Waterscape
Design and architecture projects that engage with water as a primary spatial, ecological, or experiential element.
TROP : terrains and open space Lace a Nine-Metre Shanghai Sunken Garden with White Mesh Stairs
At Yanlord Arcadia in Shanghai, a 590 m² sunken courtyard becomes a three-level social stair wrapped in white metal mesh that lets light and rain in.
MMBB, JPG.ARQ and Ben-Avid Flood Brazil's Expo 2020 Dubai Pavilion with a Walkable Sheet of Water
In Dubai, Brazil's Expo pavilion stretches a tensile fabric box over a shallow flooded square, inviting visitors to wade through projected rivers.
Tidal Survival: A Biomimetic Habitat That Glows, Moves, and Breathes Beneath the Ocean
Nicholas Miller's shortlisted EHC Pacific entry reimagines underwater habitation as a mobile, bioluminescent organism rather than a rigid capsule.
PATH: A Speculative Underwater Trading Hub Off the Coast of Penang
Modular pods and copper infrastructure form an expandable aquatic settlement 125 meters below the Strait of Malacca.
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.
Immersion: An Opera House Born from Ripples, Sound Waves, and Coastal Terrain
Paulina Walachowska's conceptual opera house translates wave propagation and acoustic geometry into a walkable public landscape.
Kelpscape: An Underwater Habitat That Becomes Part of the Kelp Forest
A submersible research vessel designed to be colonized by the very marine ecosystem it studies, blurring the line between architecture and organism.
OASIS: A Spherical Underwater Habitat Engineered for Life on the Pacific Shelf
A 16.6-meter geodesic sphere proposes self-sufficient living 200 meters below the Pacific, turning structure into landscape.
INI Design Studio Coils a Nautilus-Shaped Aquarium into Ahmedabad's Arid Science City
India's first planned inland public aquarium spirals outward from a 27.5-meter atrium to house 12,000 fish across five geographic zones.
TAO Scatters a Field of White Walls Across a Wuhan Wetland to Build an Art Center That Breathes
On a triangular slip of land where lake meets road, dispersed GRC walls blur the line between architecture and shoreline in Caidian District.
KCAP and DCA Architects Build a Stepped Urban Village on Singapore's King's Dock Waterfront
A 26,000 square meter residential development in Singapore trades tower isolation for terraced courtyards and a planted promenade along the harbor.
Waterfrom Design Turns Its Own Taipei Studio into a Manifesto of Material Intuition
A 218-square-meter office in Taipei pairs green marble floors with plywood joinery to argue that design starts with the hands, not the screen.
