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Overhead Building: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Overhead building explores architectural strategies where new structures are positioned above, within, or integrated into existing buildings. This approach addresses spatial constraints, adaptive reuse, and vertical densification in urban environments.

The community examines projects that stack offices and residences on rooftops, insert contemporary interventions into historic warehouses, suspend structures in mid-air, and wrap towers with layered systems. Work ranges from postindustrial conversions and memorial structures to green-terraced office buildings and naturally ventilated stacked housing.

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UNI Editorial13 works

Katarzyna Chłodek1 work

Teby Kurian1 work

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Nejan and 3 others

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Equilibrium

These annex structures are placed on to the existing buildings and act like plug-ins; they create a symbiotic relationship with the building it attaches to.

Krissh and 3 others

418

Language Cons(v)erv(s)ation

The Language knowledge center aims at conserving languages by taking into account the historical significance, preserving the present diversity, and propagating a linguistically rich future.

Khadidja and 2 others

296

The Hovering Building

This structure aims to create a form that acts as an exhibition object for architecture while including activities of leisure and education. The programs are architecture-related and the user target of this building is mainly craft's people. Although it is designed to attract tourists as well as locals.

Rabah and 2 others

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HYBRID TOWER

2050 VISION SKYSCRAPER

Gracia

Shanghai Street Imagined

In the middle of the busy Mong Kok area sits a cluster of newly revitalized Hong Kong tenement buildings from the 1920s. Our team explores this site on how a small-scaled parasitic architecture affects the appearance and program of a large-scaled building while maintaing its original features.

Katarzyna

Postindustrial Lighthouse

Inspired by movement of air and water, as well as industrial character of oil rigs, Postindustrial Lighthouse has emerged. Prefabricated, modular boxes, by multiplication and protrusion, create engaging space that encourages visitors to explore the building and sink into a world of contemporary art.

Faiq

Protest for Baldia factory Karachi (Remembrance)

This is a case study of ‘the most terrifying event’ of Baldia Town Factory Karachi-Pakistan, an unfortunate garments facility and exporters that suffered from devastating fire accident on 9/11 of 2012.

Swapnil

Biomimetics: An environmental sensitive approach

The approach aims to challenge the common belief that due to their height contemporary tall buildings cannot be ventilated and lightened naturally and also provide break from typical hermetic glass boxes.

Elaheh

Dopamine Gaming Center

Nowadays the concept of gaming has been completely changed, when we think about gaming we think about the digital and virtual world. A world that is intangible and can’t be physically felt. As a group of youths who enjoy video games and had enough knowledge about this field, we decided to design a building suitable for all kinds of gamers.

Charisse

Of Water & Spirit

This proposal draws from Ravenna’s early Christian baptisteries and postwar industrial history, in the hope of creating a public space that confronts visitors with the weight of its history, and inspires them by its connection to nature.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

ODA Raises a 155-Metre Tower from the Courtyard of Rotterdam's Historic Post Office

In central Rotterdam, ODA's POST tower rebuilds a 1920s post office's arches as a porous, balconied frame climbing 155 metres above a national monument.

Public Building

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 months ago