BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Sweden   Suspended between trees in the Swedish locality of Harads, about 50 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, this lodge called Biosphere which is part of the Treehouse hotel is wrapped in 350 wooden birdhouses. Designed by the Danish firm Bjarke Ingels

La Shed Architecture   Canada   Critical of intensive practices, a family long engaged in raising livestock makes organic cheese in an environment that improves the quality of life of the animals and blends into the landscape. Deviating from the picture of an opaque industrial

Del Río Arquitectos Asociados (DRAA)   Chile   Nicolás del Río and Felipe Camus designed this animal park on the north bank of Lake Rupanco, in Chile’s Osorno Province. The project involved arranging the routes, organizing the pens, and raising a series of facilities in a common language: prefabr

Matías Zegers Architects   Chile   The jumping horses trained in an equestrian center located at the foot of the Andes Mountains are housed in a shed under a pitched roof ripped at the top to bring in natural light...

Stephen Taylor Architects   United Kingdom   A new porticoed shed with room for fifty cows is the most visible feature of the extensive revamp of a historical farm, a project intended to curb a widespread exodus from the countryside. Drawing inspiration from the barchesse, the agricultural wing

EEESTUDIO Lys Villalba   Spain   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, 30 kilometers west of Madrid. Sitting in

Kengo Kuma   Mexico   An uninterrupted avian premise supplies fresh eggs to residents of Casa Wabi, a foundation that seeks to create a small community of artists on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Grids made of charred wooden boards form a permeable openwork that protects the fe

Visioarq Arquitectos   Portugal   São Cosme do Vale, a parish within the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, in northwestern Portugal's Braga District, is the location of an equestrian center by Visioarq Arquitectos (Nuno Poiarez, Pedro Afonso, Vicente Gouveia). The idea was to i

Bangkok Project Studio   Thailand   On the initiative of the  local government, several constructions complete a forest reserve for the Kuy,  an ethnic group that has lived with and tended to elephants for centuries.

petrjanda/brainwork   United Arab Emirates   The firm of the Czech architect Petr Janda has won the competition to build a visitor center in the Al Wathba Wetland Reserve, located in the United Arab Emirates capital, where flamingos abound. The project seeks to make the building blend into the

Foster + Partners   United Kingdom   The refurbishment of original structure, designed by Cedric Price with Frank Newby and Lord Snowdon in 1962, provides a new walk-through home for the zoo’s troop of Colobus monkeys and includes a new education and community center...

Dorte Mandrup arkitekter   Norway   The village of Andenes, 300 kilometers from the Arctic Circle, is on the Norwegian island of Andøya, in an area frequented by whales on their migratory journeys. Here the Danish studio Dorte Mandrup will be building a seaside viewpoint for watching w

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The circular shape of the Panda House solves the problems arising from the complex conditions of the site, at the intersection of walkways between Copenhagen Zoo’s elephant, monkey, and Nordic fauna sections. At the same time, the circularity present

Goldsmith   Netherlands   On the shore of a harbor zone that is currently undergoing a large-scale regeneration process, an atypical dairy churns out its products sustainably and distributes them in the vicinity. 

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The circular shape of the Panda House solves the problems arising from the complex conditions of the site, at the intersection of walkways between Copenhagen Zoo’s elephant, monkey, and Nordic fauna sections. At the same time, the circularity present

Snøhetta   Norway   Because they work non-stop, bees – in the many varieties they come in everywhere – are among our chief suppliers of food, as much as one-third of food production in the world being dependent on pollination. They are also leading agents for keeping na

Batlle i Roig   Spain   The heart of the new Parque de Vallmora near Masnou (Barcelona) is a large equipped promenade that also serves as a grand balcony or mirador over the city. One of the most unique facilities built in the park is an ‘insect hotel’: a place that provide

SKROZ   Croatia   This complex in Rakov Potok, a small town near Samobor, in Croatia, is an eco-friendly poultry farm devoted to research on the production of CO2-free chicken eggs, but it was also built with the express intention of raising awareness about chicken br

Llowarch Llowarch Architects   United Kingdom   The six ravens kept since time immemorial at the Tower of London are bound to British royalty to such an extent that legend has it that if these birds “are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it.” Utmost care has therefore gone int

Kühnlein Architektur   Germany   This stable for goats in the small Bavarian municipality of Seubersdorf is exceptional as much in its formal and constructional simplicity – which makes it stand out in the agricultural landscape of the area – as in its undeniably domestic appearance

Manuel Cervantes Céspedes   Mexico   West of the Mexican city of Puebla, bordering with rocky land, is this complex whose ultimate purpose is to bring the life of people closer to the life of horses. Its facilities include a 35x70-meter riding arena, a series of stables, and a small con

OLA Studio   Australia   The new space for lemurs – the smallest existing primates, originally from the African island of Madagascar – was to encourage controlled interaction between these animals and visitors to Melbourne Zoo. With this in mind, the project relied on two im

Forgas Arquitectes   Spain   Endemic to the tropical jungles of Borneo and Sumatra, orangutans are animals with high cognitive abilities and the strength and skill to manipulate, activate, operate, and deconstruct mechanisms. Unlike gorillas and chimpanzees, orangutans do not li

Foster + Partners designed Dome-Home for the Goodwoof’s Barkitecture competition, which results in the Single Kennel Design Award. The canine event will take place on 28-29 May at Goodwood House in Chichester, southeast England. Bonhams will auction

Culture was first agriculture. Society, politics, and economics resulted from humanity’s gaining command of the techniques of sowing and harvesting and the parallel skills of raising animals; two practices that required thousands of years to master b

Vitruvius wrote that where building is concerned, human beings owe much to animals, the hut and the cave being versions of more primitive architectures: the nest crafted by birds, and the burrow dug by mammals. This essential similarity has been ackn

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Finnish architect and author Juhani Pallasmaa organized in 1995 in Helsinki an exhibition on constructions made by animals, from beehives to bird’s nests and beavers’ dams, a subject which has always interested and impressed professionals and pro

In the wake of Vitruvius, architects for centuries held buildings to have animal origins: that is, that humans built their huts like birds their nests or mammals their dens, so the den, the nest, and the hut were but three manifestations of the same

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We love animal architecture. The building prowess of some species and the mechanical design of organisms have served as inspiration for architects, but neither of those features helps to design animal homes. The collective works of social insects, fr

Uno de los zoos más grandes de los Países Bajos, el Burgers’ Zoo de Arnhem, cuenta con una nueva atracción llamada Rimba (‘selva’ en malayo) en la que se recrea un ecosistema tropical del Sureste Asiático y donde pueden verse tigres de Sumatra, leopa

En el Bois de la Bâtie, un frondoso parque público de Ginebra, los arquitectos de Group 8, junto con la ingeniería Guscetti y Tournier, han construido un aviario cuya estructura se asimila a los troncos de los árboles. Las medidas contra la expansión

Luis Fernández-Galiano   La vigencia de Charles Darwin se extiende a la arquitectura. En 2009, la coincidencia del segundo centenario del nacimiento del naturalista y el 150 aniversario de la publicación de El origen de las especies ha dado lugar a una proliferación de event

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Sooner or later, this magazine was bound to focus on the architecture of life. In the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th of the Publication of The Origin of Species –, Arquitectura Viva has wanted to join the celebration, which by the

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