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.
Popular projects
View all 81 projects
Latest journals
View all 94 journals
Breathing-scape: A Moss-Canopied Park in China That Treats Clean Air as a Shared Public Room
Winding trails, moon gates and arch bridges thread a park where tree-like moss canopies are proposed as filters for some of the world's most polluted air.
KPF Wraps a Taiwanese Waste Recycling Plant in a Public Fern Garden, Exhibition Hall and Roof Terrace
In Xiulin Township, Eastern Taiwan, TCC's DAKA recycling center puts its waste pit on public view and layers learning spaces around the machinery.
gaSSz arquitectos Builds a Demountable Circular-Economy Garden from Rubble and Tires in Madrid's Vicálvaro
In Vicálvaro, Madrid, a 2,400 m² garden of bolted yellow steel, rubble gabions and tire-rubber paving treats public space as a reversible material bank.
andblack design studio Wraps a Three-Generation Ahmedabad Home Around a Planted, Skylit Central Courtyard
In Ahmedabad, a 9,910 sq ft house uses exposed concrete, brick jali and a skylit green court to give three generations both distance and closeness.
