A Place to Belong: Reimagining Boarding Schools as Communities for Connection and Belonging | Masters Design Project

‘A Place to Belong’ is a Masters Design Project by Khor Mei from the ‘Department of Architecture – Universiti Malaya.’ The project aims to reimagine the boarding school as a vertical community that responds to the social and spatial challenges faced by teenagers in dense urban environments. It seeks to create a safe, inclusive, and adaptable institution where students can live, learn, play and build meaningful relationships beyond the digital world.

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Akshardham Sales Office | Think With Us

Akshardham Sales Office by Think With Us reimagines the conventional sales office as a home-like experience. Designed as a sanctuary amidst the chaos of a construction site, the space uses natural materials, terracotta jali, water, greenery, light, and ventilation to create a welcoming sensory journey. The design aims to set the tone for the lives that will unfold within the homes.

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Mahachai Residence | Patara Architects

Mahachai Residence by Patara Architects is a riverside day-use villa that quietly carries the memory of the site’s working past into its structure and materials. Conceived as a place to rest, take in the Tha Chin River, and watch it turn gold at sunset, the residence combines industrial structural logic with the openness of a traditional Thai riverside house, creating a quiet connection between past and present.

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43 Social Housing Units | Peris + Toral Arquitectes

43 Social Housing Units by Peris + Toral Arquitectes adapts to Ibiza’s local climate through compressed earth construction, courtyards, solar atriums, and cross ventilation. The design prioritizes flexibility and adaptability through modular spaces, while the central kitchen-living room organizes each home. Interconnected courtyards and communal spaces encourage natural ventilation, social interaction, and comfort.

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SOLEA | Parekh Architects

SOLEA by Parekh Architects creates a tranquil spatial experience that indulges patrons in celebrating slow living. Inspired by the atmosphere of Indian spring, the restaurant design brings together greens, water, dried flowers and rustic materials to create a serene escape from the city chaos. Subtle changes in levels and a seamless connection with nature encourage patrons to slow down, unwind and savour the experience.

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Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art | BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is conceived as a village of interconnected pavilions and courtyards beneath a continuous, ribbon-like roof. Reinterpreting Suzhou’s traditional gardens and the ‘lang’—a long, covered corridor—the design weaves galleries, gardens, pathways, and water together, creating a man-made maze where architecture, nature, and art are interconnected.

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Da Birulia | Studio Shape Consults

Da Birulia by Studio Shape Consults is conceived as a nature-integrated vacation home that creates a continuous flow between functional and environmental aspects. With a limited footprint and minimal disturbance to the existing vegetation, the design establishes a seamless indoor-outdoor relationship, allowing architecture and landscape to merge. The retreat is designed as a serene environment to slow down, reconnect with nature, and spend meaningful time together.

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Studio SHAPE Consults

Studio SHAPE Consults, founded by Sabrina Mehjabeen Ratree, approaches architecture through people, place, and context. Its work combines research, observation, and practical design, with attention to climate, light, ventilation, materiality, accessibility, landscape, and indoor-outdoor connections. Grounded in human behavior and sustainability, the practice creates contextual, functional, climate-responsive spaces rooted in everyday life.

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The Bridge at Waring School | OPAL

The Bridge at Waring School by OPAL is designed as a new connection between the upper and lower campuses, spanning the wooded hillside and its 12-foot vertical slope. Two stacked volumes create a distinctive form that responds to the site and program, while the All-School Meeting space forms a central “hinge,” connecting the school community, landscape, and academic life.

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Element & Lingot | Studio Loes

Element & Lingot by Studio Loes explores intelligent redensification in a confined inner-city space. Guided by the idea to “Build less, much less, but dense, valuable, and durable!”, the design combines existing buildings with wooden modules and prefabricated concrete elements, creating future-oriented urban residential architecture through resource-conserving and serial construction.

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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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