Zi Museum: Four Buildings That Turn a Meadow Into the Main Public Room
Zi Museum in Xianning distributes a museum, workshop, bookshop and tower across a lakeside meadow, separating exhibition routes from everyday public movement.
Project documentation and analysis across building types, scales and locations. Coverage examines the brief, spatial organisation, material choices and relationship to place, distinguishing design proposals from work under construction and completed buildings.
Compare projects through building typologies, examine their materials and construction methods, and place individual works within the wider discussion of architecture.

Zi Museum in Xianning distributes a museum, workshop, bookshop and tower across a lakeside meadow, separating exhibition routes from everyday public movement.

A spatial reading of WTC Yerevan’s proposed public terraces and shared skybridges, separating visible design intentions from untested performance.

Rusakov Club in Moscow turns a fan-shaped auditorium into three projecting volumes. A reading of audience movement, daylight and the limits of flexibility.

Eco-Oasis Pavilion is an unbuilt concept joining a movable greenhouse enclosure and shaded deck, with proposals for solar use and rainwater collection.

Corner Villa in northern Iran uses red recesses, a visible stair and roof terraces to connect arrival, living spaces and landscape within a pitched white form.

Roig Arena Park connects arena arrivals with everyday paths, planting, play and rest across a 47,000-square-metre landscape in Valencia.

Kinglet Perch in Naramata keeps its upper approach and pine grove, using a supported living wing and a grounded courtyard to offer two ways of inhabiting the hillside.

Ellen Browning Building in Portland connects private homes, shared amenities and planted terraces in a small co-housing development.

Pacific Library’s proposed renovation connects historic restoration with accessible circulation, a sunken garden and new community spaces.

Mirador House in Papudo uses a sheltered approach, angled rooms and terraces to negotiate a steep site and the Pacific outlook.

In Berlin, a timber-hybrid federal complex combines office modules, reception halls and a layered ceramic façade with a future change of occupant in mind.

In Bellevue Hill, Sydney, Luigi Rosselli Architects has renewed a house designed by George Reeves in 1963. The intervention begins…

The Intersecting House stands in a pine-filled residential area outside Warsaw, near Kampinos National Park. Exterio Architektura organized it as…

Chalet Moraine, designed by Appareil Architecture on a lake in Quebec’s Laurentians, replaces an aging chalet that began life as…

Villa HDV in Höllviken, at Sweden’s southern tip, treats privacy and openness as two parts of the same domestic problem….

Clifton Jones Jr.’s 1963 Long Beach duplex uses mirrored plans, separate courtyards and timed daylight to give two households distinct homes.

Casa M38 turns transport constraints into a clear 38-square-metre home with a linear plan, integrated furniture and circular windows.

Atelier Stéphane Fernandez organizes 200 student units around open-air galleries, shared services and a recycled-glass facade at the edge of a park in Nice.

Coughlin Scheel Architects expands a Fire Island house that survived Hurricane Sandy, using elevation, cedar screens and layered circulation as design tools.

Takero Shimazaki Architects expands The Yard Theatre through retained brickwork, a curved 224-seat auditorium and visibly reused materials.

SCAPE organises a seven-acre former-airport site as a learning landscape of ecological study, cultivation and outdoor classrooms.