Green Roof
Integrating vegetation into building design and urban landscapes to create functional, ecological, and aesthetic spaces.
El Equipo Mazzanti Raises a Perforated Concrete Roof on Slanted Columns Among the Trees of a Santa Marta School
At a Santa Marta bilingual school, a 524 m² student center keeps its mature trees and uses a perforated concrete roof for shade, light and air.
taller paralelo and HRBT Raise a Glulam Greenhouse Roof over a Mexico City Community Orchard
A 36-metre timber and steel-cable canopy in Mexico City shelters fruit trees, exhibitions and a library under a translucent saw-tooth roof.
Overseas Oasis: A Sloped Green Roof That Lets the Park Climb Onto a Community Center
An Amsterdam community center pairs a walkable lawn roof with mesh-clad mobile rooms where students from abroad can meet local residents.
D Environmental Design System Laboratory Sinks an Ancient Pit Dwelling into a Passive House in Japan
In a quiet residential district of Iwata, a sunken garden replaces fire as the thermal heart of a cedar-framed home.
Wheeler Kearns Architects Grows a Working Greenhouse That Doubles as a Dining Hall on a Michigan Farm
A prefabricated Dutch Venlo greenhouse hosts seedling production, farm-to-table dinners, and community life in Three Oaks, Michigan.
BLDUS Builds a Bamboo Counterpoint to Philip Johnson's Glass House in Historic Anacostia
A 700-square-foot LEED Platinum structure in Washington D.C. rethinks transparency through willow, wool, and bamboo.
Vincent Callebaut Wraps 113 Montpellier Homes in Shell-Like Bioclimatic Facades
On the site of a former military school near Montpellier's historic center, sinuous exoskeletons breathe with the Mediterranean climate.
Caret Studio Gives a Tuscan Town Its Living Room Back with a Pink Glulam Pavilion
A rose-terracotta roof in Borgo San Lorenzo turns a historic fairground into a year-round civic stage for the Mugello region.
Vertical Park with Iranian Garden Approach: Stacking Garden Terraces into the Urban Infill Plot
Pourya Meshkati stacks timber garden platforms into an urban infill plot, turning the Iranian garden's terraces and shade into a vertical public park.
An Educational Urban Farm on a Parisian Rooftop: Learning, Cultivation, and Climate Intelligence by rerum architectes
A rooftop educational farm in Paris combining greenhouse, learning spaces, and urban agriculture to teach sustainability through architecture and cultivation.
Climate Membrane: Timber Ribs and Circular Geometry Shield Children from Urban Pollution
A shortlisted Form Follows Climate entry proposes a wood-framed community dome that filters air, buffers seasons, and centers child safety.
Restaurant by GreenHouse: A Diamond Lattice That Dissolves Architecture into Garden
Amir Ahmed's parametric dining concept fuses a diamond-patterned shell with living greenery, turning a restaurant into a breathing ecosystem.
