Power Generation
Architecture and design strategies for energy generation, sustainability, and environmental integration in built projects.
Power generation in architecture extends beyond mechanical systems to encompass how buildings interact with their environment and users. This includes passive design strategies, renewable energy integration, and the structural and spatial innovations that support sustainable operations.
The community explores how architects embed environmental performance into form and materiality, from green terraces that provide thermal buffers to hillside terracing that works with topography, and how building design can generate efficiency through strategic orientation and landscaping.
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Ultra Architects Disguises a Polish Lakeside Home as a Cluster of Boathouses
On the shore of a western Polish lake, three corrugated metal pavilions form a 180 m² retreat rooted in the vernacular of waterside hangars.
Sanjay Puri Architects Wraps a Jaipur Office Tower in Capsule-Shaped Green Terraces
Near Jaipur Airport, a nine-level commercial building uses stacked planter modules and aluminium screens to fight 40°C heat.
Sanjay Puri Architects Wraps a Jaipur Office Tower in Capsule-Shaped Green Buffers
A nine-level climate-responsive workplace near Jaipur Airport uses stacked planter terraces and aluminium screens to fight 40°C heat.
L2C Arquitetura Terraces a Concrete House Down a Steep Braga Hillside
Two offset horizontal planes step across an irregular slope in Barros, turning topography into architecture rather than fighting it.
