ba-rro reflects on Carabanchel Civic Loft and the evolving relationship between domestic space, production, and the city.
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Mumu Tashiro adds a blue stained-glass door with a fold-out bench to Ogikubo Bar in Tokyo, transforming a small renovation into a social gesture.
Hangzhou Empathy Museum is a community art museum in Hangzhou, China, created from an unfinished project that included a completed underground garage. The design converts part of the basement into galleries and wraps the above ground structure in curved stainless steel panels, forming a reflective urban shell. With a dramatic three storey spatial canyon, perforated facades and integrated underground exhibition halls, the museum redefines adaptive reuse and positions art as part of everyday city life.
Atelier tao plus c adds a lightweight pavilion to a historic village courtyard in China, creating a shared space between road and river.
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 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.
How Carlo Scarpa used craft, light, and detail to create timeless architecture, from Querini Stampalia in Venice to his most enduring works.
Set on the edge of Xinchang Ancient Town in the outer suburbs of Shanghai, Chunli Guesthouse begins with a simple, disarming first impression: rice fields stretching out in every direction.
