Living Building
Residential and mixed-use projects designed with sustainable materials, energy efficiency, and integrated living spaces.
Symbiotic Pack: A Foldable Modular Balcony Inspired by Space Station Logic
A retrofittable balcony system that folds, connects, and redeploys along building facades to restore outdoor living in dense housing.
ECOTent: Turning Shanghai's Balconies into a Living Agricultural Network
A modular retrofit system attaches greenhouse modules to existing residential balconies in Pudong, weaving food production and social life into the facade.
[To] SHARE: A Movable Balcony System That Treats Facades as Shared Infrastructure
An Uber-for-balconies concept retrofits a Singapore public housing block with a modular exoskeleton of mobile, shareable rooms.
U-BALCONY: Turning Shanghai's Standardized Façades into Frameworks for Individual Life
A modular retrofit system lets residents of Shanghai's workers' housing customize balconies for gardening, storage, leisure, and community life.
BUBHUB: Underwater Bubble Clusters That Grow Like Coral Reefs
A modular underwater habitat system designed to blur the line between architecture and marine ecosystem through biomimicry and incremental growth.
Biodiversity Lab: An Underwater Habitat That Grows Like a Coral Reef
A shortlisted entry for EHC Pacific reimagines the research laboratory as a modular, coral-compatible framework on the Great Barrier Reef seabed.
Algal Realm: A Lunar Habitat Where Biology Replaces Machinery
Bioengineered algae drive oxygen production, construction, food supply, and energy generation in this speculative Moon settlement.
BIO-SPACES FABRIC: A Kowloon Housing Tower Reimagined as a Vertical Landscape That Contains Homes
A shortlisted Abode entry that threads gardens, water, and shared rooms through a Hong Kong tower so that nature organizes daily life.
Conexión: Twin Kowloon Towers Where a Planted Bridge Turns Density into Daily Contact with Nature
An 11-level mixed-use scheme in Kowloon splits into two vine-clad volumes joined by a bridge, weaving vegetation, light and air through a dense site.
Hjerta: A Hveragerði Thermal Bath That Bends Around the Trails and River Already on Site
Nadia Cheng and Enoch Liu curl an Icelandic bathhouse around a courtyard, keeping the trail and river bridge intact while staging heat and cold.
Co-life: A Moroccan Medina Reimagined as a Shaded, Walkable Neighborhood for Older Adults
Nina Lipowska turns courtyards, rammed earth and narrow shaded lanes into a senior community built on short distances and everyday encounters.
Bunkertecture: A Winning Proposal That Turns a Missile Silo into a Daily Underground Community
A decommissioned missile silo becomes a self-sufficient settlement where housing, farming and work run every day, not only when disaster strikes.