Green Architecture
Architecture and design that integrates natural systems, sustainable materials, and ecological restoration into built environments.
Green architecture combines environmental responsibility with spatial design, creating buildings and landscapes that work with natural processes rather than against them. This approach addresses climate impact, human wellbeing, and ecosystem health through material choices, structural systems, and site integration.
The community explores projects ranging from residential spaces and urban gardens to large-scale interventions like vertical forests and timber-based climate systems. Work here examines how architecture can restore landscapes, filter pollution, harvest resources, and create restorative experiences within cities and natural settings.
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View all 101 journalsLiving Hallow: Interwoven Futures: A Settlement That Grows Its Own Building Material
A Johannesburg proposal plants fibrous crops to heal its ground, then imagines homes, courtyards and public spaces built from what it harvests.
Grassroots: Lattice Domes and Gravel Yards Turn a Walled Indian Block into a Preschool
A shortlisted pre-education school proposal scatters timber-ribbed pods across an enclosed courtyard, letting play, planting and lessons share one ground.
Soul Hug: A Vine-Wrapped Tower That Pushes Gardens Into Every Floor, Room and Window
A cylindrical residential tower in China carries planting from a ground-level park to sky gardens and bedrooms, chasing biophilia at every scale.
David Saik Studio Turns a 1940s Venice Sewing Factory into a Zero-Energy House for Emeco
In Venice, Los Angeles, a former sewing shop becomes Emeco's solar-powered gallery and guesthouse, organized around a cactus growing through a light well.