Woodland Classrooms Belvue School / Studio Weave

Belvue School is a secondary school for boys and girls with moderate to severe learning difficulties and a range of other additional needs. The school site sits adjacent to an under-utilized woodland which the school is managing as an educational nature reserve. In 2014 the school had already raised enough money to install two shipping containers to act as storage and support spaces for the woodland but approached Studio Weave to enquire whether it would be possible to achieve some more flexible, larger extracurricular spaces with a similar budget.

PH Superi House / Juan Manuel Galleano + Junta Arquitectas

Ph Superí is located in the City of Buenos Aires on the border of the Coghlan and Saavedra neighborhoods. It's a low-density area four blocks from Saavedra Park, between Crámer and Balbín avenues.

Design in Motion Office / Design in Motion

The new ‘Design in Motion office’ has been constructed on the land where is planned to add one more building in the future, therefore this new office building had to be built merely on half of the land for supporting that plan. Because of that, this office was set in the vertical direction as a three-story building within the boundary of 10 by 10 meters. The building is also placed adjacent to one edge of the land on one side, and on the other side is prepared to connect to the future building with a large balcony on the upper floor.

Underwood Teahouse / Studio Ku Kan Nai

Disappeared architecture. In the summer garden, the plants are in a more natural and wild state, and the original clear boundaries fade away, with plants staggering in height, creating an experience from enclosure to seclusion and then to openness. The teahouse is located at the eastern end of the garden. Walking along the stone-paved path is like a natural exploration of the garden, and the outline of the teahouse emerges from the staggered trees.

San Ignacio Community Center / Grupo Edisur

Urban Role within the Intervention Sector. Site / Situation. The building is located in a new development on the outskirts of the City of Cordoba, Argentina. This peripheral sector was, long ago, the center of industrial activities. The San Ignacio Community Center is a private proposal for a public space where the local community is responsible for the activities and the maintenance of the architecture. The building's main purpose is to activate social processes for community development. It was designed to promote social assemblies and the community´s participation in urban planning.

House Renovation in Gracia / Parramon + Tahull Arquitectes

This is a house for a family of four on the top floor of a 1900's apartment building located in the center of the Gracia district in Barcelona.

House in Nigrán / Castroferro Arquitectos

We have always felt a special interest in transitions, the events that happen between two acts. Those moments that, in these times, are usually treated as mere gaps between supposedly full. Getting home. 

Bromelia Shelter / [Plup!] Studio Costa Rica

Within one of the few small forest residues that remain on the slopes of the Barva Volcano, is Bromelia, a family project devised by one of our friends to house his family.

B33 House / Alejandro Restrepo Montoya + Estudio Central

At the top of a hill, the house integrates with a natural landscape made up of slopes, plains, water and local vegetation. The visuals are oriented toward the distant landscape, made up of mountains and the surrounding nature.

Premiá de Dalt House / ALVMTR + Alejandro Suarez

The house, located in Premiá de Dalt (a neighborhood on the outskirts of Barcelona), is the new home of a young couple, on a steeply sloping plot and with a great panoramic view of the sea. The project had to offer a common living space with access to the outside, an integrated kitchen, two bedrooms, a flexible environment for daily use or office, two bathrooms, a toilet, and a garage.

Alfondac Community Warehouse and Guest Housing for Travelers / Aixopluc

Al-fondaq is an Arabic word for a building that is both an overnight stay for travelers and traders, and a community warehouse and trade for surplus grain. It is the spatial prelude to the market. It is the direct ancestor of the word ‘fonda’. This name is a tribute to the Muslim heritage of our territory of the Camp de Tarragona. Alfondac is a guest house scattered in several places, far from each other, so that each can become a stage for your own journey. Alfondac is not a new hotel concept, it is an archaic idea. A founding act of architecture is hospitality. Welcoming other people, foreigners or friends, strangers or equals.

A Weekend House In The Meadows / SAK Designs

…where your stay is embraced, by nature’s grace!

Two Metallic Houses / Mauricio Morra

The Two Metallic Houses are located on a corner lot of 12 x 30 meters, in a neighborhood on the eastern outskirts of the city of Rafaela, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. The corner situation is used to generate income on its longest north side and prioritize both houses. The proposal avoids common spaces, which meant higher construction and maintenance costs. The land was divided exactly in half, leaving the entire built and free private surface -with its own patios-, except for the obligatory North retreat that has remained as a semi-public garden.

Paradinha 11 Cabins in the Woods / SUMMARY

Considering the roughness and the remoteness of this plot it would be difficult (and extremely expensive) to assemble construction yards for a traditional building. Thus, in this case, resorting to prefabricated structures was not just a choice, but the only efficient option we had to simplify the building process within such conditions. 

Marramarra Shack / Leopold Banchini Architects

In 1788 Captain Cook and his fleet entered the delta of the Hawkesbury and the sheltered bay of Sydney. At the entrance of the Dyirabun (Hawkesbury) River, he was first welcomed by the Darug People who had been living on these banks since the beginning of times. Not long after, the British colonized the Australian territory, building a network of roads and electrical lines across the vast country. The electrical posts were made of some of the finest local hardwoods. Later on, these posts were slowly replaced by steel posts. 

INOKI-YE House / Office for Environment Architecture

Give a change of distance to the environment with the eaves. There are some environments and relationships that make me think "it is better not to build anything". The site is located in a mixture of factories/warehouses and detached houses in the suburbs of Osaka.

Daisen Work Hut / Niimori Jamison Architects

This project is the administration building for a small construction firm from Tottori, a nearby small city. In the midst of the recent pandemic, the firm opted to relocate its office to a nearby rural area. The new location is abundant in flora and fauna, with small-scale agricultural buildings and a vista dominated by the nearby extinct volcano Mt Daisen. The firm hoped that this setting would provide an escape from the dreariness of city lockdown for themselves and their team.

Green Blood Matcha Coffee Shop / Studio Guilherme Garcia

For the design of this matcharia, we sought to escape the traditional, with minimalist references that were translated into the organic forms that constitute the concept of the project. The base of light tones was used in order to bring a greater breath to the space and serve as a blank canvas to work on the green that is the brand's signature at some points within the project.