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Local Buildings: Projects, Journals & Ideas

55 Projects 28 Journals 16 Publications

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Local buildings represent structures designed to respond to their immediate surroundings and communities. These projects demonstrate how architecture engages with existing urban fabrics, cultural traditions, and environmental conditions at a neighborhood scale.

The community explores adaptive reuse and community-focused facilities, contextual infill that negotiates between different building typologies, revival of regional architectural traditions, and integration of buildings into natural and built landscapes. Work ranges from compact community libraries and chapels to residential towers and mixed-use developments that address specific local needs.

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jarett messina2 works

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Nishant and 3 others

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BRAID

Culture and Learning Centre Rajagiriya, Colombo A cultural and learning center for the people of Sri Lanka which welcomes people of all groups and encourages and promotes the traditional culture of Sri Lanka. Braid is a center which encapsulates flexible spaces enabling collaborating and outdoor learning.

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Compact library run by the community

A modern library has to be more than an information storage, but a new place of unity and development for the community.

maria lucilla and 3 others

Eco Chapel - Leaf

The “Leaf” expresses a renewed conception of space, an incursion of nature into a strongly urbanized territory connected in actions and thoughts to nature. The design of a chapel and a forest in an eco perspective. A green avenue around which germinate buildings, evoking the forms of seeds and giving space to contemplation, prayer, leisure and laboratory.

Nilay

Redefining the Urban Fabric of Manek Chowk,Ahmedabad

The project aims to design & solve built forms and public open spaces addressing typologies of housing and shops in high-density areas of Indian markets situated in an urban context evolved over the years. It retains the heritage aspect by resolving streetscape, elevated housing units, shop typologies and the addition of library, museum & exhibition spaces.

Yadu and 3 others

SECOND THOUGHT

A multi-arts center with a new vision for India to prosper

Ishan and Abhilash

The Hive

The Hive is a "Social Housing" proposal in the Netherlands which approaches affordable housing with modular timber construction. Our aim is to create beautiful community spaces that include every inhabitant. The building modules are designed around two community courtyards which help create a variety in space.

Rose

Collab

Our team designed an office building that is flexible, collaborative, sustainable and adaptable- we named it Collab. Collab will transform a tired and gloomy office into a motivated and inspirational one – which will eventually reflect positively on the overall business performance.

Fran

Life Within 1 Km : A Microtown in Megacity

Nowadays, technology and modernism have caused the endless urban sprawl. Workers have to spend 1/8 of their day to commute, which has caused people's lack of belonging to their hometown. By combining living ,working and recreation within a reachable living sphere, we provide an opportunity for young immigrants and local neighbors to live together.

Riyadh and 2 others

Museum of Materials

The story behind our Museum of Materials is constructing the feelings of a visitor before entering the museum. We want to enrich the visitors experience of tactile and visualization as they go through the journey of our museum.

Páricsy and 4 others

CAPSULEDONJON

The major concept of the design is to place a compact container building in the fabric of an established big city environment, a building that takes the smallest possible space.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 months ago

Simplex Architecture Steps a Seoul Mid-Rise Tower to Negotiate Between Low-Rise Commerce and High-Rise Housing

In Seocho-dong, a gridded stone tower of terraces and sunken courtyards mediates between two radically different urban scales.

Ai Generated

Building Prototype

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 months ago

DIM Architecture Studio Revives the Iranian Courtyard Inside a Mashhad Apartment Building

A 2,500-square-meter mid-rise infill project reinterprets the traditional hashti and central courtyard within the dense urban fabric of Mashhad, Iran.

Residential Complex

Inward Building

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago