This is a story that began in the Swiss mountains as an echo of the writings of the Swiss novelist Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. This plot gave birth to Antoine, a peculiar architectural creature that welcomes many nomadic inhabitants and nature enthusiasts si

Threshold and Treasure questions the role of threshold and treasure in the field of art, architecture and, specifically, galleries as places of display. It is precisely in the space of the threshold that the meaning of the project unfolds: thus, the entra

Big Branzino is a floating sauna designed by Thomas Sandell and Johan Strandlund at Swedish architecture firm sandellsandberg architects. It can travel at a speed of five knots and is bespoke built to enjoy saunas and entertain guests in the beautiful nat

Through the unfolding of different events, the hut invites to a spiritual experience. It looks like a shadow, and it blends into the one of the dominant oaks and beeches. As you get closer, the details become clearer. In harmony with the slenderness of th

MAZOT = The attic or «Mazot» in Savoyard dialect is a cottage in reduction, separated from the main one, covered with slate or shingles. The roof that levitates above the grass is razing. When I arrived towards the path of the woods I decided to step ov

The natural elements contrast with the town and create a special atmosphere, offering a peaceful environment, lulled by birdsong and the sound of the river. Looking up, you glimpse the tops of the trees which bring the sky to life. These three strong elem

Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of drawings, (inks, crayons and acrylics) of greenhouses based on various modes of representation...

O’DonnellBrown has designed and built a prototype for an outdoor Community Classroom: an adaptable, demountable learning environment for schools and community groups, which employs a functional, rhythmic geometry and design. The entirely self-initiated pr

the design by johansen skovsted includes landscaping and the creation of a new structure to provide a leisure and community space for residents.

In the outskirts of Santiago, Chile’s capital, Max Núñez Arquitectos have united plant cultivation and architectural sophistication in a minimalist floating cuboid pavilion. With its...

Moon Ra is a vernacular structure built to dance around the fire. The large circular roof embraces the festival goers and offers a temporary shelter for unexpected and wild behavior. Around the fire pit, the absence of a dance floor leaves the bare feet o

Conceived as a pavilion for community dialogue on nature, food and farming, the Green Agora allows native plants to grow on its modular aluminium structure and steel meshes. Located at Ground Up Initiative’s Kampong Kampus since the 2020 Singapore Archife

The shed serving the orchard, with the exception of the two-pitch corrugated metal roof supported by metal trusses, is an all-wood structure resting on seven reinforced concrete beams placed transversally. Its main function is to support two water tanks f

There are many reasons why we can find plant species inside an architectural space and in almost every one of them is evident the desire of architecture to differentiate itself from the plant and reduce it, at best, to ornamentation contained in an autono

New artwork for inclusion of New Dutch Waterline on Unesco World Heritage list Waterline Monument, the latest artwork by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh, was recently installed on the slope between the A12 motorway and the green recreation area Laagravense Plassen i

Festival Internacional de Arquitectura CONCÉNTRICO The project is located in the passage of the old Tobacco Factory of La Rioja, an urban space of narrow and elongated dimensions, filled by a monumental red brick chimney. The project restores the site to

This cabin is an experimental and craft made project. Built as a temporary object, the design aims to be unbuild and recycle again. Therefore each material was already re-used, harvest in the local area and is attached in a dry and harmless way. The cabin

The Marmarole are a wild and inaccessible mountain range, the saddle where the project is located is a boundless space at 2667 meters above sea level, a context made of rock, light, wind, snow and distances. High- altitude architecture takes on an extreme

Part of Casa Wabi's foundation mission, is to encourage, generate knowledge and new skills in the children in the region. Casa Wabi's staff identified that teaching the technique and the process for handling clay would be a very positive tool for the comm

Baracco + Wright Architects in collaboration with Linda Tegg

This is a space installation of outdoor public art group exhibition, which is exhibited in

This small construction was made in the children's unity of the Lourenço Castanho School with a premise to be a pedagogical room that belonged to the yard and not to the school's main body. Art is made among the plants, on the sand, on the ground, and wi

Can Sau was a residential property located within the old city centre of Olot, where nowadays it is not unusual to see vacant sites. Given that half of the building was affected by a future street alignment, it was demolished leaving an urban void charact

8-23-VI is a monochromatic pavilion designed for the residents of entrance VI, Block 23, in the 8th district of Gldani - a vast Soviet-built housing district in Tbilisi, Georgia. Commissioned as part of a collaboration with the Tbilisi Architecture Bienni

Built by Kawahara Krause Architects in Leonberg, Germany The starting points for this project were two completely independent circumstances. One was a heap of firewood in the...

Completed in 2017 in København, Denmark. Images by Hampus Berndtson, Victor Johansson. The project is the winning proposal by Krupinski/Krupinska Arkitekter in the open international competition for a new pavilion in the King´s Garden...

fran silvestre arquitectos has designed an urban canopy that references low-weight pergolas and porticated structures traditionally used in mediterranean cultures.