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Pako Street Animal Social Life Campus / Mert Uslu Architecture

Andreas Luco — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000

The practices conducted in Turkey in regard to stray animals are focused primarily on providing much-needed care to abandoned, injured, ill, disabled, or destitute animals with the intention of releasing these animals back to their natural surroundings at the end of their treatment. With the spatial arrangement of the open and closed spaces focusing on the interaction between humans and dogs while at the same time reinforcing the theme of adoption, the facility sits on a 110.000 m2 site located in the Gökdere district of the town of Bornova in Izmir. Being the first of its kind, this facility was not only designed as a temporary care center but also a center for rehabilitation that is predicated on the interaction between humans and dogs, providing a space that promotes the idea of reciprocal rehabilitation and can be seen as an alternative space for families to spend quality time and reinforces human-dog interaction.

Pet Forest Gimpo / Archirie

Hana Abdel — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Background - This project was planned as a funeral home for pets, and it was carried out in the form of remodeling existing buildings, not new construction. The building located on the outskirts of Gimpo-si, which is a mixture of rice fields, factories, and nature, is the first pet funeral hall in Korea and has been operating since 1999 and was established to promote the right pet funeral culture in the absence of a legal system for pet funeral. Residents' complaints against attraction due to negative perceptions of cremation facilities and local governments' passive attitude toward building activities would have led to the judgment that it is more reasonable than new construction to acquire and remodel existing buildings that used to operate as funeral homes.

Haras VM Dressage Stables / Per Cavalli Arquitetura

Valeria Silva — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Designed for a young couple of dressage professionals, VM Dressage Stables needed to meet not only the horses and personal demands of the owners but also their clients. With a lot of daily movement, one of the main requirements was that the place was practical and safe, both for the animals and for the riders and grooms.

Haras HCN / Per Cavalli Arquitetura

Valeria Silva — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:00:00 +0000

During the pandemic, the desire to bring their horses from the city to the countryside motivated these clients to reach out to our office to design a suitable space to receive them, for both show jumping and dressage riders, the family needed a place that would allow not only training but also housing their animals active in the sport as well as retired animals and foals of their own breeding.

Niwatorigoya Chicken Coop / 2M26

Hana Abdel — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A chicken coop inspired by Japanese shrines. Design and built by Kyoto based architecture studio 2m26, Niwatorigoya is a chicken coop located in Keihoku, north mountain side of Kyoto city. Next to a thatched roof dwelling, Niwatorigoya reinterprets the Ise shrine structure.

Umagoya Stable / 2M26

Hana Abdel — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A stable entirely made of cypress and cedar using Japanese traditional joinery. Design and built by Kyoto-based architecture studio 2m26, Umagoya comprises a stable for two horses and storage space - a saddle room located in Keihoku, north mountain side of Kyoto city. The new construction integrates the property of an old Japanese folk dwelling. Around the main thatched roof house, a few outbuildings and a garden surrounded by soil walls enclose the site. Umagaoya takes part in this ensemble on both sides of a “KURA”, a traditional storage space made of thick soil walls.

Pet Resource Center / RA-DA

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000

As the first building of its kind, the Pet Resource Center is a revolution in the animal care industry. With kennels and cages intentionally omitted, its function is similar in many ways to an animal shelter, but its fundamental philosophy is the polar opposite.

Paw Pets Spa / Office AIO

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Office AIO takes a stand on humane spaces for pets. With pet ownership on the rise, how can we holistically address animal welfare? When Office AIO was approached by the pet shop Paw, the team rethought how a commercial shop can use spatial design to speak about care for our little companions. Situated in a regeneration development of a residential area in Beijing, Paw adopts a corner of an existing single-story building facing the street. Office AIO transforms a previous management office into a retail shop that sells, grooms, and accommodates pets, from a quick check to a temporary "hotel" stay.

Blacktown Animal Rehoming Center / Sam Crawford Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

A new animal shelter attracts potential pet adopters | Bold color and a handful of six finger-like buildings connect to nature to create a safe and welcoming animal shelter that promotes pet adoption. Blacktown Animal Rehoming Centre (BARC), located adjacent to the Western Sydney Parklands, was designed by Sam Crawford Architects (SCA), and is the largest building of its type in the Southern Hemisphere, housing up to 380 dogs and cats.

Educan School for Dogs, Humans and Other Species / Eeestudio + Lys Villalba

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 03:00:00 +0000

01. Multi-species architecture. Eva, Carlos, two Belgian Malinois – Bicho and Bomba –, Harris the owl, five swift families, six kestrel families, and twenty sparrows, are all companion species. They live and learn together in this building, thirty kilometers west of Madrid. Sitting in amongst fields, in a rural environment transformed over recent decades by urban development and intensive pesticide-reliant agriculture, Educan School is trialing ways to recover the conditions of the ecosystem.

Staten Island Animal Care Center / Garrison Architects

Andreas Luco — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:00:00 +0000

The Staten Island Animal Care Center creates a humane and controlled environment for animals awaiting adoption. The heart of the design is a reversal of the typical arrangement of animal care facilities: animals are housed around the perimeter of the building while offices and service functions are placed in the interior. Since the staff spends most of its time with the animals, this arrangement benefits both.

Haven The Eternal Experience Pavilion / Earthscape Studio

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 17:00:00 +0000

With a scenic view, the bowl-shaped contour site is located at Peermade, Kerala, India. The level difference of the site is about 1m to 4 m which continues down to a deep valley. The natural landscape adds beauty to the site which has lots of banana trees and a few other kinds around. The climate of the site is mostly misty and it rains 9 months a year continuously. Also, a small drain runs through the site which helps in directing the natural flow of rainwater down.

Michigan Animal Rescue League / PLY+

Valeria Silva — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

The building design for the Michigan Animal Rescue League (MARL) embodies a core goal of achieving a “different breed of shelter” to elevate the wellness of the animals in their care. MARL initiated the project with a detailed program analysis that identified a need for the organization to grow beyond its 5,000 sqf make-shift facility into a 15,000 sqf world-class facility.

Palanga Goat Shelter / Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 03:00:00 +0000

Palanga Art and Architecture Farm (PAAF) is located in the northeastern part of Turkey and the Goat Shelter is part of the sprawling property of the farm. It has been designed in line with goat physiology, geographical features, local climate, and seismic demands of the land. The project entails a structure with high earthquake resistance designed by using two semicircular rammed-earth walls of different diameters on a deep stone foundation. The project design was initiated with approaches such as seeking sustainable solutions, adapting to current conditions, using natural materials and traditional stone-earth-timber craftsmanship as a construction technique, communicating with the craftsmen in the region and producing collective knowledge, coordinating with academic parties, putting materials to the test and questioning technical decisions. The structure is a successful experimental example of zero-impact construction. It has the feature of completely dissolving back into nature without leaving any trace or impact.

Kennels / Atelier GOM

Collin Chen — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Project concept. The architect and client had been thinking about people and dogs ever since the triangular-shaped "corner" site at the southern-most of Aranya was defined as a pet hotel. Usually, the design model of a small hotel is either a low-rise veranda, or scattered detached building, or the very popular "one big pallet with a bunch of small boxes" complex. From human standpoint, these models are all feasible. But as anyone who has ever owned a dog knows, dogs are happy when they meet other dogs from time to time, but people are not happy because of the panic. Therefore, dog-to-dog encounters should be avoided as much as possible at non-essential times. So, at the beginning of the program, the porch layout was avoided, and there was some torn between freestanding and townhouse style.

Animal Shelter and Pet Crematorium Lommel / Collectief Noord

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 03:00:00 +0000

We are constructing two animal-related buildings on the boundary between the industrial site Maatheide and the nature reserve the Lommelse Sahara: an animal shelter and a pet crematorium. The buildings lack an attractive public reputation, hence their relocation to the industrial site, which in turn, is not accustomed to house public buildings. As an architecture assignment, the programmes too are fairly unfamiliar and thus require research into new, meaningful typologies.

Næra Hotel, Chicken Coop / Leeko Studio

Collin Chen — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Background
With the ever-increasing popularity of mobile grocery shopping apps and the gradual decline of the food market, fewer and fewer children brought up in the metropolis can identify different kinds of grains, let alone knowing how chickens and ducks, etc. came from rural area to the food market in downtown and then served on our tables.

Aviary and Stable Park El Encanto / DRAA

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Following an invitation from the landscaping office DEL RIO SUR we were asked to propose a masterplan and installations for an animal Park in the north side of the Rupanco Lake, a pristine rural location with views to various geographical landmarks.

Equine Pavilion in Aulesti / ELE Arkitektura

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Starting from a simple volume and a conventional structural system, it has been sought to emphasize the tectonics of each material, modulating each encounter and facilitating commissioning.

Vietnam BEAR Sanctuary / COLE

Andreas Luco — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 23:00:00 +0000

In a collaboration with Cát Tiên National Park, Free the Bears and Building Trust international, COLE have completed the design of a series of buildings serving to house bears rescued from the illegal wildlife trade and bear bile industry. The result is a modular, light filled, gabion structure aiming to fuse nature and functionality. COLE have delivered a number of innovative projects for Wildlife organisations worldwide.

Cat Café TRYST / Parallect Dedign

Collin Chen — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 21:00:00 +0000

This cat café locates in the famous Tianzifang commercial area in Shanghai, it’s only has a narrow door connects with the street, main using space are located on the second and third floor. It’s not a typical commercial space design, it’s a renovation project of the old housing. Cats are the main users of the whole space every day. To provide a comfortable and playable space for cats and provide a chilling space for customers are the design target.

Jiyan Healing Garden / ZRS Architekten Ingenieure

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights has opened a new centre for animal-assisted trauma therapy in Chamchamal, Kurdistan-Iraq. The centre is the first step in the realisation of the Jiyan Healing Garden on a 35,000 m2 site in Chamchamal. The various ethnic minorities and Kurdish majority of the Kurdistan autonomous region have been victims of oppression and violence for centuries, suffering most recently at the hands of ISIS and before that regime of Sadam Hussein. Over the last few years many minorities such as the Yazidis have fled to the region before the violence being perpetrated by ISIS throughout northern Iraq. The importance of a functioning mechanism for trauma therapy has become of huge importance for the region as research indicates that without therapeutic treatment, it can take up to three generations for victims to recover from a traumatic experience.

Cricket Shelter - Modular Insect Farm / Terreform ONE

Daniela Cardenas — Tue, 03 May 2016 17:00:00 +0000

The continuous impact of climate dynamics, armed conflicts, non stop urbanization and economic upheavals present a distinct need for a hybrid architectural topology to deliver parallel solutions for food and shelter in each distressed region. This is a dual-purpose shelter and modular insect farm bounded into one structure. It’s intended for the impending food crisis, where people will need access to good sources of alternative protein, as raising livestock is not possible at our current rate of consumption and resource extraction. The United Nations has mandated insect sourced protein is a major component to solving global food distribution problems. This impacts the diets of all peoples across the globe.

Petaholic Hotel / sms design

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

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