Natural Architecture
Architecture and design that integrates natural systems, materials, and ecological principles into built environments.
Clad in Clay
Along the Coast A narrative of architecture that emerges, rather than one that is imposed. Every land possesses its own narrative—one that has taken shape over time, under the sun, in the path of the wind, and through the interplay of water and earth—long before it ever hosted architecture. What we call the architectural identity of a land today is not merel
Mono in Mist: A Castle Wall Rebuilt in Water Hides Three Sunken Meditation Gardens in Fukuoka
Below a public park of pools and mist, a waterfall-ringed basin turns meditation, hotel rooms and a castle-wall metaphor into one descending journey.
Verne Arquitectura Sinks a Timber-Roofed Pelota Court into the Medieval Fabric of Aguilar de Codés
In Navarre, a semi-buried frontón replaces a ruined house in Aguilar de Codés, keeping its stone face while a timber truss sifts southern light.
FMD Architects Sinks a Melbourne Family House into Its Slope Beneath a Garden Inspired by Babylon
In Melbourne's north-east, Babylonia Residence sinks 928 m² of timber, concrete and stone into a slope beneath a suspended rear garden.
Offhand Practice Folds a Natural History Cabinet of Curiosities into a Concrete Shell at Aranya Guangzhou
A 155 m² specimen shop at Jiulong Lake, Guangzhou, where walnut cabinetry and collected antiques sit inside raw concrete without pretending to be old.
Dom Arquitectura Sets a Stone-Pier House at the Top of a Costa Brava Slope to Give the Garden to the Pool
In Montràs on the Costa Brava, a 735 m² single-level home uses rubble stone piers, oak and deep porches to make outdoor living the daily default.
Austin Sandy Architects Turns a Dark Danville Ranch House Toward Its Garden with Oak, Concrete and Glass
In Danville, California, a chopped-up vintage T-plan ranch becomes a family home of oak slat screens, concrete floors and glass walls facing the garden.
Not a Number Architects Splits a Halkidiki Stone House into a Tower and a Long Wing Beneath Ancient Olive Trees
A 200 m² retreat in Halkidiki, Greece, reworks the rubble stone house as a tower, a planted bar and porches threaded through ancient olives.
Raulino Silva Turns His Grandparents' 1936 House in Rural Vila do Conde into His Own Architecture Studio
In Bagunte, Portugal, a granite family house gains white marble-floored rooms and a walled gravel courtyard without pretending the new part is old.
3XN, B+H and ZHUBO Design Shape the Shenzhen Natural History Museum as a Walkable Geological Landscape
Beside Yanzi Lake in Shenzhen's Pingshan District, a 105,300 m² museum folds its galleries under a public roof that behaves like a river-carved hillside.
HabitArt Architecture Studio Builds a Brick and Clay-Tile House Beneath a Tamil Nadu Mango Orchard
In Chembarasanapalli, a 2,700 sq ft family home lets mature mango trees set the plan, the shade and the light, with brick, timber and terracotta jali.
Iterare Arquitectos Nests a New White House Inside an Old Brick Shell on a Torrefiel Corner in Valencia
In Valencia's working-class Torrefiel, Casa Nido keeps a humble brick facade and its stucco cornice, then grows a courtyard house inside and above it.
Austin Sandy Architects Builds an Open Timber Pavilion for Community Life on a Petaluma Organic Farm
A 1,200 sq ft timber pavilion in Petaluma, California, gives a certified organic farm one deep roof for dinners, festivals, classes and daily work.
Pereira Miguel Arquitectos Scatters a Concrete Courtyard House Along a Pine Forest Edge in Grândola
In Grândola, Portugal, the Muda L11 House splits into board-formed concrete pavilions linked by timber boardwalks between pine woods and a stream.
Felipe Caboclo Weaves Concrete, Timber and Tropical Garden into a Low Country House in Bragança Paulista
In rural São Paulo state, Casa Tear interlaces a concrete and glulam grid with Alex Hanazaki's gardens, keeping its 1,200 m² low against the horizon.
MACh Architects and Connatural Build a Park-Territory to Help Córrego do Feijão Stay Rooted After the Dam Collapse
In Córrego do Feijão, Brazil, a slatted lookout tower, brick halls and stone gardens give a community scarred by disaster a reason to remain.
OUT Architecture Turns a Coffee Cup Stain into a Broken Ring of Benches on a London Market Corner
A broken ring of steel and cork benches outside an Aldgate café reclaims an overlooked Petticoat Lane corner for the London Festival of Architecture 2026.
CAW Arquitectos Stabilizes an Antofagasta Hillside with Planted Terraces and Slatted Timber Shade
In Antofagasta's Las Brisas sector, a 13,500 m² park uses vegetation, stone terraces and timber canopies as living infrastructure on unstable ground.
Insight Architects Builds a Riverside Deadwood Hut in Huizhou for Insects, Plants and Microbes
On the Xutian River in Huizhou, a 20 m² open shelter of salvaged riverside deadwood, stone and steel rethinks the hut as habitat for non-human life.
Rogoski Arquitetura Raises a Folded Steel-and-Timber Chapel on a Lakeside Deck in the Brazilian Amazon
In Cacoal, Rondônia, a 61 m² chapel hovers on a circular deck, wrapping a warm timber interior in dark metal and opening to the forest through triangles.
