The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has selected Represo Colosio Park in Heroica Nogales (Mexico) by Taller Capital as the winner of the 2022 MCHAP Award for Emerging Practice, an honor given by the Illinois Institute of Technology (
The New York practice of Sharon Davis worked with the NGO Possible Health and the Nepalese government in raising new medical facilities in Achham, one of Nepal’s poorest and most remote regions. Surrounded by mountains in the Seti River Valley, the c
Combining the advantages of the previous prototypes, the stainless steel lattice walls secure, support, and rigidify the frame of S House 3, which is clad with microcement and isolated from the ground by a concrete pedestal, ensuring its durability.
The housing crisis of the 1960s led to the construction in the northen part of the city of Bordeaux of the Cité du Grand Parc, a large-scale urban project that addressed the growing demand for dwellings in the aftermath of World War II. Now, in the f
The Songtaaba Women’s Association is made up of approximately 300 members from the village of Gando and the surrounding province of Boulgou. The association provides a venue for the local women to form a strong social and economic union, in order to
The teachers’ houses were designed to attract teachers out to the countryside, as well as to promote the use of earth as a sustainable and durable building material. The houses were realized as a series of adaptable modules, each of size comparable t
Health is a luxury in Africa, especially for the rural population, which lives so far from the few hospitals and healthcare centers of quality that exist in the countryside, such facilities tending to concentrate in capitals and large cities.
A compact layout, narrow shaded streets, and use of vernacular materials and solutions make this compound of social dwellings a medina perfectly adapted to te environment.
The building adopts the traditional typology of a house laid around a courtyard, and uses vernacular construction solutions including brick walls and bamboo roofs.
Kept open on its longer sides in order to maximize ventilation, the factory is built with cheap and locally available materials, such as bamboo stalks and concrete blocks and tiles.
The 22 one-family houses are arranged to form a complex of medium density, always opening up to the landscape; the idea is to combine the best of city and countryside.
The warped roofs formed by braiding innumerable sticks and stems of bamboo together are supported by steel pilotis that raise the building over a swamp and paddy field.
The competition brief that set the guidelines for this project called for a generic container whose interiors would remain throughout the year at temperatures between 18 and 25 degrees Celsius. The proposal involved modifying the initial planning, ma
The structure houses the workshop and exhibition gallery of a local artist and expert in Celadon pottery (traditional in the place). The building goes up on a two-meter high stonework plinth, right across from the main bridge that leads to the site o
Consisting of two hostels and a guest house, the complex built for the Longquan Bamboo Biennale typologically and constructively reinterprets local traditions. The floor plan is devised as a series of concentric rings of differing condition and mater
The project for an architectural studio at Calle San Jerónimo 17, just a few meters from the church of the same name, in the city of Granada, involved a radical transformation of a commercial space that had served different purposes in the course of
Drawing inspiration from the idea of a grove of trees, the paivlion is built with slender wooden footings holding up an inclined roof, which creates a microclimate of shade.
This building is located next to the river Thu Bon, in the Dien Ban district of Vietnam’s Quang Nam Province. Named Terra Cotta Studio, it was built as a workshop for the eminent local artist Le Duc Ha, and presents itself as a box measuring 7 cubic
Both the house and the office prototype are constructed with fiberglass roofs and polycarbonate facades, with interior surfaces clad with bamboo. The space inside is subdivided by curtains and different floor heights to create furniture elements.
The light frame, made of precast concrete modular elements to which the users bolt on Nipa palm tree panels and polycarbonate, makes it possible to do without complex foundations, allowing for transportation in small boats.
The pavilions are covered with frames of wooden planks of several tones, with densities addressing the degrees of privacy and solar protection required in each interior space.
Instead of taking down the existing slums and implementing low-quality refurbishment plans, the community is encouraged to build and improve its homes through the collaboration among neighbors, local artists and professional designers.
This house of 80 m³ and 27 m², designed for two people and transportable in a standard truck, is scalable and can be set up instantly. It contains three differentiated spaces: a living area/kitchen, a full bathroom with shower and one bedroom.
Francis Kéré commences a third century for our monographs, and there are good reasons for this. The most evident refer to his leading role in a new generation of architects determined to build a better world working for those in need, for whom the Bu
Xitou Village, hidden in the green hills and clear waters of Baoxi Town, Longquan City (Zhejiang Province), is one of the birthplaces of the Celadon ceramic culture. Inconvenient transportation somewhat shields it from the influence of rapid urbaniza
Packaged in boxes of 2.5 x 2 meters, the shelter designed by Ikea for refugee camps weights 169 kilograms and can be assembled in just four hours.
The exhibition at the Architekturmuseum in Munich on the work of Francis Kéré, ‘Radically Simple’ serves to remember his long relationship with Spain.
