Author: Jayakrishnan Ranjit

A creative collaboration between London-based architects Steyn Studio and Square One Landscape Architects based in South Africa has stemmed an effortless fusion between architecture and landscape. The spellbinding design of the Die Spens & Winkel, a garden café that binds over gripping buildings and terrain with intricate trellis assemblies. Imbibing in Breedekloof Valley, South Africa’s Western Cape treasures a great cultural history, and the architects lure their inspiration from the stories of the valley. A small restaurant/café called ‘Die Spens’ (The Pantry) and gift shop (‘Winkel’), brewed on the Bosjes Estate, showcasing a fascinating and inspiring journey between the two…

The modern age comes with a price. Our world needs a constant update in the way we act and perform our duties. Every central urban configuration faces the ‘Urban Heat Island’ effect, drowning inhabitants in unescapable heat and adversity. A team of specialists has acted upon this to enshrine a positive change. The Climate Active Bricks project answers to climate-damaging urban architecture with innovative brick wall solutions. The team’s core idea cracks at modifying the case of microclimate in cities. In Germany, the context of climate change and inner-city compaction coins increasing heating of the urban structures. The ‘Climate Active…

An office or a workspace edifice has evolved over many years, transforming and adapting its abstract form, function, and style. NG Architects define something woven between modernistic and parametric fabric in bestowing the Ivy Office building in Iran. An office as a second home was the striking thought of architect Navid Ghandili when he embarked on this design problem. While conceiving the aesthetics and practicality of the design, the designers ushered in the presence of users in their working place, how they use most hours of the day. The spirited initiation took off, delivering an environmental concept to the observer.…

The most delicate blend of taste and architecture springs an exotic winery slashed along an enticing serenading landscape. Cantina Del Bruciato presents an artistic elevation of steeping angular silhouette scoring in contrast to the blue skies. The architecture studio, asv3 Officina di Architettura, nurtured their creative concepts from ancient rural settlements integrated with specific environmental and technical construction parameters of today. “….. Nearby there will be the wine cellar with windows to the north; if it had them somewhere else, where it could be heated by the sun, the wine of that cellar, undone by the heat, would lose its…

Trailing from the design principles that conceived the Heavenly Water Service Center, the Earthly Pond Service Center inculcates design responding to the three elements of architecture, environment and human in a symposium. HHD_FUN architects delved into the concept of visual drama encircling a lake wetland in Qingdao, China. The designers have created a sunken courtyard adjoining the lake wetland by colloquial use of the natural gradient. Subsequently, multiple iterations of architecture and landscape elevations set the natural grade levels, integrating numerous access and viewing experiences from every rise and fall. In addition, the central spaces skim down from the surrounding…

Envisioning a habitat that incorporates reading and making impels architects to explore beyond realms. Salon Alper Derinbogaz has integrated an open proposal for the new Songdo library in South Korea. The honourable mention project captures education and innovation for future learners weaved into a flexible space intertwined by knowledge, making and technology. International Competition for Songdo Library in South Korea hurdled waves as creative and sophisticated design works from bright minds approached with an international extempore. The competition manifested, in addition, to explore as an intellectual and cultural symbol of the Songdo citizens progressing as a global city. The design…

The renowned creative and experimental studio FAHR 021.3 weaves ‘LOOP’ an innovative sculpture cum seating at the University of Porto, Portugal. Expressed as an element of celebration to the 10th anniversary of Science and Technology Park at UPTEC. The FAHR designers challenged to symbolize and conceive an intriguing structure for the garden in front of the central building. They were profoundly setting a mark in time and a vision to the future, the installation scores as an iconic symbol for the park. The concept developed from a variety of silhouettes screened capable of being a center in Asprela. Moreover, a…

Creating, moulding and shaping material to formulate a design require immense factor checks. One such comprehensive material system known as Metaplas have dappled through the bargain. Breaking contemporary design-and-build methods into a model that merges design, materiality, structural requirements, and fabrication through innovative digital tools and techniques. Euston Station’s new electrifying canopy, visualized by Metaplas in a large-scale architectural setting, commences as a superior and dashing structure. The decentralized fabrication establishes identification and mapping techniques to scatter, recycle and 3D print within a radius from the site. Also, the fabricated panels boost the local economy, breaks the economic displacement and…

An experimental digital approach to conceive a brick shelter takes more than one hand. It is also known as Code Bothy Brick Shelter fruited at Grymsdyke Farm in Buckinghamshire, hand-built using an AR headset. An innovation of collaborative research by Material Architecture Lab and architects Piercy&Company. Code-Bothy fuse digital technologies with traditional bricklaying, proposing a transformed vision of the future. In addition, heralding an opportunity albeit obsolescence for this ancient craft. The structure bases on a bothy – a classic shelter of the remote areas open for anyone to use. Simultaneously a traditional bothy incorporates intuitively simple geometries. The design…

The imagination of living in a shell explores immense concepts and philosophies. One such bright and elegant form is an egg. Designed by Yurii Papikian, OVOID’s vision and core thinking crafts a micro-home with a minimal building footprint of 25m2. The fundamental problem of typical compact houses bounces with the limitation of free space. A prolonged stay in such homes slogs individuals to feeling isolated and confined. The OVOID theory extracts maximum usage of the given area and affords a comfortable and healthy living environment. Based on an egg’s shape, the interior volume covers a small surface area, making it…