Natural Architecture
Architecture and design that integrates natural systems, materials, and ecological principles into built environments.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Making architecture that is really sustainable
Design for kids where 'Form Follows Climate'
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.
Architecture as a practice of re-grounding and restoring the sensitivity of place
This dissertation counters how globalization and ocularcentrism erode spatial identity, proposing architecture as a memory-bearing palimpsest. The framework is applied to Krakow's Krowodrza district (Poland), where a historic river landscape, once shaping a green gardening area, is now a dense city centre. By revealing 'traces of (in)presence', the work revitalizes this eclipsed heritage, advocating an "architecture of re-grounding."
Moving Through the Mangrove: Sustainable Architecture Inspired by Vietnam’s Coastal Ecology
Moving Through the Mangrove reimagines sustainable architecture as a vibrant fish market inspired by ecology, culture, trade and urban life.
Small Houses Together: Sustainable Tropical Architecture for Music, Community, and Recovery
Small Houses Together reimagines sustainable tropical architecture as a volcanic island retreat where music, community and landscapes unite.
Earth Side: Between the Ground and the Returning Body
Loss is not life’s interruption but its condition. This research reimagines the hospice in Montagu, Western Cape, as a threshold rather than a terminus, mediating private, communal and inherited grief. In a South Africa where apartheid’s death geographies still shape who dies with dignity, access to care remains uneven. Moving beyond clinical models, the project foregrounds emotional, spiritual and ancestral dimensions of dying, positioning architecture as an act of care, repair and passage.
Baoyi Huang Landscape Architecture Portfolio
This portfolio explores how landscape design can create meaningful connections between people, nature and place. Through ecological restoration, urban transformation and inclusive public spaces, the projects investigate how landscapes can support resilient environments and enrich everyday experiences.
