Sacred Space
Architectural and design approaches to creating spaces for spiritual practice, contemplation, and connection.
arches Weaves a Nature Therapy Retreat into a Lithuanian Forest Clearing
Near Vilnius, Sanctum Retreat uses CLT construction and neuroaesthetic principles to root hospitality architecture in the rhythms of the forest.
the architectural memoir of memory
Memory is not static; it evolves, fades, transforms, and survives through people, rituals, and places. Within the Parsi community, the Tower of Silence at Doongerwadi has long existed as a sacred landscape carrying generations of funerary traditions, collective remembrance, and cultural identity. However, changing urban conditions, declining engagement with ritual spaces, and the gradual disconnect between community and sacred landscapes have led to the fading of these memories and spatial pract
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.
Parting in matter,Reunion in spirit
We believe that death is a parting in the material world, while a memorial ceremony is a reunion in the spiritual world. People recall their lives with the dead, talk about their present lives, and create a reunion with the dead. People humbly put the ashes into a clear spring, where the current leads people through separation and flows into a waterfall into
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.
Chapel in Addis Ababa: Sustainable Architecture Rooted in Stone, Faith, and Landscape
A rock-hewn chapel in Addis Ababa turns stone, rainwater, and landscape into a quiet sanctuary for sustainable architecture and local faith.
EUNOIA
‘Slowing down, experiencing, and thinking’ are the parts of the methodology that is accepted and embraced while recreating the faded-green Nuestro Park, located in the hot-arid climate of Phoenix, Arizona.
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?
ISOLATION MOMENTUM
Faith isn't always something fundamental for people, that’s why the project not only seeks to provide a space where users connect with their God but also to provide a special place where they can meditate and find themselves. That’s why we created different realities within the park where everyone can escape in their own way.
The confrontation between the poetic life model of small bridge/cottage/stream in Chinese settlements and the condition of order in ‘siege’ represented by the city wall ruins, which conveys cultural characteristics of Chinese traditional longing for nature, pursuing poetic life and social belief of discipline and control.
Beautiful concept and idea. The materiality is well conceived and accurated. Although I question the salubrity of the modules. In a day to day use, these kind of structures can be problematic, if not surveilled.
I liked! A very good idea design two meditation spaces, sometimes you need to meditate alone. Good luck!
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.
Bio // DOME // Stic — A Sustainable Architecture Approach to Sacred Landscape Integration
A sustainable architecture proposal that merges ecology, faith, and community through biodiverse landscapes and dome-based sacred spatial design.
Spiritual Journey to Oneness
The building is a sacred place for people of all faiths, religion or background to connect with the Divine and their higher self (the real self, awakened aspects of oneself, assessing deeper truths and knowledge). It is designed beyond experience with a series of spaces that allows visitors to experience the process of spirituality.
Light and Water: A Sensory Experience
Connecting faith and lack of religious affiliation to a sensory experience that evokes feeling of tranquility and peacefulness thr
The project has a beautiful aproach to the site and complete respect for the chinese traditional architecture without mimicking it. The different scales of the spaces and their sequence is very intelligent and accurated. The whole project is coherent in almost all aspects (site interpretation, program, scale and materialization). Very beautiful and poetic spaces. We can feel relaxation even in the communitary and more public spaces.
A Center for Faith Agnostics
The Center for Faith Agnostics is a place of universal welcome. At its simplest, it is a pavilion in a public park. However, for those seeking answers to deeper questions, the Center offers an opportunity to engage with the intersection between physical and spiritual in a series of chapels dedicated to air, fire, water and earth.
There is an ancient approach to the theme of the competition very well translated in the project. The diversity of the spaces is interesting, as it is the design of the park. Although, there is to much happening without a clear purpose. The materiality of the building is quite poor and messy.
This is a great project; such a tremendous idea; just probably the center area can be more specific in terms of the design, but good project in general.