Architecture

A composition of experiences and sensations in dialogue with Mount Fuji — Located on a richly undulating site at the foothills of Mount Fuji, this project consists of a cluster of three private villas. Each building is carefully positioned along a shared axis oriented toward the borrowed scenery of the mountain. While unified by this orientation, the three architectures embody distinct spatial conditions—floating, sinking, and enveloping—through which perception, bodily awareness, and the experience of time are reconfigured.

There are territories where life is organized around water, where light filters through branches, and the vegetation defines how the air moves.

rammed earth and concrete form adjaye associates’ accra studio   Designed as both workplace and architectural statement, the new Accra studio for Adjaye Associates is defined by a monolithic structure of rammed earth and low-carbon concrete. The building brings together office, gallery, and shared spaces within a single framework, positioning the workplace as a site […]

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After buying a townhome in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, these parents of two young children hired Habitar Design for a full remodel. In the 165-square-foot kitchen, dark cabinetry and limited storage made the narrow…

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Throughout much of history, weight has been closely associated with the very idea of architecture. Vitruvius, whose notion of firmitas linked construction to stability and permanence, understood solidity as one of its fundamental qualities, and building largely meant resisting the effects of time, gravity, and natural forces. In Greek and Roman architecture, monumentality depended on the available construction systems and materials, such as stone and solid masonry, whose expression was defined by mass, thickness, and structural repetition. Columns, walls, and podiums, beyond supporting buildings, asserted their presence in the territory, communicating order, durability, and power. Architecture met the ground with weight.