Archidiaries is excited to share the Project of the Week – Casa Tobi | Espacio 18 Arquitectura. Along with this, the weekly highlight contains a few of the best projects, published throughout the week. These selected projects represent the best content curated and shared by the team at ArchiDiaries.
The Dancing Bricks House by Andblack Studio balances spatial autonomy and shared living within a multi-generational 8BHK residence. Featuring a dynamic ceramic-block façade, the design plays with light and shadow while providing privacy and ventilation. Each floor functions as an independent home yet stays connected as part of a larger whole, creating an adaptable and cohesive urban residence.
SP Apartment, an interior design project by Studio Rei, is designed as a serene urban refuge that balances minimalism with warmth. The design combines cool grey textures and warm wood tones, using geometric volumes and rectilinear forms to create rhythm and proportion. Natural oak and teak accents, curated lighting, and seamless transitions enhance openness and intimacy, offering a cozy, modern atmosphere.
Studio Rei is an Ahmedabad-based design practice that blends creativity with a deep understanding of clients’ needs and dreams. By crafting personalized narratives, it creates bespoke architectural and interior experiences that resonate with each client’s story. With a focus on empathy, innovation, and detail, Studio Rei offers thoughtfully tailored designs that merge functionality with meaning.
‘School for Living Ruins’ is a Masters Design Project by Nicole Zhao from the ‘Bartlett School of Architecture – UCL.’ The project rethinks heritage preservation by transforming the Baths of Titus into a space that combines public engagement, conservation research, and sustainable material reuse. It seeks to challenge conventional, static approaches to preservation through a “care without conservation” strategy, treating the ruin as an active cultural resource rather than a fixed monument.
Shwet Villa by The Grid Architects is a sustainable, eco-conscious residence designed for a multi-generational family within the urban fabric of Ahmedabad. The design embraces minimalism, creating an ideal canvas for shadows. With 70% unbuilt, it promotes landscape and biodiversity, aiming to create a dialogue between the built and open, harmonizing architecture, nature, and cultural values into a serene, environment-friendly sanctuary.
Ammoudi House by Katerina Valsamaki Architects is designed as a flexible vacation home that integrates seamlessly with its natural landscape. Through a linear arrangement of low volumes that follow the site’s slope, the residence opens completely to the sea while remaining discreet from the street. Large glazed surfaces and pergolas blur boundaries between interior and exterior, creating a fluid connection with nature and light.
Katerina Valsamaki Architects is a practice focused on the design and construction of new buildings, renovations, interior design, and restorations. The office’s philosophy is to create aesthetic and experiential spaces that offer quality of life. The architecture focuses on simplicity, functionality, timelessness, equal interior/exterior relationships, a sense of spatial enlargement, and the effective use of natural and artificial light.
CPG House, designed by Obra Arquitetos, is organized in split levels, using staircases to separate and connect spaces without strict hierarchies. The residence’s design follows the upward-sloping terrain, allowing indoor areas to flow into outdoor spaces while minimizing earthworks. Inclined roof slabs bring in morning light, and a suspended garden at the lowest level opens views to the forest.
Magno Menino Deus, a housing project by OSPA Arquitetura & Urbanismo, features a luxury senior living development designed to balance autonomy and care. With medical support, social spaces, and rich neighborhood amenities, the design encourages independence without compromising on assistance. Thoughtful design integrates comfort, connection, and well-being across 190 units, crowned by rooftop spaces with panoramic views.
The Kaneka Wellness Center by Kengo Kuma and Associates and Taisei Design Planners Architects & Engineers is a welfare and healthcare facility designed to embody Kaneka’s “wellness first” policy. Set in a neglected thicket, the design preserves existing trees and integrates buildings into the woods with polyhedral roofs. Combining green roofs, solar cells, and environmental technologies, the architecture merges nature and sustainability.
Taisei Design Planners Architects & Engineers is a practice focused on social changes like modernization, post-war reconstruction, economic growth, and globalization. They have also contributed to community recovery and reconstruction after large-scale natural disasters, enhancing national resilience. They aim to create a vibrant environment for all members of society and create an ecologically sustainable global community.
‘Vertical Nurturing Community’ is an architecture thesis by Kaung Htet from the ‘Department of Architecture – National University of Singapore (NUS).’ The project explores how architecture can help Singapore address its demographic challenges of an aging population and declining fertility rates. It focuses on how built environments can foster social cohesion and family formation. The project reimagines urban housing as more supportive and less isolating, integrating human needs with spatial design to reclaim community in the vertical city.
Casa Tobi by Espacio 18 Arquitectura reinterprets traditional elements of its context through a playful architectural approach. Following simple architectural principles, the residence integrates with the steeply sloped site through a stepped design that fluidly reveals spaces and frames views. Blurring boundaries between interior and exterior, it creates a sensory experience where nature and architecture exist in harmony.
DKS House by MAS Architecture Workshop reimagines urban townhouse living by separating commercial and residential functions, placing living spaces on the upper floor to reduce noise, dust, and heat. A green core and layered facade improve the microclimate, while spatial openness and material contrast enhance personal experience values. The result is an introverted home that balances tradition with a calm, livable environment.
MAS Architecture Workshop is a design practice operating in the fields of project consulting, architectural design, interior design, landscape design, and product design. They pursue the spirit of minimalist architecture, connecting the order of spaces and expressing the essence of light and structure. Their design philosophy is creating projects whose architecture conveys the spiritual essence of place and cultural identity of the region.
Venu, a residence by Z–Design Studio, explores how design can work within given constraints to create a cohesive, functional, and soulful space. Guided by a “part to whole” philosophy, the project wove together pre-selected materials and functional needs into a unified spatial narrative. The integration of inventive strategies, bespoke details, and natural light created a calm, cohesive, and spiritually grounded space.
Antonio Raimondi College Library by TERRITORIAL features the transformation of an existing pavilion into a flexible, welcoming space for learning, reading, and interaction. The interior design of the library focuses on enhancing its natural light and comfort throughout the year. Color, adaptable furniture, and integrated storage create dynamic areas for different age groups, fostering creativity, focus, and collaboration.
Ōimachi House is a refurbishment project by Roovice focused on transforming a 73-year-old wooden house into a functional workspace by balancing clarity, preservation, and adaptability. Through subtle contrasts and layered elements, the renovation defines new functions while preserving traces of the original structure, creating a spatial identity shaped by the relationship between past and present.
‘Museum of Archaeology’ is an architecture thesis by Shubh Porwal from the ‘Parul Institute of Architecture & Research’ that proposes a museum transcending conventional exhibition spaces. By drawing from the unique cultural, historical, and geological context of Badami, it seeks to create an immersive architectural experience that not only preserves artifacts but also interprets and expresses the spirit of the place, fostering a deeper, more personal connection to its heritage.
Mr. Sloping by YCL Studio features the interior design of a cozy, tiny apartment in newly developed Paupys, Vilnius. In order to hide a huge recuperation pipe, the design idea led to creating a playful composition of sloping spaces and doorways. Featuring painted brick walls and concrete flooring, the interior showcases a contemporary, industrial aesthetic, imbuing character within a small, functional space.
Teruel House by Jorge Borondo Estudio and Ana Petra Moriyón features the adaptive reuse of a former architecture studio by exposing its concrete structure to enhance light, flow, and spatial clarity. The design preserves the essence of the original space, blending raw materials with warm finishes. It is a versatile, open space that adapts to evolving needs, functioning as both a home and a dynamic backdrop for daily life.
Ana Petra Moriyón, a Space Designer at Accenture Song, designs experiences that connect digital and physical worlds, exploring how these interactions will transform our environment in the future. An architect with experience in urban and speculative approaches, she has worked in architectural studios and has been invited juror and professor at institutions like the Architectural Association, IED, University of Alcalá, and Elisava.
Jorge Borondo Estudio, a design practice founded in 2020, works on projects of various scales and natures, ranging from furniture design to urban studies. His work primarily takes place in the realm of private commissions and competitions, encompassing residential, office, commercial, and mixed-use projects.
