Dear FuturArc readers,
Let’s talk about this issue’s cover design for a bit.
For this theme, we wanted to express the concept of health/wellness as an intimate reality in one’s everyday life. And what’s more everyday than one’s home?
So, we took the bold Floating House in Thu Duc, Vietnam, as the ‘exemplar’ home, as we were told by the architect: “I believe that living a life surrounded by natural wind, light and greenery, with as few air-conditioners as possible, has a positive effect on one’s mental health.”
The colours pervading every nook and cranny of this cover—symbolising being in the pink of health—were based on Pantone’s colour of the year 2024: Peach Fuzz.1
Architecture and Health/Wellness Where before, architecture was conceived primarily to shelter and protect humans physically from the elements, today, architecture is tasked with elevating our overall health and well-being, with physical and mental aspects now viewed as a comprehensive whole.
In this modern age, health in architecture intersects typologies and programmes, private and public domains, as well as local and global impacts.
This issue explores how health and...
Table of Contents
1Q 2024: HEALTH/WELLNESS
Previous issues:
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4Q 2023: YEAR-END ISSUE | WATER
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3Q 2023: GREEN AWARDS | CROSS-GENERATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
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2Q 2023: OLD IS GOLD
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1Q 2023: MOBILITY & TRANSPORT
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4Q 2022: YEAR-END ISSUE | POLICY VS PRACTICALITY, PRACTICE VS PRINCIPLES, PROGRESS VS PLANET
3Q 2022: GREEN AWARDS | REINTERPRETATION
2Q 2022: NEW & RE-EMERGING ARCHITECTURE
1Q 2022: HOUSING ASIA
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