Design Builder
Projects exploring the intersection of construction, materiality, and design thinking in built environments.
Design Builder covers work where architectural thinking extends into making and construction. Members explore how design decisions translate into physical structures, examining the relationship between conceptual intent and material reality.
The community showcases projects ranging from adaptive extensions and community facilities to manufacturing plants and residential towers, alongside explorations of digital tools and methodologies that bridge design and building processes.
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View all 18 journalsSimplex Architecture Steps a Seoul Mid-Rise Tower to Negotiate Between Low-Rise Commerce and High-Rise Housing
In Seocho-dong, a gridded stone tower of terraces and sunken courtyards mediates between two radically different urban scales.
WIDOARQUITECTOS Carves a Monumental Studio from a Five-Meter-Wide Lot in Cuernavaca
A 150-square-meter office building on a narrow 5-by-15-meter plot uses vaulted ceilings, courtyards, and raw materials to project quiet strength.
AntiStatics Architecture Wraps a Beijing Activewear Store in Fabric-Inspired Curves
Red Vicutu's 350-square-meter concept store on Beijing's northeast ring road turns the logic of textile weaving into architecture.
GRADE-IENT: A School Organised as a Gradient Students Navigate Between Modes of Learning
A gradient of learning zones, floating Iceberg studios and a central Collaboratorium let students choose how, where and with whom they learn.