Experiential Architecture
Architecture designed to engage the senses and emotions, creating immersive spatial experiences that shape how people interact with environments.
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.
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.
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
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.
