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Local stone connects buildings to their geography and geological history. Using stone from nearby sources reduces environmental impact while creating material authenticity that reflects regional character and craftsmanship traditions.The community explores stone as both structural and expressive material: from pavilions treating stone alongside wood as equal design partners, to homes wrapped in rescued sandstone, cultural centers composed of scattered stone volumes, and branded spaces where stone becomes the entire design language.

Toni and 3 others

Turf Student Housing Design Challenge

Interconnecting Paths: Converging and forming healthy communities in student housing with the goal of bringing life back to Manila.

Ernest and Kasia

CENTER FOR FAITH AGNOSTICS - Into the beating core

Project of the temple for faith agnostics oriented around the idea of a beating heart.

Colton

DISEMBARKED

“The cabin in the forest, on the banks of a quiet lake or buried in the wilderness back of beyond, is an expression of man’s desire to escape the exactions of civilization and secure rest and seclusion by a return to the primitive.” ~ From the epigraph of William A. Bruette’s 1934 book, Log Camps & Cabins. A Green Retreat in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Rungpairin and No

STACKED - living in and out of cubes

The project aims to animate a more open co-living where privacy is reduced to only a bed and the restroom.

simge and Bilge Nur

VITRIOL(Museum of Stone)

In the Vitriol museum, which we have designed with spaces with different publicities in different levels, we aimed to design walls that establish the spaces with local stones from the region. Walls of various formations played a role in the different levels of light of the spaces and the formation of spatial influence.

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publishedBlog2 months ago

Common Wonder Builds a 14-Square-Meter Pavilion That Treats Stone and Wood as Equal Voices

A garden studio in Amsterdam distills the raw tension between French limestone and timber into a single, precise room.

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publishedBlog2 months ago

4Brick Studio Wraps a Bangalore Home in Rescued Sandstone for Two Doctors Seeking Quiet

On the city's edge in Bidadi, a courtyard house built from discarded quarry stone becomes a retreat for art, bonsai, and daily decompression.

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publishedBlog5 months ago

Line+Studio and GAD Scatter Five Stone Volumes Across a Yunnan Hilltop to Form a Cultural Center

In Mile, China, red earth pigment and canyon-like spaces turn a terraced plateau into a geological event disguised as architecture.

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publishedBlog5 months ago

Order Matter Distills an Entire Brand Identity into 39 Square Meters of Stone in Seoul

The ST01 flagship near Hakdong Station treats stone not as surface decoration but as the singular argument of the space.

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