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Open Building

Architectural approaches to flexible, adaptable buildings that respond to changing needs and community participation.

58 Projects 60 Publications 60 Journals

Ricardo

Typological Re-generation of Terzo Palazzo

This project reimagines the 1973 Terzo Palazzo by Franco Albini, Franca Helg and Antonio Piva — a key building within ENI’s company town of San Donato Milanese — as a living organism capable of adapting to contemporary forms of dwelling.

Mubarak

Common Grounds

This project reimagines the educational environment for out-of-school children through an architecture of care, healing, and inclusion. Designed as a hybrid learning ecosystem, the proposal integrates spaces for education, therapy, recreation, and community engagement to support both academic and emotional development.

Nicodesign and 2 others

LIANA

In order to optimize life in communities, the Liana city project is thought to enable citizens to live near their work space, allowing families to spend some quality time together throughout the day. it was designed to bring every substantial aspect of one’s routine closer to their home.

KUBRA

CO-BIOPHILIC

Co-Biophilic is the name of a co-working office where old and new combine through biophilic design.

dln

THE LEARNING CUBES

The learning cubes project offers an in between recreative space around the perimeter of the building. It accommodates a system of modular panels-reconfigurable material systems

jeongsook and DASOM

AMS - LINK COMMUNITY CENTER

Amsterdam's Link Community Center(aka AMS - LINK COMMUNITY CENTER) proposes a new canal and link bridge. Through this, interactions between locals, international students, and people of various nationalities are drawn.

Ramses

Integration through COLLISION

Reinterpreting the community center from a space to meet to a place to live.

Mutaz

Community Innovation And Entrepreneurship Center

A center that aims to give the local community a place to promote and direct their ideas into real businesses and projects that support the local economy, in addition to a suitable and stimulating environment that supports creators

Ilgin

Terra-Cube

Terra-cube is a new formation that integrates with the roads around it and provides social and educational spaces to the city. In this formation, volumes of different sizes come together to form a terrace. People can perform various activities on these terraces overlooking the forest, which can be used in different periods according to their needs.

Thanos

PLUG-IN HOSTEL

THE WHOLE BUILDING IS ‘‘LOOKED AFTER’’ BY THE AI THAT IS INTEGRATED WITHIN EACH ROOM AND PUBLIC AMENITIES, COLLECTING DATA, PROCESSING AND SUGGESTING NEW ACTIVITIES AND SPACES THAT COULD HELP WITH THE INTEGRATION OF THE NEW-COMERS + CREATE A SELF SUSTAINED ENVIRONMENT

Robert and 3 others

Courtyard Living

The project proposes housing that reflects Bolgatanga’s culture and lifestyle by incorporating the spatial arrangement of the region’s traditional compound houses and courtyards, which encourage community engagement among inhabitants.

Robert and Declan

Terra Firma

Positioned only a couple miles from the bustling city center, Terra Firma blends into the existing urban fabric by incorporating aspects of the live/work clusters that immediately surround the site, defining a unique yet complimentary cluster to be a place that embraces people of the present and future.