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 98 journalsDavid 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.
CnB Sustainable Market: A Timber Frame That Turns Shopping into Reducing, Reusing and Recycling
An open grid of timber modules, trellised cores and workshop rooms recasts the public market as a place to repair, swap and grow, not just to buy.
Earthen Angularity: A Stepped Tower in Accra That Grows a Garden Through Its Core
Tapering floor plates on angled struts wrap a leaf-lined atrium, staging a meeting between vernacular ground and modern frame in Accra.
Earthen Oasis: Mortarless Earth Blocks Stack a Shared Garden Into Accra Housing
Kente-patterned columns, interlocking earth walls and fish-filled pools turn an Accra housing block into a farm, a commons and a green refuge.