Balance between built and nature

OOSARI -By Studio Dot DimensionFactsLocation: Surat, Gujarat Typology: Restaurant  Area: 4000 sqft Built up Completion: Sept’ 2025 Firm name: Studio Dot Dimension Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studiodotdimension?igsh=bjZsa243NHhzM3l1 Photography: Avesh Gaur Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avesh.gaur?igsh=dmNpdzgxa3Jtb2Fu Words: Ar. Sharmen Mehta Key pointers, Concept: Oosari reimagines the Gujarati osari (verandah) as a contemporary threshold for pause, gathering, and reflection.Essence: Marries vernacular warmth with modern restraint—reviving Indian spatial values through minimal geometry and calm materiality.Planning: A central gravel court anchors the layout, with a linear bar spine and wraparound v... En savoir plus

On a peninsula surrounded by a vast lake, in a setting that feels almost surreal, designers from NOKE have created a unique architectural project. In this intimate complex of holiday homes, they propose an alternative to the popular barn-style house, blending traditional Masurian materials, forms, and – above all – proportions with modern prefabricated timber technology. Every detail, down to the interiors, has been meticulously refined. Piotr Maciaszek Pasym is a town straight out of a postcard. Above its red rooftops rise the spires of churches and the town hall, while the reflections of its charming panorama dance across the surfaces of three lakes. The best views can be found on the expansive Ostrów peninsula, w... En savoir plus

Approached by a friend who represents a Minimal-window producer from Portugal, called PANORAMAH. We, were given the task of developing a sort of case study home, in the Murud region amidst a coconut grove.  The windows being super high-tech and modern in their presence were meant to disappear against the verdant view.   javiercallejas.com Caption Caption The plan evolved like a two headed worm, with the sleeping spaces in series and the higher main living and dining spaces flanking opposite ends of the series. The idea being, the tracing of a PARIKRAMA, a circum-ambulatory path, while moving from spaces, always in contact with the outside.  javiercallejas.com javiercallejas.com javiercallej... En savoir plus

The house is located on the border that separates a suburban development of single-family houses and a protected forest area. The main strategy followed in the project is to let the house take advantage of this special location and make the most of its double condition by merging them both; the wild nature of the forest on the one hand and the built or suburban environment on the other. Alberto Amores Alberto Amores Alberto Amores For this, the proposal aims to combine the building and the garden in one single solution, which is to be understood as the continuity of the wild forest into the plot. Hence, different types of spaces are proposed: some are designed to be occupied by people, others by nature, and the rest by both... En savoir plus

SOCIAL HOUSING and PIXEL-FARMING: a challenge on which the Mayor of Peccioli, Renzo Macelloni and architect Maria Alessandra Segantini, CEO of C+S Architects, are betting to repopulate the smaller towns in Italy.Segantini: “It is a new vision to give everyone a social home capable of generating quality food at affordable prices, regenerating impoverished landscapes, building cohesive multi-ethnic and multicultural communities, de-carbonising the construction sector and introducing innovation and circularity in the construction field to restore balance between buildings and nature.” C+S Architects (an architecture office based between Treviso and London, recent winner of the San Marino Roll of Honor and Italian Architect 202... En savoir plus