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Transformation Design: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Transformation design addresses how spaces, systems, and objects can shift their function, form, or meaning in response to different conditions. This practice spans architecture, product design, and urban planning, exploring flexibility as a core design principle rather than an afterthought.

The community examines adaptive structures and flexible systems, from shelters that respond to environmental demands to public spaces that evolve with community use. Projects explore how design can facilitate transitions between states, bridge different urban functions, and create frameworks that accommodate change as a fundamental aspect of their operation.

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UNI8 works

Baiying Yu2 works

Murrill Oakes1 work

Abhishek Sorampuri1 work

DENG RUIJUN1 work

CHETHAN P1 work

Burak Nergizoğlu1 work

ATAKAN GUNDUZ1 work

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Cesarina and Tiffany

TERRA EMERGENCE

Ai Solutions and Environmentally Based Decisions Joining to Reinvent Societal Norms.

Burak and ATAKAN

SWITCH

This school design aims to blend individual development with collective education and to ensure that the education and school life of high school students do not only remain with common lessons in classrooms.

Zhongtian

Atom Community

A Design for Creating a Student Accommodation with Better Communication Space

Baiying and 3 others

Transformabilit ------ Flexible Sustainble Shelter

Combining the relevant research on the characteristics of the grain bins and the local context, we decided to transform the original monotonous cylindrical grain bins into an agricultural accommodation center with multiple functions. It is a SUSTAINABLE SHELTER that can be TRANSFOR, moved, pushed and pulled according to climate change, which just looks like.

CHETHAN

THE STITCH - AN INDUSTRIAL + PUBLIC HYBRID

INCREASINGLY IN CITIES TODAY, RAMPANT INTRODUCTION OF URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE [HIGHWAYS, MOTORWAYS, UNDERPASS, RAILWAY LINES]CAUSES i]DISRUPTION IN URBAN FABRIC ii]FISSURES IN EXISTING COMMUNITIES SUCH FISSURES IN THE LONG RUN BECOME UNUSED /UNDERUTILIZED /DEAD OR VOID SPACES. THIS PROJECT ATTEMPTS TO PAINT A PICTURE OF ONE SUCH FISSURE BEING STITCHED.

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Flip / Flop

A chair that responds to different moods, since it can be easily transformed by the user. Flexibility and transformation are the fundamental ideas behind this design that allows the chair adjusting to different settings. By flipping it over, the user can change between 2 different seating postures and designs.

Murrill

Trilogy Tetrahedrons

Trilogy Tetrahedrons evolve with their users, constantly educating, warping, rejuvenating, deteriorating, and supporting. Unlike other public furniture installations, Trilogy Tetrahedrons are not static. The arrangement and shape of the forms are fluid and emotive like the cities they inhabit and the human activity they house.

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Anuja Ghare

publishedDesign Process2 months ago

Fixity in Flux

Shaping the Architecture of Transition(s)

Cultural Architecture

Kinetic Architecture

Changsi Wang

publishedStory2 months ago

When Making Becomes Designing

Rethinking Craft in the Age of Digital Fabrication

Digital Fabrication

Digital Design

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Transitional Linkage: An Elevated Pedestrian Spine That Formalizes a City's Most Dangerous Shortcut

Zillur Rahman turns an informal crossing over rail and highway into a raised civic spine that ties six transport modes together at a single shared level.

Urban Mobility

Transit Oriented Development