2027 Design for Freedom Competition
The 2027 Design for Freedom Competition asks architecture students to connect a building proposal with evidence about how its materials…
Materials
Hematite Concrete: Can Replacing Sand Make a Thinner Radiation Shield?
What research says about hematite replacing sand in radiation-shielding concrete, and why density, mix design and photon energy matter.
The Water Has Dried. Why Does a Ring Remain on the Stone?
Droplet physics separates the shape of a stain from its cause. A research-led proposal for testing stone sills through wetting, drying and maintenance.
The Furnace That Went Out: How Cold Sintering Makes Building Materials at Room Temperature
In a Penn State lab, a ceramic powder capsule presses under 350 MPa and heats to just 120°C — in…
How Cellular Materials Behave Under Compression
From Elasticity to Densification — A Material’s Journey Through Collapse and ReloadingImagine a piece of aluminum foam — a lightweight…
Using Conventional Timber in Match House to Create an Unexpected Form
Material Research as a Design PracticeYoung Projects’ work begins by questioning the conventional uses of materials and the ways they…
The Earring Clasp Principle: On Theft, Waste, and the Invisible Economy of Construction Sites
Ibrahim Fawakherji — ArchUpI was eight years old when I first understood that small things stolen at scale become large…
The Pavement That Breathes
How Rereading Thermal Concrete Stresses Rewrites the History of Urban Failure in the Contemporary Arab CityOn a hot summer morning,…
Brda House: A Modern A-Frame Defined by Light and Material
Visual Extension and Volumetric EffectThe contemporary version of the Brda house treats the natural landscape as an extension of the…
Cherokee House: Concrete, Glass, and Light in Spatial Design
Massing Composition and Arrival SequenceCherokee House consists of two primary cast-in-place concrete volumes, separated by a vertical circulation core fully…
The Silent Enemy in Concrete Columns
How Nuclear Monitoring Techniques Reveal the Radiation Hidden Within Building MaterialsGlossy black granite stands in the lobby of a luxury…
The Secret of Slow Wood: Why a Slow-Growing Tree Outperforms a Concrete Tower
How the “Slenderness Ratio” in Tree Stems Exposes a Structural Equation the Architecture Profession Overlooked in the Age of ConcreteEvery…
Sunken Drystone House Steps into Sifnos Coastal Hillside
A completed house on the Greek island of Sifnos sits inside a sequence of sunken stone walls that step down…
MFA House: Vertical Design and Local Materials
Open Spatial Dynamics and Visual ConnectivityThe architectural configuration of the residence is based on reducing the boundaries between interior and…
Hideout Leaf: Bamboo and Glass Open to Nature
Access Experience and Circulation PathThe project experience begins along a raised circulation path, where the floating walkway acts as a…
Studzienno 27: Timber Architecture and Natural Site
Site Belonging and Architectural CompositionThe Studzienno 27 project begins with a direct relationship to the surrounding nature, as the four…
A 12-Storey Mass-Timber Office Tower in Bellevue Will Become the Tallest of Its Kind in the US
A 55-metre-high office tower in Bellevue, Washington, will become the tallest mass-timber office building in the United States upon completion….
The Skin That Erodes in Silence
What Research on Skin Acidity Reveals About Our Failure to Design Care Environments for the ElderlyThere is a quiet paradox…
