Sacralized Architecture
Architecture designed with spiritual, cultural, or healing purposes that integrate sacred principles into built form.
Dom Arquitectura Sets a Stone-Pier House at the Top of a Costa Brava Slope to Give the Garden to the Pool
In Montràs on the Costa Brava, a 735 m² single-level home uses rubble stone piers, oak and deep porches to make outdoor living the daily default.
S-AR Stacks Three Apartments Inside an Open Concrete Grid Under a Palapa in Puerto Escondido
In Puerto Escondido, S-AR builds a 12 by 15 metre concrete frame where terraces replace rooms and a thatched palapa crowns three open apartments.
Spirit Ladder
As vernacular architecture is shaped by climatic conditions, the resulting forms often assume a mythical role. Exploring structures from houses to simple altars, the concept of a spirit ladder has been derived. Can the rules established for the movement of supernatural beings also be applied in a modern facility, and what role can they play?
Studio Saxe Tucks a Guanacaste House into a Ravine Slope and Lets the Landscape Reveal It in Fragments
In Cabo Velas, Costa Rica, Casa Akíga pairs a stone base with a floating timber roof, staging the house as a slow descent toward the ravine and sea.
CAZA Gathers Circular Rooms into One Porous Church on a Wooded University Campus in Biñan
In Biñan, Philippines, Santuario de La Salle clusters circular chapels behind a ribbed colonnade and fin skin, easing campus bustle into worship.
Sunyata: A Meditation Center That Builds Its Calm Around a Circular Void
A shortlisted Pause entry that carves a circular courtyard from a simple site-derived mass, turning Buddhist emptiness into a space you can walk through.
studio apaaar Builds a Raw Concrete Museum of Humanity Around a Split Tower in Tulapur, India
In Tulapur near Pune, a 181 m² concrete pavilion borrows from cremation-ground ritual to stage light, water and introspection.
Cerron Arquitectos Lines the CASACOR Peru 2026 Entrance with Bamboo Canopies Shaped Like Flower Petals
In Santiago de Surco, a 120 m² sequence of lashed bamboo canopies turns the Jockey Club access road into a shaded threshold between city and exhibition.
The Sanctum: An Earthen Urban Village for Widows and Their Families in Qandahar
A low-rise citadel of compressed mud blocks, courtyards and wind towers that turns climate response into security, learning and self-reliance.
LAOS Wraps a Barcelona Social Center Extension in Climbing Vines and Stacks It Around a Skylit Brick Atrium
In Barcelona's Sants district, a 1,000 m² neighbourhood hub gathers offices and meeting rooms around a planted atrium and faces a schoolyard in green.
Balzar Arquitectos Wraps an 1890 Valencia Apartment's Plaster Salons in Curved Oak and Travertine
In València's Ciutat Vella, a 200 m² flat keeps its cherubs, cornices and mosaic floors while dark oak volumes carve out new private rooms.
Earth Side: Between the Ground and the Returning Body
Loss is not life’s interruption but its condition. This research reimagines the hospice in Montagu, Western Cape, as a threshold rather than a terminus, mediating private, communal and inherited grief. In a South Africa where apartheid’s death geographies still shape who dies with dignity, access to care remains uneven. Moving beyond clinical models, the project foregrounds emotional, spiritual and ancestral dimensions of dying, positioning architecture as an act of care, repair and passage.
SPHERE
The sphere is like the sacred and divine form of space. It is the final stage in the transformation of energy that follows a divine purpose. The sphere is the most efficient form to store and spread the energy. All planets and stars follow the same, as if they have a shared code of consciousness. This transformation is a manifestation of a common destiny.
FLOW
"Flow" is a holistic wellness center that spatializes well-being through layered volumes and intersecting planes. Rejecting traditional closed rooms, it eliminates forced routes in favor of fluid, non-linear circulation. Strategic galleries dissolve boundaries, allowing users to experience the space freely at their own rhythm while staying connected.
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The sensitive city
Grounded in architectural phenomenology, this article investigates the sensory foundations of urban experience, showing how the body, place, and memory shape the identity of the city beyond contemporary planning paradigms.
MA Estudio Sculpts a Ferrocement Womb in the Jungles of Yelapa for Tarasana Healing Center
A toroidal birthing and healing sanctuary in western Mexico draws on sacred geometry, bionics, and the plasticity of ferrocement.
From Myth to Matter
This project seeks to evolve Panatirtha into a multi-functional social and spiritual complex that integrates the sacred identity with the existing natural and tourism pathways of the Tahirpur region. The aim was to design a fully operational, year-round facility to host spiritual and secular festivals, educational tourism, and cultural gatherings.
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