Experiential Architecture
Architecture designed to engage the senses and emotions, creating immersive spatial experiences that shape how people interact with environments.
Offhand Practice Folds a Natural History Cabinet of Curiosities into a Concrete Shell at Aranya Guangzhou
A 155 m² specimen shop at Jiulong Lake, Guangzhou, where walnut cabinetry and collected antiques sit inside raw concrete without pretending to be old.
Caspar Schols Raises a Kinetic Steel Meditation Box Seven Meters Above a Dutch Meadow
In the Netherlands, De-Vice is a 10 m² weathering steel tower where participants slowly open an enclosed box to the landscape through movement.
Faces of the Soviet Avant-Garde: Turning Moscow's Street Names into an Open-Air Museum
A network of sculptural installations across a Moscow residential district transforms forgotten architect names into spatial encounters with cultural memor
coletivo 624 Builds a Curved Timber Listening Wall for Anonymous Confessions in a Montpellier Courtyard
In Montpellier, a 10 m² timber and red-fabric installation collects anonymous secrets and replays them as a shared, evolving urban soundscape.
SP(R)INT STUDIO and Nissen Richards Studio Turn a Mývatn Visitor Center into a Window on Volcanic Iceland
In Mývatn, North Iceland, a light-touch interior refit lets lava fields, pseudo craters and the lake carry the exhibition rather than compete with it.
A New Wood: A Spiritual Journey Through Forest Paths, Faith, and Free Will
Three elevated timber walkways through a dense forest reinterpret Little Red Riding Hood as a spatial system of choice and consequence.
OOOarchitecture Wraps a Chiba Day Center for Neurodivergent Children Around a Courtyard of Discovery
In Chiba, Japan, a U-shaped day-care center for children with developmental disabilities turns corridors, benches and decks into a landscape for play.
agence ontwerp Reworks a 1958 Rotterdam Gallery-Flat Apartment Around an Eight-Metre Plywood Storage Wall
On the seventh floor of Harry Nefkens' 1958 gallery-flat in Rotterdam, a 90 m² apartment is rebuilt around bare concrete, birch plywood and a long view.
Mineral Cave: Sunlight as a Playground Material in a Refugee Camp
A compact, vertically oriented play structure uses coloured translucent surfaces and shifting daylight to create sensory architecture for children in Samos
Insight Architects Builds a Riverside Deadwood Hut in Huizhou for Insects, Plants and Microbes
On the Xutian River in Huizhou, a 20 m² open shelter of salvaged riverside deadwood, stone and steel rethinks the hut as habitat for non-human life.
TAUTEM Architecture Turns a Former Montpellier Daycare into a Social Hub Wrapped Around a Garden
Between Montpellier's Arceaux and Figuerolles districts, a grocery, kitchen and shelter share restored arches and a garden-facing timber wing.
Playducation: Modular Geometry That Embeds Learning Inside Refugee Play Spaces
A polyhedral exoskeleton system positions climbing, building, and exploration around existing open ground within refugee settlements.
studio apaaar Builds a Raw Concrete Museum of Humanity Around a Split Tower in Tulapur, India
In Tulapur near Pune, a 181 m² concrete pavilion borrows from cremation-ground ritual to stage light, water and introspection.
extrastudio Paints an 1893 Lisbon House Ultramarine and Cuts It Open into a Triple-Height Home
In Lisbon's Marvila district, the first of extrastudio's casas poveras extends a modest 1893 house in single-day lime plaster and bare scratch coat.
Spaces Architects@ka Bends a Delhi House into Continuous Curves Shaped Around Commissioned Art
In Ashok Vihar, New Delhi, a 9,000 sq ft house on a 240-square-yard plot treats its walls, ceilings and stairs as surfaces for bespoke art.
Vão Tilts Colored Walls Beneath an Exposed Truss Roof to Stage a Brazilian Exhibition on the Body
In Brazil, Vão stages Explicit Bodies, Hidden Bodies with slanted maroon, orange and red walls that turn a 550 m² truss hall into a run of thresholds.
Space Encounters Builds a Sealed, Demountable 18-Metre Cube for a Private Art Collection in Arnhem
At Cleantech Park Arnhem, a reflective steel cube shelters the 450-work Collectie DE.GROEN and is engineered to be taken apart one day.
Arealis Brasil Wraps a São Paulo Office for Everis's Creative Arm Around a Glowing Curved Counter
In Brooklin Paulista, a 300 m² office for the creative agency Chazz uses timber, metal mesh and ribbed green glass to blur workspace and pub.
ARCHETONIC Wraps a Roma Suite Building in Operable Green Fins Beside a Mature Street Tree
On Calle Colima in Mexico City's Roma, ARX pairs board-formed concrete, local clay brick and movable metal fins around twin light courtyards.
MMBB, JPG.ARQ and Ben-Avid Flood Brazil's Expo 2020 Dubai Pavilion with a Walkable Sheet of Water
In Dubai, Brazil's Expo pavilion stretches a tensile fabric box over a shallow flooded square, inviting visitors to wade through projected rivers.
