Double Skin Facade
Architectural systems using dual-layer envelopes for climate control, privacy, and aesthetic expression.
Eller + Eller Wraps a Düsseldorf Office Campus for WPP in Germany's Largest Closed-Cavity Facade
At the gateway to Düsseldorf's Medienhafen, MIZAL stacks 2,500 workplaces behind a sealed glass skin, deep atria and stepped roof gardens.
Johnsen Schmaling Architects Draws a Timber Curtain Across a Narrow Milwaukee Infill House
On a 24-foot lot in Milwaukee's Lower East Side, rotating wood-and-aluminum louvers turn the street facade into a drawn curtain of light and privacy.
AWP Splits a Steel House Between a Perforated Street Membrane and an Open Golf Course Facade
In Huixquilucan, Mexico, Veredas House turns a dotted black skin toward the road and opens glass and concrete to four fairways of a golf course.
MFOLM Arquitectos Designs Two Sister Houses in Mendoza That Share a Plot but Not an Identity
Built for two siblings on a single irregular lot, FCA Houses balance thermal mass, privacy, and mutual generosity in suburban Argentina.
N2B Arquitetura Turns a Ribeirão Preto Home into a Refuge Behind Concrete Screens and Freijó Wood
A 1,020 square meter single-story house in inland São Paulo dissolves the boundary between domestic life and tropical landscape.
Arid Wraps a 1951 Athens Corner Building in a Perforated Aluminum Veil That Breathes
In Athens' Patissia district, three new floors rise above a postwar house, sheathed in a climate-responsive double skin of movable metal screens.
arqbag Splits a House in Two and Lets the Catalan Hillside Do the Rest
A glazed atrium between two masonry volumes turns a steep slope in Cervelló, Spain, into a passive climate engine.
Studio VDGA Wraps a Pune Courtyard House in Layered Jali Screens That Breathe with Light
On a tight 4,000 sq. ft. urban plot, a lattice of brick, timber, and arches conjures calm in the middle of Pune's density.
FGR Architects Folds a Concrete Curtain Around a Layered Toorak Residence
In Melbourne's leafy east, rippling concrete fins wrap a split-level dwelling that trades suburban spectacle for slow, private revelation.
Komorebi Family Home: Light Through the Layers
ConForm transforms a terraced house in Dulwich into a carefully layered sequence of courtyards, double-height voids, and dappled light.
Double Header House by D’Arcy Jones Architects: Innovative Multi-Generational Living in Victoria, Canada
The Double Header House features mirrored volumes, steel cladding, and courtyards, enabling multi-generational urban living with privacy, sunlight, and flexible design.
Batten House by Ben Walker Architects A Sustainable Family Home Integrating Privacy, Light, and Landscape in Curtin, Australia
A sustainable family home in Curtin featuring operable timber screens, solar courts, and terraced interiors harmonizing privacy, light, and landscape connection.
