Sustainable Living
Design and architecture projects addressing environmental responsibility, food systems, and ecological restoration.
Sustainable living encompasses design approaches that reduce environmental impact while improving quality of life. This includes strategies for food production, resource conservation, adaptive reuse of existing structures, and integration with natural systems.
The community explores sustainable architecture through urban farming interventions, adaptive reuse of industrial infrastructure, bioclimatic design principles, and projects supporting agricultural communities and food security.
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View all 104 journalsFuture Market: A Vertical Urban Farm That Stacks Taipei's Xinfu Market into a Civic Tower
EnLai Tong's CityScraper 2020 Editor's Choice entry threads terraces, ramps and gardens through a tower so the food cycle becomes public space.
Old Creatures: A Decommissioned Oil Rig Recast as a Marine Community of Research and Living
Recycled containers, industrial barrels and a sail-like kinetic façade turn an abandoned oil rig into housing, labs and a public landmark at sea.
Rigcycling: Turning an Abandoned Offshore Oil Rig into a Self-Sufficient Island
Oskar Pstrongowski and Jakub Pietrzykowski reframe an extraction machine as a stepped, energy-producing island of terraces, greenhouses and homes.
React Architects Breaks a Paros Hilltop House into Stone and White Volumes Beside a Mycenaean Signal Tower
On the hill of Ysterni in Paros, a 274 m² residence of dry stone walls and white pavilions gathers around a courtyard and an ancient line of sight.