Performative Landscape
Landscapes and spaces designed to engage users through interaction, experience, and social participation.
BRBB Architects Stack Timber Gables on a Concrete Plinth for an Elderly Couple's Mountain Retreat
In a small Gangwon Province village, two rotated volumes frame a valley, a stream, and a quieter chapter of 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.
Snøhetta Turns a Brutalist Theater Outside Paris into a Glowing Urban Lantern
The Nanterre-Amandiers renovation folds park, city, and public life into a 10,000 m² glass-and-concrete stage for cultural democracy.
MINOR lab Stitches Three Leftover Spaces into a Community Art Ecosystem in Langfang
A café, gallery, and artist studio carved from residential surplus in a Hebei housing development prove small-scale renewal works.
liveraniandrea Folds a Corten Steel Origami into a Performance Pavilion for a Korean Sculpture Park
A 280 square meter stage canopy in Daegu's Sayuwon Park channels origami logic through weathered steel and acoustic precision.
Machine Made Landscapes: Turning a Closed Bengaluru Quarry into a Public Ecological Park
Karan Anand treats the cliffs, pits and flooded voids of the 152-acre Betthalasuru quarry as ground to build on, not scars to erase.
Transforming Landscapes: An Archaeological Architecture at Keeladi That Grows With the Dig
Namrata Narendra's UnIATA '19 proposal for Keeladi phases architecture over a decade, letting shelters, paths and platforms follow the excavation.
The Untrodden Trail: Stitching Al-Baqourah's Border Ruins into a Walkable Heritage Landscape
A thesis trail along the Hejaz Railway threads corten, concrete and glass through ruins at the Jordan-Yarmouk junction to reclaim memory without erasure.
Ephemeral Living: Reversible Architecture for India's Pilgrimage Landscapes
A thesis project proposes modular, cyclical architecture that assembles for pilgrims and dissolves back into the land when they leave.
Landscape of the Senses: Architecture as a Multisensory Journey Along the Coast
Mateusz Mulica's conceptual project stretches white monolithic volumes into the sea, designing spaces for hearing, sight, smell, and touch.
Reaction Field by Yong Ju Lee Architecture: A Dynamic Urban Landscape Installation in Seoul
A curving, algorithm-driven public installation in Seoul that blends art, landscape, and furniture to create a dynamic, interactive urban gathering space.
Dali Transformer Factory Theatrical District by Atelier Alter Architects: A Surreal Industrial Park Reborn as a City-Within-a-Theatre
A transformed industrial factory becomes a surreal theatrical district, merging immersive performance, digital art, and architecture into a dynamic cultural landscape in Dali.
