One of the advantages of architecture designed only for the metaverse is that, since it is never actually materialized, the high carbon emissions associated to construction never occur. Utopia is a structural exploration that exemplifies this asserti
The main facade of the medical facility takes on a representative role with a loggia that, from the street, differentiates the spaces destined for public use from the office and lab areas, distributed in the modular column-free floors of the rear vol
A new medical research facility located on the campus of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem serves the scientific community while fostering general public interest in its pioneering activities.
In the third city of the UAE, the Al Manakh neighborhood will be the location of the new seat of The Africa Institute, the only organism in the Gulf devoted to studying the culture of African peoples and their relations with Arab countries. The proje
The Barcelona Ciutadella del Coneixement initiative aims to transform the area around Ciutadella Park into a southern European hub for innovation in biomedicine, biodiversity, and planetary well-being. The BIST, which will be the first piece in the d
A tower containing unobstructed spaces is the solution adopted on a small plot from which a ‘fab lab’ seeks to take part in revitalizing the port area of the city of Caen. The brief left the program largely undefined, which gave rise to a series of s
In a pleasant atmosphere around a garden, a facility on the outskirts of Toulouse provides research and meeting spaces for archeologists working in nearby excavations. A simple porticoed structure harbors a series of flexible spaces with generous ope
The studio’s experience designing and building Structures of Landscape served as starting point for the research behind the Towers of Landscape, presented in the first edition of the Orleans Archtitecture Biennial. This research questions whether it
Ca’n Terra is the house of the earth. The fruit that nature gives as a found space, which requires tillage and cultivation to imbue the received offering with domesticity. If the history of civilization has greatly evolved transforming ideas into bui
Through drawings and models, the research project questions clichés in architectural language. It has developed into an experimental house and an exploration of architecture and dance, in collaboration with choreagrapher Jessica Lang... [+]
The biological research center is designed as an organic system that evolves with time thanks to the use of modular parts that function both individually and in an integrated manner with the rest, favoring an interior-exterior interaction.
The scheme was determined from the outset by a double requirement: to maintain an existing building and to increase its area to adapt to the teaching and research needs of the university’s Cellular Biology and Genetics departments. Built at the begin
Foster Partners is part of a consortium set up by the European Space Agency (ESA)to explore the possibilities of 3D printing to construct lunar habitations. Addressing the challenges of transporting materials to the moon, the study is investigating t
Collective Intelligences is an open base of non-standardized construction details. While How much cable do you want? allows measuring lengths with an electricity meter and the Drum Lamp reuses plastic bottles, the Inkacycle prototype generates electr
On the axis between Lisbon and Coimbra, the Technological Park in Obidos is planned with the aim of linking academic research with business production, especially in the field of creative industries. The project for the main building, by the Portugue
This project won first prize in an ideas competition that the University of León held in September 1996 to obtain an architect for its Research and Environment Institute. The brief called for economy, optimization of resources, functionality and low
Fire, nests, dens, trees, primitive huts, machines, babels: architecture has always inspired metaphorical genealogies – discredited for the most part but maintaining their evocative powers, so the ‘origin’ notion remains valid, even fruitful, as the
The Cosentino Design Challenge international competition seeks to promote research revolving around the configuration of spaces, materials, and building systems. The 13th edition brought in 350 candidates and three prizes were given in each of two se
Urban actors are exploring new concepts, methods, and forms of organization to deal with the physical, social, and environmental challenges that our cities currently face. We have thus borne witness to a profusion of calls for tenders, competitions,
the interpretative ability of Santiago Ramón y Cajal continues to amaze us today, when seeing his images side by side with those taken today by modern microscopes, as gathered in the exhibition entitled Paisajes neuronales, which describes the evolut
