Skinning the Landscape: The Beauty of the Imprint – Reimagining Tannery Architecture Through Craft, Memory, and Landscape | Bachelors Design Project

‘Skinning the Landscape’ is a Bachelors Design Project by Kate-Olivia Wakeford from the ‘Bartlett School of Architecture – UCL.’ The project aims to reinterpret traditional vegetable tanning through architecture, creating a functioning tannery rooted in its landscape, material processes, and craft traditions. It explores how natural materials, existing terraces, structural systems, and traces of making can shape spaces that connect production, craftsmanship, and the experience of place.

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Casa FPW | Obra Arquitetos

Casa FPW by Obra Arquitetos is organized to take advantage of the steep slope of the original topography. A central stair axis structures the different levels, while the lower positioning of the spaces creates unobstructed views of the surrounding landscape. Voids connect the levels, integrating the social and private areas with the surrounding vegetation and creating a strong visual connection between the residence and its natural setting.

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WOMA | MVRDV

WOMA by MVRDV is designed as a porous stack of small, human-scaled blocks that builds upon the existing character of Wynwood Norte. Colourful, textile-inspired façades draw from the neighbourhood’s connections to fashion, art, and craft, while landscaped public spaces and a central plaza create a vibrant, community-oriented setting where people can meet, interact, and feel part of the neighbourhood.

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Ouse Fashion Lobby | Say Architects

Ouse Fashion Lobby by say architects extends the warmth of the brand from clothing into space. Rooted in Hangzhou and guided by the idea that design should outlast trends, the lobby creates a timeless, natural environment through the language of lotus leaves, soft light, stone and wood. Rather than a lavish display, the space is sustained by the strength of design, allowing the brand’s aesthetic to settle deeper into time.

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Le Casa Lion Resort | d6thD design studio

Le Casa Lion by d6thD design studio is shaped by a dialogue with its surroundings, where architecture becomes less about building and more about belonging. Inspired by the lion’s den, the design interprets deep, sheltered, cave-like spaces through tunnel-like volumes and brick vaults, creating a retreat that feels immersed in the wilderness while remaining grounded in its landscape.

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Standard House | KWK Promes

Standard House by KWK Promes is based on the idea of creating a house that can fit every plot. Its round form adapts easily to different site shapes, while the choice of roof type responds to varying landscape conditions. The flexible interior plan further allows the residence to adapt to the individual needs of each family, making it a universal and highly adaptable dwelling.

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Gaughar | Compartment S4

Gaughar by Compartment S4 reimagines the gaushala as an animal shelter that is open, breathable, and shaped by care, ecology, and empathy. Conceived as a living landscape rather than back-of-house infrastructure, the design brings together light, air, movement, and locally rooted craft to create a climate-responsive environment that supports the health, behaviour, and dignity of animals.

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Adentro House | Tetro Arquitetura

Adentro House by Tetro Arquitetura explores how an extensive program can be accommodated on a densely wooded plot while preserving as much existing vegetation as possible. The project reads the voids between the trees, inserting architecture within these available spaces. A continuous circulation path connects the house, while courtyards and preserved trees make the void as important as the built form.

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Telecommunication MNC | Radical Edge Design + Design Studio Associates

Telecommunication MNC by Radical Edge Design and Design Studio Associates transforms the workplace into a contemporary office rooted in the landscape of the Deccan Plateau. Inspired by the monsoon colours of the Sahyadris and the vivid Flame Lily, the design balances openness, collaboration, functionality, and visual dynamism through vibrant accents, muted greys, and basalt-inspired elements.

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Radical Edge Design

Radical Edge Design is a multidisciplinary architectural consultancy specializing in contemporary architecture, master planning, luxury interiors, corporate spaces, and façade design. The practice combines a technology-led approach with sustainable, human-centric design principles, collaborating with cross-disciplinary experts to deliver thoughtful, innovative, and comprehensive turnkey solutions for diverse clients.

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Green House | Peris + Toral Arquitectes + L3J Tècnics Associats

Green House by Peris + Toral Arquitectes and L3J Tècnics Associats creates a compact social housing block organized around a dynamic bioclimatic atrium. Conceived as a public street within the building, the atrium acts as a social condenser and an environmental strategy, creating an intermediate space for interaction, community life, natural ventilation, and daylight while passively reducing energy demand.

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Departamentos DGB | Estudio MMX

Departamentos DGB by Estudio MMX explores the idea of intertwining residential units to respond to the site while ensuring privacy, flexibility, and independence. The design integrates a traditional patio scheme with green landscapes, generous outdoor areas, terraces, and gardens, creating a continuous relationship between public and private spaces and offering multiple views towards the city and the building itself.

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Not A Hotel Setouchi | BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

Not A Hotel Setouchi by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is conceived as an extension of the dramatic topography of Sagishima, blending Scandinavian and Japanese design. The villas follow the island’s natural contours, using rammed earth made from soil directly from the site. Curving forms, open facades, and private courtyards create a seamless dialogue between architecture, landscape, and the Seto Inland Sea.

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Novolife Headquarters Office | Studio Krubka

Novolife Headquarters Office by Studio Krubka translates Novolife’s philosophy into an architectural environment where landscape, climate, and everyday work are organized beneath a gently curving roof. Integrating rainwater, daylight, natural ventilation, and circulation, the design creates a workplace where architecture and nature function as one, making environmental systems part of the everyday architectural experience.

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Studio Krubka

Studio Krubka is a Bangkok-based architecture and interior design practice grounded in curiosity, respect, and multidisciplinary exploration. Balancing Thai identity with international sensibilities, the studio creates thoughtful spaces through dialogue between people, place, material, and ideas. Its work combines conceptual depth, rigorous detailing, and contextual design to deliver spaces that are functional, personal, and quietly expressive.

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Riverbend | OPAL

Riverbend by OPAL is a residence designed to knit together the different functional areas of the home – garage, living, and workshop – into a single, efficient articulated building form. A centralized office and screened porch function as a bridge between the workshop and the home, creating an interior connection between the primary living spaces and spaces for year-round projects.

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MOMM | Studio Loes

MOMM by Studio Loes explores the concept of “Always along the firewall,” transforming a fragmented historic apartment through custom-made built-in furniture in wood and natural stone. The design creates an intuitive path through the rooms, blending preserved historic architectural elements with contemporary design. Inspired by the Japanese tokonoma, sculptural objects balance functionality, craftsmanship, and aesthetic expression.

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Up the Street: Reimagining Los Angeles Housing Through Vertical Neighborhoods | Architecture Thesis

‘Up the Street’ is an architecture thesis by Elizabeth Dharmaputra from the ‘Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).’ The project explores how Los Angeles can accommodate more housing without losing the spatial qualities of single-family living. It reimagines the street as a vertical framework, reorganizing homes, lots, driveways, yards, and individual addresses in three dimensions to create denser collective housing while preserving domestic autonomy and neighborhood identity.

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Champawat Market Plaza | Compartment S4

Champawat Market Plaza by Compartment S4 explores whether architecture itself can operate as a craft. Local material knowledge and craft practices shape the building’s structure, material, enclosure, and spatial experience, allowing making, exchange, learning, and leisure to coexist. The project positions craft not as a curated artifact, but as a living system capable of shaping space, economy, and identity.

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House between Walls | Studio UF+O

House between Walls by Studio UF+O is a contemporary interpretation of traditional planning strategies in Rewatra, Rajasthan. Drawing from the practice of using common walls to reduce incident heat, the home is encased between 40-foot-tall walls that create privacy and security. The main built volume is inset from these walls, forming linear spaces that function as light wells, bringing natural light and ventilation into the enclosed structure.

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Auto-Family House | KWK Promes

Auto-Family House by KWK Promes represents a new way of thinking about the entrance area in a suburban residence. The design transforms the driveway and entrance into a unique multifunctional space, where the moment of driving into the house becomes a pleasant experience. A green roof preserves the garden, creating a tunnel that emerges from the landscape and becomes a house.

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Pod for Happiness | Craft Narrative

Pod for Happiness by Craft Narrative is an outdoor play and community space designed around the existing banyan tree. Inspired by the village’s connection to nature and community, the POD embraces the tree as its centerpiece. Its porous, arc-shaped form connects the two playgrounds, creating a playful and communal space that blends seamlessly with its natural surroundings.

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Factory[n]Certainty: Redefining Industrial Architecture Through Work, Life, and Community | Bachelors Design Thesis

‘Factory[n]Certainty’ is an architecture thesis by Siam Rahman from the ‘Department of Architecture – North South University.’ The project aims to reimagine the factory as an adaptable social and cultural ecosystem that integrates work, living, learning, and leisure. By combining modularity, computational design, and community spaces, it seeks to reconnect industrial production with everyday life, creating a human-centred environment where productivity and collective experience coexist.

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Eugenia Wow Condos | Reyes Ríos + Larrain + Gabriel Konzevik

Eugenia Wow Condos by Reyes Ríos + Larrain and Gabriel Konzevik is a multifamily housing project that balances high-level design with a rational and accessible cost of production. Its design responds to climate, neighbourhood scale and context, integrating green areas, communal spaces and amenities to foster a sense of community, while natural light, cross ventilation and local materials enhance quality of life.

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