Sustainable Design
Design approaches that balance environmental responsibility with human needs across architecture and spatial planning.
Tinker Project: Sustainable Architecture Reimagining Cairo’s Informal Skyline
Tinker Project reimagines Cairo’s informal skyline through sustainable architecture, transforming brick, recycled wood and steel into urban optimism.
NEW WAVE: Sustainable Architecture Reimagining Barcelona’s Eixample Hyperblock
NEW WAVE reimagines Barcelona’s Eixample through sustainable architecture, green hyperblocks, pedestrian routes, and adaptable urban living.
Resource City: A 120-Meter Tower That Makes Cairo's Waste Visible
In Manshiyat Naser, a vertical recycling complex turns garbage collection into public architecture, education, and commerce.
Anahata: A Modular Pilgrimage Village That Breathes with the Crowd
Triangular modules scale up and down across a mountain valley, replacing permanent infrastructure with adaptable pilgrimage architecture.
Continental Shelf Recycling Habitat: Architecture Grown from Ocean Waste
A speculative underwater settlement transforms a submerged sinkhole and accumulated marine debris into the foundation for modular, expandable habitation.
Redefining the Pacific: A Stingray-Inspired Underwater Colony That Grows Like a Living Organism
Modular marine pods elevated above the seabed connect into expandable underwater settlements inspired by stingray biology and behavior.
Modular Balconies: A Kit-of-Parts System That Lets Residents Design Their Own Outdoor Spaces
A 50 x 50 cm modular grid transforms identical balcony footprints into gardens, gyms, reading nooks, and social spaces shaped by daily life.
Music Connects Everything: A Fractured Stone Opera House on Tallinn's Baltic Waterfront
Tomasz Abram's shortlisted opera house splits a monumental mass apart to reveal a crystalline glass seam that symbolizes music's connective power.
PÄRT OPERA: A Monumental Stone Platform That Turns an Opera House into Public Infrastructure
Raised above the waterfront on stepped terraces and rhythmic colonnades, this opera house invites the city in before the curtain rises.
Väike Linn: An Opera House That Grows from the Waterfront
Kristin Urbatzka's radial opera complex dissolves the boundary between cultural building and coastal landscape through curved volumes and public terrain.
The Soaring Bird: An Opera House Shaped by the Flight of Estonia's Barn Swallow
Four angular wings extend from a central auditorium on Tallinn's waterfront, translating avian movement into architectural geometry.
BAMBOO BLOCK: Sustainable Architecture for a Creative Refugee Children’s Playground
BAMBOO BLOCK uses sustainable architecture, modular play spaces and local materials to create a flexible refuge for children to learn and play.
