What content can I find in Open Structure?

The Open Structure topic on uni.xyz features projects, journals, publications, and competitions from designers worldwide. Browse curated content to discover creative work and inspiration in this field.

How do I follow topics on UNI?

To follow a topic on uni.xyz, visit the topic page and click the "Follow" button. You'll receive updates when new projects, journals, or competitions are added to topics you follow.

Can I suggest a new topic?

UNI topics are curated by our editorial team. If you believe a design discipline or subject is missing, you can reach out through our contact page with your suggestion.

How can I contribute to Open Structure?

Create projects and journals tagged with Open Structure to contribute to this topic. Your work will appear in the topic feed for others to discover and engage with.

Open Structure: Projects, Journals & Ideas

43 Projects 10 Journals 1 Competitions

About Discussions Projects43 Journals10 Competitions1

Open structure encompasses architectural and design approaches that prioritize adaptability, community engagement, and spatial flexibility. These designs respond to changing needs and diverse users by incorporating modular systems, removable elements, and inclusive planning strategies.

The community explores frameworks for growth and transformation, from modular housing that adapts to residents' evolving lives to flexible learning environments and community-run spaces. Projects range from playground design and urban retrofitting to nature-integrated architecture, all emphasizing how openness enables structures to serve multiple purposes and users.

Top contributors

Paul Suendermann Maja Leichtner3 works

Raquibul Bhuiyan1 work

niyati gala1 work

Add your Open Structure projectPublish your work on uni.xyz and it appears in this topic for everyone exploring it.Publish a project

Selen and 2 others

169

CUBE(ish)

People are in a rush between their home and workplaces. They sometimes miss the opportunity to pause, look around and feel good. At this point in-between spaces (between home and workplace) in cities draw attention. Our concept is an in-between space which creates an escape point from daily rush.

127

Compact library run by the community

A modern library has to be more than an information storage, but a new place of unity and development for the community.

linda

127

Exploring the Milky Way

The project aims to create an interactive open space that allows for free movement in the project , between the the volumes that make up the project . The concept is inspired from the space where the planets and stars are dynamically placed forming the milky way.

Caroline and 2 others

Wander to Wonder

An architectural intervention that addresses the design of playgrounds through a modular system that stimulate the imagination of children living in the Kutupalong refugee camp.

Raquibul and 2 others

(UN)BOX

(UN)BOX aims to empower the people and children to play and build. The modular arrangement creates flexibility to explore and create their own space. The strategic approach to explore the space to learn and play in three different scales create a holistic approach to find solutions at a macro level and provide connectivity.

jgfrontado

Urban Retrofit The Collective and the Individual

Architectural competition

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.

Atousa and Amirhossein

Hamlet

Most of the orphanage build as an institution with the strong burden with society this institutionalize isolate the orphans make their life harder than it used to be we believe everything can change in the sack of hamlet .hamlet is a place where the orphans can learn from each other and build a community, hamlet is a village for orphans

Nenad

All that is solid melts into air

This research led design frames a response to a contemporary challenge posed by technological crusade of the countryside. The design aims to reconcile two main domains, public and private. The main influence was derived from a typical country house in Vojvodina.