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Natural Architecture: Projects, Journals & Ideas

60 Projects 119 Journals 49 Publications 18 Competitions

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Natural architecture explores how design can work with rather than against natural processes. This includes biophilic design that connects occupants to nature, sustainable material use, and spatial strategies that respond to landscape and climate.

The community examines projects ranging from gardens and spiritual spaces to museums and large-scale interventions, investigating how architecture can harvest resources, support ecosystems, and create meaningful relationships between people and the natural world.

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Ailtire and 2 others

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Home Futura

Ho-World

laura and Fiama

SHIELD

Shield creates spaces that seek the congregation of all people who need a place of meditation. It proposes two contrasting levels, the lower one is isolated from noise and protected from the city with the intention of disconnecting you. On the other hand, the upper level proposes a green roof that connects you with nature, opening your view towards the park.

Sangeetha Palangat and Sindhu

OASIS

A refuge amidst the storm. A pause from the terrors of life. Oasis is that sanctuary in the desert where the soul is replenished. This proposal aims at celebrating life while acknowledging the inevitable. An ode to the celebration of Life no matter how little it may be.

Xianrong and 3 others

LINK

To help linking the elderly to the rest of the society, this senior activity center adapts an unique form that contains multiple gentle slopes that meandering through the woods and allows elderly to easily walk on. These slopes also create edges that is suitable for dynamic activities and attracts younger generation to interact with seniors on site.

Misak and Sepideh

Art Wave

This idea shows fully integrating building and site planning into the landscape planning process. Designing with pathways presents a spatial design approach for adaptive landscapes. This aim to study spatial design based on pathways can help develop more adaptive and sustainable landscapes.

Amir Hossein

In Praise of Shadows

It had probably happened to all of us that when we were children, we used to lift rocks near the riverbed to surprise the strange insects 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.

Yoshie

Spiritual Journey to Oneness

The building is a sacred place for people of all faiths, religion or background to connect with the Divine and their higher self (the real self, awakened aspects of oneself, assessing deeper truths and knowledge). It is designed beyond experience with a series of spaces that allows visitors to experience the process of spirituality.

Sevde and 2 others

The Nest-Oaois

Our project proposal offers us the experience of creating therapeutic spaces that, following the principles of biophilia, reintegrate with nature through the five senses, supporting the process of healing, repair, renewal and reintegration for the user.

Marc and 2 others

Alluvium

In a desert landscape, alluvium describes a natural process of depositing fertile soil in an otherwise barren landscape. Within this project, titled Alluvium, the natural flows and pattern language of the arid environment sculpt a diverse and rich community experience providing relief from the urban hardscape surrounding the site.

azadeh and 2 others

Glamour

A journey Through Desert

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

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.

Landscape Design

Hospitality Building

UNI Editorial

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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.

Vernacular Architecture

Natural Architecture

UNI Editorial

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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.

Residential Building

Landscape Design

UNI Editorial

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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.

Vernacular Architecture

Conservation Architecture