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Contextual Architecture: Projects, Journals & Ideas

52 Projects 52 Journals 28 Publications

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Contextual architecture considers how buildings and spaces relate to their surroundings, communities, and circumstances. This approach moves beyond standardized design to address the particular conditions, histories, and needs of each location.

The community explores how architecture adapts to changing urban conditions, cultural narratives, and time-based transformations. Work ranges from responsive spatial frameworks and adaptive learning environments to projects that engage with local identity, archaeological layers, and evolving city dynamics.

Top contributors

UNI12 works

UNI Editorial10 works

Paul Suendermann Maja Leichtner3 works

Mengyang WU2 works

Mohamed Abdellatif2 works

Dana Ibrahim2 works

Dieu Nguyen2 works

Anuja Ghare2 works

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Selen and 2 others

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CUBE(ish)

People are in a rush between their home and workplaces. They sometimes miss the opportunity to pause, look around and feel good. At this point in-between spaces (between home and workplace) in cities draw attention. Our concept is an in-between space which creates an escape point from daily rush.

Caroline and 2 others

Wander to Wonder

An architectural intervention that addresses the design of playgrounds through a modular system that stimulate the imagination of children living in the Kutupalong refugee camp.

laura and Fiama

SHIELD

Shield creates spaces that seek the congregation of all people who need a place of meditation. It proposes two contrasting levels, the lower one is isolated from noise and protected from the city with the intention of disconnecting you. On the other hand, the upper level proposes a green roof that connects you with nature, opening your view towards the park.

dharmik and 4 others

Kushaaneh, a girl who strives

Resilience Centre, Qandahar, Afghanistan

Mauricio and 2 others

Dark Brewed

A coffee house where a small talk becomes a big talk.

hossein and 3 others

ec OASIS tem

In this project, we have tried to create a peaceful gathering place, a place where people can visit their hopes and their challenges, their future and their past, their roots and their branches. We have also promoted a green and sustainable future for the Moroccans by defining new methods.

EsmaNur and Su

CRACKED

Human as a Material Trying to emphasize locality from human interactions through materials. The situation of locality has been considered has a transference while this takes places with people.

harshit and Niharika

MANGH HOUSE

The design is about a dwelling, in the old city of Jodhpur in the Hot and Dry state of Rajasthan in India. The user is a designer and exporter of handicrafts and artifacts. It revolves around catering to a residence for a family of 6 people. The key elements are ventilation and sunlight.

Marwa

Connect

“Connect” is a modular system that utilizes traditional and cultural materiality and building to create an sense of identity within space. It activates the senses, which helps children learn applicable skills such as collaboration, building, confidence, and communication as they use the camps to explore and find objects to add on to grow each module to play.

Berce

Crack

A person can take shelter not only in the place, but also in the person. The artist can take shelter next to people who make the same art as him, or he can rediscover himself in different branches of art. Therefore, interaction between spaces should be strengthened.

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Anuja Ghare

publishedDesign Process2 months ago

Fixity in Flux

Shaping the Architecture of Transition(s)

Cultural Architecture

Kinetic Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 weeks ago

Architecture Of Time: A Steel Frame Built to Outlast the Programmes It Was Designed to Hold

An open steel frame carries plug-in concrete volumes, letting a building of workshops and markets absorb technologies that do not yet exist.

Architecture Of Time

Architecture of Tomorrow

UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 weeks ago

TIME FRAME: A Steel Grid Framework That Lets a Learning Landscape Absorb Decades of Change

Shelter below and gathering above: this Architecture of Time 2020 winner treats time as a material and the grid frame as an armature for future use.

Architecture Of Time

Timeless Architecture

Volodymyr Ozirnyi

publishedBlog2 months ago

Beyond the Portfolio: Building a Digital Brand for Architecture Studios

Why leading architecture studios now design two experiences, one online and one in the physical world, and how to communicate expertise long before the first client meeting.

Architectural Experience

Architectural Portfolio