

Open Space
Design and architecture of open, flexible spaces that prioritize accessibility, community, and relationship to landscape.
Open space encompasses both natural and built environments designed to be accessible and adaptable. These spaces serve communities through thoughtful planning that considers how people move through, gather in, and experience their surroundings.
The community explores open space through cultural venues carved into landscapes, housing integrated with natural environments, modular performance spaces, and urban interventions that maximize limited plots. Projects range from hillside theaters and forest-embedded housing to compact mixed-use developments and public gathering areas.
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View all 52 journalsA FABRiCA and CGZ Architecture Fold a Corsican Hillside into an Open-Air Theater and Cultural Center
In Corbara, a 450-square-meter building dissolves into terraced ground, connecting village lanes to a panoramic rooftop plaza facing the Balagne landscape.
SOHO Architects Stacks Work and Living into a Pink Twin Block on a Tiny Plot in Calicut
On an 8.5-cent conserved site in Kerala, a compact mixed-use house layers terracotta, arched niches, and planted courtyards into a vertical life.
The Empty Space: Modular Units That Turn Plazas, Parks and Streets into Open Stages
Lianping Xia's runner-up Opera Truck entry reads Peter Brook's empty space as a modular framework that performers, audiences and cities keep redefining.
Common Woods: Housing That Lives Inside a Forest
Space&Matter's circular housing cluster in Amersfoort dissolves the boundary between neighborhood and nature with radical material honesty.