Architecture : Research Guide

Located in the Vale dos Vinhedos, in Garibaldi, Rio Grande do Sul, Casa Pisçude was born from a rare and peculiar feature of its site: the only plot in the gated community with a natural pond, left by the previous owner. Even before the house existed, the clients transformed the pond into a pool, using it during the summers with family and friends — leading to a playful portmanteau that eventually became the project's official name: it wasn't quite a pool (piscina in Portuguese), but rather a "Pisçude" (pool-pond). When it came time to design the residence, it made no sense to call it anything else.

Occupying a corner plot in Torrefiel—one of Valencia's most humble neighborhoods—Casa Nido is conceived as an exercise in protecting and highlighting the scarce and valuable built heritage still preserved in the streets of this key peripheral district in the city's north.

SP(R)INT STUDIO, together with London-based design partner Nissen Richards Studio, has created the permanent exhibition, interior, and graphic design for Gígur Visitor Centre in North Iceland, along with the center's welcome area, café, and shop.

In a 76-square-meter attic apartment dating from the 1990s, a radical reorganization of space transforms a fragmented, dated layout into a single, light-filled continuum.

EA House is a family home carefully crafted onto a sensitive rock cliff face escarpment in the southern highlands. A simple elemental gesture testing emotional responses on a difficult and unique site. An experimental house, while simple in form, solves many overlapping constraints and challenges that exist because of the site. A leftover parcel of land from a suburb that was planned before realizing there was a giant cliff & gorge. Since being deemed unbuildable, the site has been empty ever since.

Cafe N+ was designed as a new vibrant hub connecting a historic shrine with a newly built performing arts theater in Takatsuki City, aiming to create an architecture that seamlessly harmonizes with the existing landscape while maintaining its own distinct identity.

Chapadmalal is a coastal town located in the southeast of the Buenos Aires province, halfway between Mar del Plata and Miramar. It is a popular Argentine destination for water sports enthusiasts, particularly surfers, and is also known for its culinary scene. The area uniquely blends a rural atmosphere with a maritime climate.

The design for the new Panō store, located on Garcia D'Ávila Street in Ipanema, faced the challenge of distributing the program of the former Casa Panō, previously organized on a single level, across three floors. Vertical circulation was treated as the structuring element of the project, creating a path where each floor offers an intentional change in atmosphere, with choices aimed at establishing a dialogue with the brand's identity and memory.

Riera is the renovation of a flat in a 1960s building, located along the former course of the Riera de Matamoros, in the historic centre of Badalona. The plot has elongated proportions, and the depth of the floor plan is interrupted by a courtyard.

Located in the residential Costière district of Le Havre, France, Lecomte Apartment transforms the ground floor of a former family house into a calm and contemporary 55-square-meter home.

In the historic part of Poznań's Grunwald district, adjacent to the renowned Abisynia housing estate, stands an interwar villa distinguished by its modernist character. A quintessential example of 1930s architecture, the building was constructed in accordance with stringent development regulations of the era. Its geometric form and refined proportions are devoid of ornamentation, rustic elements, or pilasters—hallmarks of the modernist aesthetic.

The Luxe Lakes CPI Island Commercial Renewal Project is a collection of villa models located on the east side of Luke Island in the "Luxe Lakes Ecological City" of Chengdu. More than 20 former Luxe Lakes Villa models have been located on the island. CPI Island needs a revitalized urban renewal and commercial iteration to reset the idle old properties on these islands, activate the connection between waterfront, human habitation, and commerce. Through a series of systematic planning and design, vari architects renovated and expanded ten existing buildings, and designed and built ten new buildings based on the terrain, reconstructing the axis system and spatial relationships of the original si..

From the top of El Morro hill, this house acts as a suspended lookout, peering over the trees and rocks to capture the majestic view of the entire Zapallar bay in a single gesture.

"Raconte-moi un secret" is an interactive sound installation that invites the public to share and listen to anonymous confessions, transforming individual experiences into a collective, ever-evolving soundscape.

Meadow House presented us with an opportunity to work within the exceptional Santa Lucia Preserve in the Carmel Valley. Both the site and brief paved the way for a challenging and, ultimately, deeply rewarding process.

TreeBOX – Casa sull'Albero, designed by Studio Officina82, is part of Selucente, an innovative hospitality project centered on the recovery of the alpine hamlet of Alpisella in the Ligurian-Piedmontese Alps.

Coastal is an inspiring exploration of Flonda’s most exquisite high-end and boutique homes where architecture, design, and the spirit of the sea come together. Through stunning photography and captivating storytelling, the book reveals how light, texture, and craftsmanship define modern coastal Ilving From sun-washed beachfront estates in Naples to serene retreats along the Gulf and Atlantic shores, each home reflects a distinct interpretation of coastal elegance that is rooted in its surroundings yet elevated by sophisticated design. Featuring projects by visionary architects and designers, Coastal highlights spaces that blur the lines between indoors and out, creating an effortless dialo..

This is a book about the amenity that we call streets and how we choose to use them to move about. What makes the street so vitally important today is that it has the capacity to allow for many different modalities of travel to coexist in the public space instead of being dominated by any single mode of travel. Glideology, an invented word, is meant to evoke memories of gliding downhill on your bicycle as a child or sledding down a hill in the winter. Glideology represents an optimistic outlook for traffic for the near future. It anticipates that common-sense

For millions of displaced children and young people, education unfolds amid conditions of forced mobility, administrative uncertainty, and prolonged precarity. Schools situated in borderlands, refugee settlements, and sites of climate-induced displacement therefore operate as more than educational facilities. They become spatial infrastructures that negotiate the contradictory demands of emergency and continuity, offering environments where learning persists despite the instability of legal status, living conditions, and the very feeling of being at home.

The restoration of the Breuer building follows a light-touch approach, preserving defining features while introducing subtle upgrades to meet Sotheby's functional and operational needs while honoring Marcel Breuer's original design. Each found space is scrutinized and re-evaluated for its architectural and programmatic value, shaping an experience of the building that honors both continuity and transformation. The project underscores the role of preservation in safeguarding a cultural landmark while ushering it into its next era.