

Cultural Heritage
Design and architecture work that engages with cultural heritage, from preserving intangible traditions to reinterpreting historic sites and objects.
Cultural heritage covers both tangible inheritance, such as buildings, artifacts and archives, and intangible inheritance, such as performance, craft and memory. Designers working in this area must decide how to preserve, represent or reinterpret these traditions for contemporary audiences. The choices often involve balancing authenticity with new forms of use.
Community projects under this topic range from museum and cultural centre proposals to product design drawn from traditional practices, experimental installations that reframe historical material, and projects addressing the social conditions around heritage. Work here examines how past forms can inform spatial, material and interactive design today.
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View all 101 journalsTranslating Intangible Heritage into Contemporary Product Design
How a contemporary blind-box gift transforms sugar painting, ancient Chinese scripts, and cultural storytelling into an interactive product experience that brings intangible heritage into everyday life.
ZHA Translates the Flowing Silk Sleeves of Cantonese Opera into a Lakeside Cultural Center in Dongguan
Three sculptural volumes housing a grand theatre, exhibition hall, and multifunction hall wrap the Songshan Lake waterfront in UHPC and timber.
REFRACTION: Reinterpreting Cultural Heritage Through Light, Interaction, and Spatial Experience
An interactive educational and cultural space inspired by the art of stained glass, where light becomes a medium for learning, storytelling, and spatial experience.
Auridya Experience Centre
A Cultural Heritage Experience Centre that preserves community stories and historical legacies through immersive, multisensory, and experiential architecture, promoting the digitalization of narratives.