / The Picturesque Evolved

The intent of this design is to create meaningful connections amongst site, program and reality of program and everyday life/discovery and create new biophilic form design that isn’t dependent upon site build components or major disturbances that then need to be “grown back” to meet the definition of a blurred boundary.

Arturo

NOR MOD

The objective of this project was to create a series of modules that connected, form different configurations of shapes and sizes for the benefit of the space in which they will be placed, starring the green areas and the user letting them live together in harmony.

JEEVESH

JAPA CAFE

The cafe is built in Japan to give the people a sense of traditional aesthetics mixed with the modern architecture and culture. The various dining spaces inside the building provides with a unique user experience at all the different location of the restaurant. Abundant sunlight and airflow provides a good experience to the user. Main materials used are wood

Kimba and Ryoya

cloud

Our proposition is to create city life that spontaneously are generated by human behavior in modern city landscapes. It?s like clouds that appear and disappear Incessantly. This furniture is not perceived as furniture named bench or parasol. People spontaneously sit here and naturally get together under the shade. The way how to use this furniture depends

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Three Studios Revive a Paris Printing House as a Red-Framed Workplace in the Sentier

A former printing house in Paris's historic textile district becomes 1,000 square meters of layered, imperfect, and characterful office space.

Contemporary Project

Futuristic Workspaces

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

Ashworth Parkes Architects Build a Contemporary Farmhouse That Feels Like It Has Always Been There

A cluster of gabled volumes in brick, flint, and timber replaces a derelict 1940s dwelling on a former market garden in North Hertfordshire.

Modular Farm

Sustainable Farm

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Coffee Machine Red: A Replicable Cafe Interior Built from White Tile, Red Glass and Steel

A shortlisted Visualization '20 entry turning white tile, translucent red screens and steel into a cafe system built to travel between locations.

Cafe and Restaurant Design

Coffee Shop

UNI Editorial

publishedReview1 week ago

Design Chair for Kids at Home: A Legless, Pattern-Born Seat Scaled to Children Aged 2 to 7

A grounded, loop-patterned chair built from child ergonomics, where safety comes from form and the seat doubles as play surface and spatial anchor.

Furniture Design

Children Design