Oasis Student Housing: Green Glass, Cross-Ventilation and Shared Life in Nice
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.
Projects
Architectural Projects
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.
Surf Road House: Turning Coastal Elevation Into an Arrival Sequence
Coughlin Scheel Architects expands a Fire Island house that survived Hurricane Sandy, using elevation, cedar screens and layered circulation as design tools.
The Yard Theatre: Making a Temporary Venue Permanent Without Erasing Its Past
Takero Shimazaki Architects expands The Yard Theatre through retained brickwork, a curved 224-seat auditorium and visibly reused materials.
Runway Green: An Outdoor School Built Around the Landscape
SCAPE organises a seven-acre former-airport site as a learning landscape of ecological study, cultivation and outdoor classrooms.
Piedra Bay House: Thresholds Between Shade, Pool and Coast
Piedra Bay House uses a protected entrance, planted thresholds and a pool court to organise privacy, shade and movement in an arid Caribbean setting.
Nara Prison Hotel: Changing the Rooms, Keeping the Radial Plan
At HOSHINOYA Nara Prison, connected cells become suites while radial wings, circulation and brickwork remain legible. A study of selective architectural adaptation.
Sfumato Pavilion: A Reflective Skin, an Unchanged Boundary
At ITESO in Guadalajara, a mirrored acrylic skin changes how an existing cube is seen, while its frame, entrance and open-air chamber remain tangible.
HP’s Vancouver Research Building: A Folded Roof for Light and Services
A research building in a former quarry connects its folded timber roof to daylight, service coordination and a carefully qualified record of wood sourcing.
Laois House: Deep Brick Edges Between Family Life and the Trees
A family house in County Laois uses recessed glazing, a service core and projecting garden walls to balance shared life, privacy and the wooded landscape.
Lion Green Road: Housing Shaped Around Shared Ground
Five brick-clad blocks accommodate 157 homes at Lion Green Road. A reading of the paths, planted edges and shared ground that connect the development.
CCLM 280: A Weekend House with Two Rhythms of Use
A weekend house separates everyday occupation from guest stays while its stair and covered edges keep the garden in view.
The Lens: Daylight Without an Open View from the Street
The Lens in Montreal separates daylight, outlook and access through curved glass bricks, an open garden elevation and a separate approach to a flexible workspace.
Concrete Flakes: A Lasting Frame for a Changing Workplace
Concrete Flakes in Hanoi separates a lasting concrete structure, a patterned metal screen and shared workplace facilities to accommodate everyday use and later change.
Linden House: A Corridor Becomes a Gathering Room
Schemata Architects turns the connection between two existing buildings into a shared room at Linden House, within an Irish forest regeneration project.
East County Library: Public Space Beyond Borrowing Books
East County Library in Gresham connects public transport, community participation and exposed timber with a wider range of everyday public uses.
Nakamura Civic Complex: Keeping the Schoolyard Public
Four public services share a former school site in Nagoya. ArchUp examines the square, sheltered circulation and the difference between shared space and shared access.
House of Cards: Four Timber Volumes on an Inherited Foundation
In Koksijde, an existing foundation and height limit shape four prefabricated timber volumes. Construction photographs reveal the decisions behind the form.
Sable House: When the Garden Becomes a Route
A reading of Sable House through sheltered garden routes, everyday routines and the difference between recovered bricks and retaining a building.
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….
