Pocket Forest
Small-scale architectural and landscape interventions that integrate nature into built environments.
Read Studio Stacks a Concrete House Vertically to Let a Sri Lankan Garden Grow Around It
A 323-square-meter home in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte occupies a small footprint so mature trees, herbs, and fruit plants claim the rest of the site.
Atelier MA Builds a Twisting Timber Pavilion at the Edge of a French Forest Pond
Split chestnut shingles and triangulated larch frames welcome visitors to the Mormal forest in northern France's Avesnois region.
Rodrigo Nuñez Arquitectos Terraces a 900 m² Brick House into a Forest Edge in León
A single clay brick and timber define a dwelling that mediates between suburbia and a protected pine forest on a steep Spanish slope.
Approach Design Studio Folds a Public Park into a Former Police Station in Beijing
A decommissioned police station in Daxing District becomes a hybrid office and community park wrapped in a steel exoskeleton.
Roland Baldi Architects Chars a Timber Forestry Station Black in South Tyrol's Most Wooded Municipality
A CasaClima Gold administration building in Nova Ponente draws on Alpine and Japanese fire-treatment traditions to honor its forested context.
VIASCAPE Threads a Mirrored Canopy Through One of Shanghai's Densest Neighborhoods
Leshan Pocket Park carves 5,600 square meters of shared public life into the heart of Xuhui District's residential grid.
Pocket Church: A Biophilic Architecture Approach to Spiritual and Ecological Integration
A biophilic architecture vision where forest, faith, and community coexist through nature-driven spaces that regenerate land and human connection.
Estudio Bulla Invents a Forest of 2,500 River Alders for a Museum Campus Outside Buenos Aires
At Malba Puertos in Escobar, three outdoor gallery rooms thread through a planted grove that doubles as a living ecological laboratory.
Michan Architecture and PARABASE Scatter Three Pavilions Beneath the Canopy of Chapultepec Forest
An international competition win delivers 70,000 square meters of new parkland architecture woven into Mexico City's most iconic urban forest.
Foret de Poche: A Self-Sufficient Pocket Forest for London's Neglected Public Spaces
A modular urban oxygen chamber that generates its own electricity while restoring sensory connection to nature in congested megacities.
