Earth Architecture
Architecture and design that prioritizes natural materials, environmental sustainability, and ecological restoration.
Clad in Clay
Along the Coast A narrative of architecture that emerges, rather than one that is imposed. Every land possesses its own narrative—one that has taken shape over time, under the sun, in the path of the wind, and through the interplay of water and earth—long before it ever hosted architecture. What we call the architectural identity of a land today is not merel
Ayodele: Earth-Built Housing That Pushes Back Against Accra's Concrete and Asphalt
A modular earth-built housing block for central Accra stacks family units around shared courtyards, craft studios and planted roofs.
Earth Made: A Rammed Earth Courtyard Housing Scheme Built Around a Stepped Water Kund
Three earthen bars frame a sunken, terraced pool in Gwalior, proposing that the oldest building material can still organise shared urban life.
Matéria Base Grows a Rammed Earth and Timber House out of a Mantiqueira Hillside in Joanópolis
In Joanópolis, Brazil, Matéria Base builds a 497 m² mountain house of earthen walls, stone piers and sawtooth timber roofs gathered around a pond.
Earth Made Residence: Stacking a Ghanaian Compound House into 36 Units Made Entirely of Earth
Cublo reimagines Accra's traditional compound house as a dynamic, cantilevered block that argues earthen architecture can be iconic.
Earth Made: Rammed Earth Housing in Accra Organised Around an Old African Courtyard
A shortlisted proposal stacks four apartment types around a planted courtyard, letting earthen walls and long openings do the cooling work.
Maya
Essay writing challenge - Role of Architecture in space habitats
FOLDINGS: A Faceted Coastal Settlement That Grows From Its Slope in Tuff Stone and Timber
Folded timber roofs rise from volcanic tuff bases across a coastal slope, turning topography into a language of communal and private space.
Making architecture that is really sustainable
Design for kids where 'Form Follows Climate'
e-den: A Mangrove-Inspired Seed for Recolonizing and Repairing a Post-Apocalyptic Earth
Shortlisted in Architecture of the Apocalypse 2020, e-den recasts colonization as repair: a mangrove-like seed that shelters people and heals land.
Earth Side: Between the Ground and the Returning Body
Loss is not life’s interruption but its condition. This research reimagines the hospice in Montagu, Western Cape, as a threshold rather than a terminus, mediating private, communal and inherited grief. In a South Africa where apartheid’s death geographies still shape who dies with dignity, access to care remains uneven. Moving beyond clinical models, the project foregrounds emotional, spiritual and ancestral dimensions of dying, positioning architecture as an act of care, repair and passage.
TINTIM ATRAE
Project is about rethinkig using raw material such as earth. The building is design to be house for 30 families with a low cost material. New technology, such as
Co-Life
‘Healing garden’, public square, market street and intergenerational workshops could bring older people into the urban mix and reduce the level of social isolation. The applications of sustainable principles aim to reduce the building’s ecological footprint and deliver a self-sufficient (zero carbon) community.
Baoyi Huang Landscape Architecture Portfolio
This portfolio explores how landscape design can create meaningful connections between people, nature and place. Through ecological restoration, urban transformation and inclusive public spaces, the projects investigate how landscapes can support resilient environments and enrich everyday experiences.
Rooted
Architecture does not begin with form. It begins with listening— to the ground beneath, the culture around, and the materials that the land offers. These six projects span landscape and structure, wetland and mountain, urban density and open field. What holds them together is not a style. It is a conviction— that the best architecture grows from where it stands. Rooted is a body of work built on that belief.
Il progetto è buono nel complesso, la particolare semplicità dell'impianto generale suggerisce un ulteriore approfondimento/arricchimento dell'aspetto architettonico e distributivo.
Good organization of buildings and open spaces because the central path is like an "open room" in which to walk or stop. The architecture is very interesting and well represented