Natural Architecture
Architecture and design that integrates natural systems, materials, and ecological principles into built environments.
The Amber Palace Opera: A Geological Fiction Surfaces on Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
Pierre Brillard reimagines a Baltic legend as a public landscape, opera house, and waterfront promenade rooted in Tallinn's coastal identity.
BIO-HOMe, In Praise of Shadows
It has probably happened to all of us that when we were children, we used to lift rocks near the riverbed to surprise the strange insects that were hiding under them in the dark. We, humans, are no different from those insects in terms of preferring the safe space of shadows. That's why we chose shadows to design our house.
Opera on the Sea: Driftwood Logic Shapes a Timber Opera House on Estonia's Coast
Trevor Orgill's opera house translates the entangled drift of floating timber into a civic building where wood, water, and music converge.
Cloaked Colonization: A Mobile Underwater Habitat That Moves Like a Fish
Micah Abaya's shortlisted EHC Pacific entry reimagines ocean settlement as a dispersed network of self-sustaining architectural organisms.
GITONIA - DAFNIA
This contemporary residential masterplan reinterprets traditional Portuguese vernacular architecture through a clean, modern design language. The urban layout organizes modular residential blocks around a central circular public plaza paved in fine compacted gravel. Warm golden-yellow sedimentary sandstone defines the structural trims.
Animal Harbor: Rethinking the Shelter as a Civic Landscape in Bucharest
A sprawling complex of curved volumes, planted courtyards, and public programs repositions the animal shelter as a social destination.
Operative Sanctuary: Architecture Designed for Marine Life, Not Human Comfort
A speculative underwater habitat reframes sustainable architecture as ecological infrastructure for species threatened by ocean pollution.
Social Nature: Replacing Fences with Landscape to Rethink Animal Shelter Architecture
A layered system of habitats, elevated walkways, and modular pavilions creates a gradient from public park to protected animal territory.
Väike Linn: An Opera House That Grows from the Waterfront
Kristin Urbatzka's radial opera complex dissolves the boundary between cultural building and coastal landscape through curved volumes and public terrain.
A New Wood: A Spiritual Journey Through Forest Paths, Faith, and Free Will
Three elevated timber walkways through a dense forest reinterpret Little Red Riding Hood as a spatial system of choice and consequence.
The Soaring Bird: An Opera House Shaped by the Flight of Estonia's Barn Swallow
Four angular wings extend from a central auditorium on Tallinn's waterfront, translating avian movement into architectural geometry.
Mineral Cave: Sunlight as a Playground Material in a Refugee Camp
A compact, vertically oriented play structure uses coloured translucent surfaces and shifting daylight to create sensory architecture for children in Samos
Wadi Rum Observatory: Desert Architecture Designed for the Night Sky
Wadi Rum Observatory turns desert architecture into a quiet instrument for astronomy, hiding research spaces under Jordan's starlit terrain.
Kids Need Fun + Play: Modular Playground Architecture Designed for Learning, Creativity and Community
A modular bamboo playground turns local materials into flexible spaces for climbing, learning, shelter, creativity, and shared play for all.
BIO-SPACES FABRIC: Biophilic Architecture Reconnects Urban Living with Nature in Hong Kong
BIO-SPACES FABRIC reimagines Hong Kong homes through biophilic architecture weaving gardens, water, and wildlife into one connected habitat.
Hjerta: Sustainable Architecture Reimagines Iceland’s Thermal Bath Tradition
Hjerta reimagines Icelandic thermal bathing through sustainable architecture, sensory design, local materials, landscape, and civic culture.
FOLDINGS: Sustainable Architecture Shaped by Nature, Landscape and Community
Foldings blends sustainable architecture, volcanic tuff stone and timber into a coastal Montserrat retreat shaped by nature music and place.
Here Comes The Sun: Sustainable Architecture Reconnects Music, Landscape and Community in Montserrat
Here Comes The Sun reimagines sustainable architecture in Montserrat as a musical retreat where landscape, culture and community reconnects.
Tropical House: A Musical Retreat at the Edge of the Sea in Woodlands, Montserrat
A climate-responsive tropical architecture proposal in Montserrat where music, landscape, and community come together by the sea.
