A rural hotel in Portugal transforms two traditional schist houses with minimal concrete cantilevers overlooking the Serra da Estrela mountains.
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Atelier tao plus c adds a lightweight pavilion to a historic village courtyard in China, creating a shared space between road and river.
Alfinach Development is a residential project of three industrialised houses conceived as a unified architectural composition.
The Inverted Farmhouse is a contemporary architectural intervention that reconsiders the future of rural heritage in Switzerland. By reversing the original domestic and agricultural functions of a 19th century farmhouse, the project transforms the former barn into a new dwelling while converting the original house into a greenhouse dedicated to permaculture. Through a timber structural grid aligned with the existing roof framework, the inserted living volume remains embedded within the logic of the historic structure. Intermediate spaces emerge as productive and social thresholds, redefining the relationship between living, cultivation, and architectural memory.
This project explores how architecture can act as a living system where spatial energy is not an abstract concept but a daily experience shaped through movement, interaction, and ritual. Conceived as a kinetic cafe in a small town in Zhejiang, China, the design integrates branding, interior architecture, and mechanical elements into a coherent spatial narrative. Through rotating plans, movable structures, and responsive facades, everyday actions such as entering, serving, sitting, and gathering become carriers of architectural meaning. The project positions the cafe as a social condenser, where space actively participates in shaping community life.
This project explores how an existing building can be re read through deliberate structural disruption. By inserting a visible and intrusive structural system, limiting demolition, and working systematically with lines, colour, and reflective surfaces, the intervention transforms friction and imperfection into architectural agency.
A contemporary guesthouse in Ukraine reimagines the traditional hata mazanka with light, transparency, and a sculptural roof.
A mixed use cultural hotel in Guangzhou that reinterprets traditional Qi Lou architecture through colonnades red concrete and river facing guest rooms at Aranya Jiulong Lake.
A concrete wing shaped house on São Miguel Island blends landscape, light, and material into an essential architecture for slow and thoughtful living
Located in Nagpur, near the geographic centre of India, Cielo is a residential project by Sanjay Puri Architects that translates extreme climatic conditions into architectural form. Conceived as a vertical sequence of single apartments, the building integrates cross ventilation, layered balconies, and curved screening elements to reduce heat gain and enhance passive cooling. The project reflects a contemporary interpretation of regional architectural traditions, embedding environmental performance and spatial clarity within a compact urban footprint.
