A Room Becomes a Camera: Compound Camera 3
An inflatable room uses 221 lenses to project its surroundings onto touch-responsive surfaces, connecting product-scale optical design with spatial experience.
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Atherton Residence: Making Room for Art and Everyday Life
At Atherton Residence, art shapes the entrance, seating and dining arrangements. A reading of how display and everyday use share an interior.
Tree Snake Houses: Living Above the Forest Floor
At Pedras Salgadas in Portugal, compact raised dwellings turn the access path, forest floor and framed views into a larger architectural experience.
Gateway Public Library: A Canopy for Civic Life in the Desert
Gateway Public Library in Mesa brings reading, shared activity and shaded outdoor space beneath one canopy, with adaptability built into its service layout.
Stevens Ranch Library: Making Room for Reading, Work and Play
A person arriving to read quietly and a family arriving to explore need different things from the same public building….
Casa Vereda: How Brick Vaults Shape the Interior
An interior reading of Casa Vereda in Murcia, with an original ArchUp axonometric connecting photographs to the plan, organised galleries and a drawing file.
The Value Is in the Verb, Not the Noun
Place two images side by side on a screen, pixel for pixel identical, and tell one room of people that…
The Burrows: Joining a House and Former Clinic into One Home
A Seattle renovation joins a former clinic and family home through new internal connections, an open kitchen and retained mid-century materials.
Monastic Field: A Concrete House That Turns Inward Beside a Busy Temple
Roomoor’s Monastic Field uses a low concrete cluster, a pyramidal skylit hall and controlled openings to protect family life beside a busy Jain temple.
The Door Is Quiet. Can the Room Still Breathe?
A measured study of door-bottom gaps shows why sound isolation and return-air flow must be commissioned as one room system, not two separate details.
Prukpirom House Renovation: Privacy Around a Shared Void
A 29-year-old Bangkok home is reorganized around a double-height void, mature gardens and private rooms that keep a family connected without forcing constant togetherness.
Casa Ponta da Sela: A Timber House Stepping Down the Hillside
A prefabricated timber frame meets a steep Brazilian hillside through planted circulation, sheltered balconies and a pool deck overlooking the coast.
Casa Iriarte: A Narrow House Designed to Change from Within
A courtyard, connected rooms and replaceable building elements shape a narrow home in Las Palmas, where adaptability depends on everyday movement and privacy.
The Room Looks Clean. Where Does Contamination Collect?
A research-led classification of microbial contamination across interior uses, connecting contact surfaces, maintenance access and design details.
Pupunha House: Raising the Home to Make Room for the Garden
A raised volume in Manaus makes room for planting and shared domestic life, with furniture and an open stair shaping the ground floor.
The Filter Collects Dust. Does It Clean the Room?
What portable air cleaners can remove, why visible lint remains, and how room-level performance differs from a product claim.
A Showroom That Can Change: Furniture, Light and a Planted Façade in São Paulo
An open furniture showroom in São Paulo pairs flexible displays with planted glazing, making circulation, changing light and façade care part of its design.
Puembo House: A Courtyard Organizes Daily Life Across Two Levels
A courtyard and planted roof terraces organize movement, outdoor living and privacy in a two-level house in Puembo, Ecuador.
ABC Apartment: Making Room for Cooking and Company in 60 m²
A 60 m² apartment brings cooking and hosting together. ArchUp examines how a clear entrance, exposed ceiling and shared counter reorganize daily use.
Monobloc Chairs: How Stacking Changes a Shared Space
How the monobloc chair connects movable seating, compact storage and one-piece manufacturing, and where that efficiency meets the limits of repair.
Small Paintings, Large Wall: How Repetition Shapes Viewing
Paul Cox’s Diary series turns hundreds of small gouache paintings into a wall composition read through distance, sequence and attention.
