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Micro Library by Shau Architects
What it's about
This unique library uses recycled ice cream tubes as cladding elements for natural lighting and ventilation. Angling the elements outward accomplishes rain screening, and variations in orientation allow for pixelated patterns to emerge.
Why it matters
Natural lighting and ventilation is often neglected in modern American architecture. Patrons of a building often choose to cover windows during the daytime and rely on harsher artificial lighting. How can cheap solutions similar to this one be implemented in all interior spaces devoid of daylight?
Inspirational Projects
Thematic Design in Action
What it's about
This theoretical project offers insightful floor plan schemes for compact living in crowded cities of the future. Each card rates the scheme based on factors such as percent of exterior exposure, level of space openness in the plan, etc.
Why it matters
The suburban model will not work in developing nations with exploding population densities. However, domestic architecture should not be subjected to only the square apartment high-rise solution for housing the masses of the future. How can novel solutions maximize the potential of crammed spaces in dense urban fabrics?
50 Floor Plans for Desirable Collective Housing
by A&T Research Group
What it's about
This project, located in Paris ,responds to the ongoing housing crisis for new coming refugees. adaptable transitional housing provides safe confines for travelers committed to rebuilding their lives in a foreign
city.
Why it matters
This solution has major implications for both the refugee and general homeless crises occurring in developed nations around the world. How can we utilize abandoned spaces, like the underpasses of highways, to create healthy environments capable of enabling people to recoup from economic loss?
What it's about
This project recreates the "fantastical" mythical landscapes in Denmark's literature through the integration of nature intertwined with the built environment. Engineered wood mixes with growing vines and shrubs to create a harmonious built extension into nature.
Why it matters
Sustainable design and Biophilic design can combine to create human habitats respective of the natural beauty of the world. Why can't every building be a habitat for nature?
Dubai Solar Innovation by Antoine Predock Architects
What it's about
This project responds to Climate Change in the Middle East through concealing this community in an underground cavern. This building complex uses the constant temperature of the Earth to condition its interior spaces in conjunction with evaporative cooling through various water features. Its solar chimney channels hot air upward through a stack ventilation application while its innovative technological skin harness power from Dubai's intense sunlight.
Why it matters
Responding to Climate Change will be an incredible challenge for the built environment, and its solutions will be varied
based on each building's contextual environment. The Middle East is projected to become extremely hot over the coming
years, so architecture will need to respond in dramatic ways that question our traditional; understanding of a buildings
relationship to the Earth beneath it.
Nuuk Psychiatric Hospital by White Arkitekter
What it's about
This building uses soft natural material choices with accentuated sight-lines its beautiful contextual environment to
create a place for mental healing.
Why it matters
Modern society has an incredible issue when it comes to addressing mental health more effectively. How can architecture create places where troubles individuals can find healing through proper spirit of place?
World Farm Building by Plantagon
What it's about
This building serves the duel purpose of housing office space an expansive vertical gardens capable of bringing nutrition more efficiently in dense urban environments. This example of "agritecture" shows the viability behind rethinking the way we farm in order to better sustain large urban populations in the future. Sustainable systems are critical for this structure's success as well. The power plant serving this facility has a symbiotic relationship where excess product waste from one and heat waste from another combine to create efficient close looped systems.
Why it matters
Urban agriculture centers like this might become vital for an entirely different reason than the need for convenience and better economy of logistics; Climate Change. Growing crops in regions decimated by drought or extreme rainfall might not be sufficient enough to provide for a larger global population.
Exhibition Hall by BIG
What it's about
This entry portion to BIG's new masterplan development EuropaCity in Paris consists of eight buildings designed by UNStudio, Atelier COS and Hérault Arnod Architectes. This astounding campus melds different programmatic spaces
to create a destination for "retail, culture, and leisure"
Why it matters
This collection of buildings creates an iconic destination that people from afar will journey to visit. How can architecture
create meaningful places that enhance the lives of their patrons?
Prefab House by Baragaño Architects
Why it matters
This prefabricated house built of separate modules is capable of being fully constructed in five hours. Constructing its
components offsite minimized costly construction timelines to deliver a classy spacious dwelling for an appropriate
price tag.
Illumine Paris by 1week1project
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