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Steel Frames: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Steel frames provide architects and designers with structural flexibility and visual clarity. This topic explores how exposed and concealed steel structures enable innovative spatial configurations, from residential homes to public buildings.

The community examines steel framing across diverse contexts: cantilevered houses suspended over landscapes, glass pavilions and high-rises with steel skeletons, adaptive reuse of industrial structures, and furniture design that celebrates frame construction. Projects range from sustainable family homes to institutional buildings that leverage steel's strength for dramatic architectural gestures.

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UNI Editorial4 works

UNI Editorial3 works

Qianqin Zhou2 works

Marija Hristovska2 works

JEGANATH BALAKRISHNAN1 work

Subhajit Ghosh1 work

Asaad Ur Rahaman1 work

Subhodeep Chowdhury1 work

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Subhajit and 3 others

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Extended Shell

Our aim is to connect people with the inside and the outside of world with the modularity balcony using the conservation of heritage and to fuse the basic requirement, modular future and legacy of veranda.

Marija

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The Frame bench

The Frame Bench is an urban furniture object that gives a connection between the old, traditional, and the new and contemporary. It is designed to beautify and utilize the space by providing a place to sit, rest and enjoy the beautiful lake view. It is a shelter from the sun during the day and a light object at night.

Sasha

Proximity Island.

Proximity Island is the full-fledged cultural environment on a platform that is initially divorced both physically and semantically from the world of art and ordinary human life. It is the symbol of the sea, a symbol of the unity of architecture and nature.

Anna and 2 others

HIRAYÁ Reimagining Student Living

HIRAYÁ serves as a home away from home, providing proper housing that addresses personal, social and academic needs of students. It aims to create a community that supports better living and learning through deliberate allocation and zoning of spaces.

Sayori and 2 others

Museum for Computational Technology

The brief is to design an immersive and experiential space that curates artifacts linked to computers and computational technologies.

Esma Nur and 3 others

INN

The building, which was designed to create a landmark in the middle of the vast desert and attracts the attention of people even from afar, consists of accommodation units and social areas. The name of the project is inn because it evokes the inn culture in the past. It is aimed to preserve the vitality by keeping the tradition alive.

Qianqin and 2 others

Site Frames

This prefabricated bus stop revealing the site spirit through customized materials, consists of a transparent frame system and an alternative fabric unit. It can offer spaces with different intimacy by rotating the vertical parts. As a special installation, this mobile bus stop also presents a certain meaning in praxiology and urban landscape ecology.

Hari

ShapeX

A Computational Parametric Design Pavilion

Caroline

Clip-on houses

Minimal housing for application to bridges aiming to take advantage of old insutrial elements. By building around the bridge the possibility of passage under the bridge is kept, whilst a new public environment on the bridge is created.

Jahanvi

REINCARNATION OF RUINS

Through an architectural intervention, the project aims to understand and appreciate the history and qualities of the ruined mill and integrate these qualities into the atmosphere of the new space, binding the old and the new together and at the same time, retaining the character of the ruin.

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog3 months ago

Alto Arquitectura Suspends a Steel-Framed Glass Pavilion Over the Colombian Highlands

A 3,600-square-meter prefabricated residence near Guasca channels panoramic Andean views through cantilevered volumes and exposed diagonal bracing.

Steel Structure

Power Station

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

Rushi Shah Architects and Tattva Landscapes Float a Cantilevered Home Over a Lotus Pond in Ahmedabad

A family of builders crafts a low-slung, climate-responsive pavilion on the rural outskirts of Gujarat's largest city.

Futuristic Floating Residents

Framed Structure

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

HCCH Studio Wraps a Shanghai High-Rise Office in Curved Walls of Translucent Glass

A 1,000 square meter fit-out in Lujiazui replaces the typical tech-office palette with layered glass, micro-cement, and quiet rigor.

Wooden Frames

Lighting

UNI Editorial

publishedStory1 year ago

Frame House by Ming Architects – Contemporary Family Home in Singapore

Frame House by Ming Architects is a contemporary Singapore home, blending framed park views, tropical courtyard living, natural ventilation, and privacy.

Framed Structure

Architecture