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Living with Nature

Architecture and design that integrates natural environments into living spaces and communities.

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A Path Towards Resilience Through Community-Driven Activities at Gora-Digha, Kishoreganj

In the ‘Haor’(Seasonal wetlands), where the ground disappears each monsoon, permanence is an illusion. This project imagines architecture not as a defense against water but as an instrument of continuity, an adaptive civic landscape that allows communities to gather, endure and sustain dignity amid recurring cycles of flood and retreat.

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A strong, context-sensitive thesis that thoughtfully addresses seasonal flooding through community-driven and adaptable architecture. Further development of the architectural drawings and flood-response details could strengthen the promising concept and its practical impact.

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Emma Salvia

Such a wonderful way of seeing, thinking and responding to one's surroundings. This project is truly thoughtful and deeply connected to it’s context. Bravo for the effort and dedication behind it!

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Nuswa Bhuvana, Marunda Across Nature

A Public Housing that integrates living activities with nature to mitigate the negative impacts of coal pollution. The project draws from the local agricultural heritage of Marunda, transforming it into a permaculture system (regenerative agriculture). This concept embedding permaculture directly into the living ecosystem through biophilic architecture.

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People's Choice AwardPeople's Choice AwardLive Green

Sylva Village

In today’s tech-driven world, where disconnection from nature and community is growing, architecture has the power to become a healing force. The Eco Village project in Roraima, Argentina, responds to global challenges such as climate change, social isolation, and ecological degradation by proposing a regenerative

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It is fantastic

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shima khatibi

Fasinating project inducing biophilic feeling

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you were great

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T.I.M.E. HEALS

Habitat when tarnished disrupts lifestyle causing emotional, mental and financial losses which creates scars forever. So, it is necessary to heal from the beginning by converting the exhausting period of struggle into a motivating environment with interactive neighbourhood. Our system unites the community by various incremental measure at different levels.

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Community-Based Eco-Tourism At Madhupur Sal Forest

The Mass Tourism practice has hugely impacted the communities and eco-system of Bangladesh. This project aims to create a sustainable Community-Based tourism model which will work for the holistic development of the underprivileged Garo community and the deteriorating eco-system of Madhupur.

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Editor's ChoiceEditor's ChoiceDwell One

Dwell (eve

Shuhei Aoyama
Juror

Focusing on boundaries, privacy, community, level, sustainability, modular construction is good, but designed spaces looks a bit boring or noisy (specially wood louver on facade and solar power roof top.) And presentation should be more sophisticated both exterior and interior renderings. Idea should be presented in more simple way.

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People's Choice AwardPeople's Choice AwardBio-Wellness

The Nest-Oaois

Our project proposal offers us the experience of creating spaces that can create a therapeutic experience for the user, and that, by designing the materials used in accordance with the principles of biophilia, supports the healing, repair, renewal and reintegration process that brings complete mental and physical well-being to the sustainable

Yağmur Kemancı

The best project I have ever seen.Congratulations

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Bennu Erdem

Great design, well done.

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Johannes Zimmer

Best project ever. Good luck

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Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter Turns a Danish Merchant Estate into a Fjord-Side Art and Nature Destination

SMK Thy and The Nature Village bring the National Gallery of Denmark to a historic trading complex on the Limfjord in Northern Jutland.

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter Turns a Danish Merchant Estate into a Fjord-Side Art and Nature DestinationReiulf Ramstad Arkitekter Turns a Danish Merchant Estate into a Fjord-Side Art and Nature Destination
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Richard Bennett
Juror

Really nice soft and low impact scheme. The use of natural materials and floating spaces is very imaginative.

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Faith Okuma
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Concentrate on building existing conditions analysis skills. The landscape context shown has absolutely no relationship to the location the project is said to be within. The Serengetti is a largely a grass based landscape with isolated trees. Not a jungle. The plant material used in the illustrations are jungle types. The elephant in one of the illustrations is an Asian elephant not an African elephant. These convey that no attempt was seriously made to understand the basic context of the project. Another major consideration is the language used in design concept is so negative and the imaging so dark and unappealing. If the project's point was that all such visitors centers are anathema to a whole world health of wildlife, it would have been stronger to make that case outright. And instead come up with your strongest solution to counter act that. Perhaps a remote immersive experience a whole continent away that has people engage through 3D, smell, and other now possible remote sensory experience. And, there by make it so they don't go the wild places and pollute them. If you want to be a great designer...Design solutions!!

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Editor's ChoiceEditor's ChoiceFootprints 2020

Footprints

This tropical retreat is an exploration of possibilities where people live in harmony with nature. By learning from the nature in place and the indigenous wisdom, our design emerges from and honors native context, becoming part of it, like trees in a forest, leaving a more regenerative footprint.

Mehar Saran Kaur

please make it free

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Institutional Excellence AwardInstitutional Excellence AwardAbode

Abode

The design is based on a sequential concept that allows for a significant impact beyond the site context. Regarding Biophilia's primary purpose of providing human wellness, the design focuses on fulfilling several personal engagement instances with nature through modular customizable

Rebe García

Great Project! Outstanding job!

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Ana Corado

Excellent proyect and creative idea. Love the graphics.

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Rodrigo Carazo
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Very complete and clear proposal. The project would have been much benefitted from a less rigid design approach in relation to the concept proposed. Great presentation

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Teitakusubako and Yusuke Igarashi Architects Dissolve a House into the Forest Edge in Zushi

A 215 m² residence on a generous Tokyo-suburban plot uses stone, timber, and fragmented volumes to blur the line between dwelling and woodland.

Teitakusubako and Yusuke Igarashi Architects Dissolve a House into the Forest Edge in ZushiTeitakusubako and Yusuke Igarashi Architects Dissolve a House into the Forest Edge in Zushi
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Damith S Munasinghe Folds Studio and Home into a Single 2400-Square-Foot Continuum in Sri Lanka

On a compact site in rapidly urbanizing Malabe, courtyards, portals, and planted rooftops blur the line between dwelling and design practice.

Damith S Munasinghe Folds Studio and Home into a Single 2400-Square-Foot Continuum in Sri LankaDamith S Munasinghe Folds Studio and Home into a Single 2400-Square-Foot Continuum in Sri Lanka
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People's Choice AwardPeople's Choice AwardFly

Nests

Realizing a mean to let the coexistence between man and the natural environment happen

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Common Woods: Housing That Lives Inside a Forest

Space&Matter's circular housing cluster in Amersfoort dissolves the boundary between neighborhood and nature with radical material honesty.

Common Woods: Housing That Lives Inside a ForestCommon Woods: Housing That Lives Inside a Forest
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Alive Residence: Harmonizing Urban Living with Nature in Pak Nam, Thailand

Alive Residence by Sa Ta Na Architects blends urban living with nature, featuring wooden facades, balcony gardens, natural light, privacy, and flexible family spaces.

Alive Residence: Harmonizing Urban Living with Nature in Pak Nam, ThailandAlive Residence: Harmonizing Urban Living with Nature in Pak Nam, Thailand
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House Between Trees by Barbara Berson: A Harmonious Blend of Architecture and Nature

House Between Trees by Barbara Berson harmoniously integrates architecture with nature, featuring courtyards, sustainable design, flexible spaces, and immersive tree-centered living.

House Between Trees by Barbara Berson: A Harmonious Blend of Architecture and NatureHouse Between Trees by Barbara Berson: A Harmonious Blend of Architecture and Nature
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