Launched by the Germans Anna Heringer and Andres Lepik, the Laufen Manifesto promotes a general paradigm shift regarding the role of architecture in our society, asserting the power of design as a tool that can significantly improve the living condit

Anna Heringer   China   The project wishes to reflect the cultural identity of the place; hence, the traditional ceramic of the region inspires the rounded forms of the building, imitating the typical vessels and building materials used. The walls are built with rammed eart

Anna Heringer   Zimbabwe   This project that has the ability to turn to compost, leaving no remains, is formed by a multifunctional room, a surrounding bench and a timber structure that has enough depth to form niches, an alcove and colorful windows with solid frames...

Anna Heringer   Morocco   Drawing inspiration from the ksar and the madrasa – Maghrebi fortified cities and schools –, and combining local knowledge with modern technology, the project reinvents earth as building material able to fulfill current comfort needs and safety requi

Anna Heringer   Bangladesh   This house for three peasant families follows the pattern of traditional homestead in Bangladesh, keeping the kitchen and the sanitary units in external buildings, and leaving remaining land for gardening as a means to overcome the food crisis. Sensi

Indalecio Batlles   Spain   The project proposes activating the industrial heritage of the gold mines of Rodalquilar with a unitary action that serves as a link between the existing elements: a path, a walkway or a shadow that relates the processing plants with one another.  In

Irene Brea Martínez   Netherlands   Facing the artificial Ijssel lake and on reclaimed land, the four front pieces make up the dwellings, while the rear piece, which wraps around them, conforms the social center in a private-public gradient, from water to earth.  The same building, whi

Álvaro Carrillo Eguilaz   Spain   During a first phase and based on civic participation and the interaction with users, the project seeks to make urban processes transparent and to relocate decision-making to their natural environments. The project proposes a renovation based on nego

Ángela Juarranz   Greece   Located on an uninhabited island to the south of Athens, the project begins with the superposition of atmospheric, light, climate, geographic, topographic and programmatic variables, based on a theoretical and historic knowledge of the program.  The

Esmeralda López García   Spain   Based on the exchange of activities, knowledge and abilities, using time as currency, the program develops the whole process around an urban garden – going from harvest to commercialization –, and encourages social relations among participants. The g

Lucía Usera del Valle   Spain   Detecting 30% of the inhabitable spaces that were not being used (courtyards, roofs, terraces), and establishing a spatial relationship between them is the starting point to propose evacuation routes and the interior program. A continuous technologic

Andrés Velasco Muro   United Arab Emirates   Developed on multiple scales, the project proposes a network of mobile artifacts that follow the principles of bioarchitecture. The O.V.I. is a double tensegrity sphere that, as a balloon, changes its shape and flight height releasing hot air. The D.

Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter (HZA)   Norway   Inspired in natural caves, the project creates a space of 50m3 in a piece of 1,5 tons of waste hollowed via subtractive manufacturing technology; the cave is exposed to sunrays and to rain, it can be climbed and has a number of hiding places. The mat

Helen & Hard   Norway   The project draws on three different local resources: the geological and seismic expertise of the oil industry; the technology, materials and waste related to oil production, and, lastly, the ideas and collaboration with young local groups.

Superuse Studios   Netherlands   The windmill blades, with soft curves due to their aerodynamic shape, are transformed into a playground, and by integrating the trees on the plot it is possible to build a labyrinth with four towers, a net, and a panna-cage...

Kendall/Heaton Associates, Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   In 1966, Louis Kahn was commissioned to design a museum for the art collection donated by entrepreneur Kay Kimbell to the city of Fort Worth. Inaugurated by the master himself in 1972, the Kimbell consists of a group of reinforced concrete layers con

‘Slow Talk’, the first individual exhibition in Spain devoted to Bohnchang Koo, includes 28 images from the artist’s most representative series, using white as predominant color, and always centered on one theme: the relentless passage of time. Koo w