Lo-Hi Tech: The New Primitive Hut is the latest installation of Studio SKLIM’s research project, which explores ‘primitive’ building materials such as terracotta and plant fibre composites to foster climate-appropriate sustainable materials. It was inspired by the work of architects and philosophers like Viollet-le-Duc, Laugier and Vitruvius, who rooted architecture in Nature. This project poses […]
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Amidst Yangon’s shift towards luxury developments, this grassroots initiative stands out as a pilot project for a more humanised city development, making use of a locally abundant material. The site is located in Myanmar’s Yankin Township, north of downtown Yangon, close to Inya Lake along a rainwater open-air canal. This space was originally used by […]
Japanese-Italian fusion goes beyond food and into building materials in this contemporary teahouse prototype called Veneti-An. The prototype is part of Time Space Existence, a European Cultural Center exhibition held in parallel with the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2023. Its design explores sustainability through materials and connection to the local context. Around the world, tea […]
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In line with our ongoing design competition FuturArc Prize (FAP) 2023: Cross-Generational Architecture, we are highlighting projects along the theme for your inspiration. Click here to learn more about the brief! ⠀ As populations age, what is the best model of care and empowerment for senior citizens? In Singapore, where a quarter of citizens is […]
At COP27’s Buildings Pavilion Auditorium, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) presented an update to their Urban Sequoia vision, introduced last year as a conceptual skyscraper that could absorb more carbon than it emits, akin to a living organism. The update, called Urban Sequoia NOW, brings the futuristic concept to be readily constructible today. RELATED: Commentary […]
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Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated regions. At the same time, it has one of the lowest birth rates worldwide (and all-time lowest recorded) at 0.774 per woman of child-bearing age as of 2021. According to the designers behind this project, 10 per cent of Hong Kong’s workforce or around 400,000 […]
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Jakarta is “the city where nobody wants to walk”, wrote the team behind this proposal. In the bustling metropolitan, home to 10.5 million people, the arterial roads are in a state of perpetual congestion due to the high volume of private vehicles. Despite being the world’s fourth most populous nation, Indonesia ranked last in a […]
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Containment reinforcement technology was first used by Hunnarshala in reconstruction efforts after the Kachchh earthquake of 2001. At the time, they built 400 homes with 6-millimetre mild steel bars outside the stone masonry with mud mortar and RCC bands. “UNDP was working with Abhiyan. We decided to make a model house in every village where […]
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Throughout all of human history, life has followed water. Yet, to this day, almost a third of global households still lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation. The problem is especially pertinent in rural areas, where there are infrastructure constraints and unsanitary latrine habits that contaminate water sources. In Cambodia, approximately 77 per cent […]
AirMesh, designed by Carlos Bañón, FuturArc Prize 2022 juror, is an award-winning pavilion which serves as both a gathering space and a light sculpture made out of stainless-steel 3D-printed components. The design follows Eurocode regulations and is the first 3D-printed structure that has been approved by the Singapore Building Construction Authority (BCA) for occupation as […]
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Architectural events and Expos—which have started to cautiously reopen around the world within the past months—are avenues for the exchange of ideas, and a primary part of these events are pavilions. These structures, which represent and articulate messages, are opportunities to test-bed novel architecture and building techniques. Such events need to be conscious of their […]
