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Pfaall Foundation, Montreal, QC (2026)

10/16/2026

Samira Rathod Design Atelier, The Container, Kochi Muziris Biennale, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India, 2023.

Samira Rathod
Kochi-Muziris Biennale

In spite of colossal demolition and the debris it creates, building activity continues to remain indispensable. Architectural thinking must evolve around sustainability, recycling materials and resources.
The pavilion is a container of hope. It is built on dual narratives – one of the debris from ruthless demolition, and another of the poetics of construction – an honest admission of materials and methods of making buildings which often remain hidden under its skin, unknown.
The building unfolds as a large space under a singular roof that touches the ground, inspired from the many roofs of Kochi.

This temporary structure treads lightly, as it stands without any concrete footings, and may be dismantled to retrieve all of its material that may be reused or re-assembled again elsewhere. It is this material and method, we want to celebrate, and bring forth the pain, risk and challenges that are faced in the manifestation of an architecture, an outcome we deem beautiful.

Materials:
1. Construction debris from nearby sites
2. Waste granite from quarries
3. Coir
4. Fishing nets
5. Geogrid
6. Brick bat
7. Cement
8. Wire mesh
9. Bamboo

Structural design: Sushil Singh of sushil singh

Text source: Samira Rathod Design Atelier

Photos ©Sridhar Balasubramaniam, Niveditaa Gupta

©2026 Samira Rathod Design Atelier. All Rights Reserved.

10/15/2026

Bangkok Project Studio, Surin, Thailand, 2020.

The lives of humans and elephants are united in Thailand more than anywhere else in the world: here the elephant is a God, a symbol of power, an integral member of the family.

In the rural village of the ethnic Kui in the northeastern province of Surin, which has the highest number of domesticated elephants in the country, destructive land-use policies have reduced the forest to a wasteland where the Kui and the animals have suffered drought and famine, having to migrate to the cities for an often impossible redemption as pitiful tourist attractions.

Bangkok Project Studio’s Elephant Museum is part of Elephant World, a project launched by the government to return the Kui and elephants to their homeland and provide them with adequate living conditions, as well as to encourage knowledge of and respect for this animal and its ecosystem.
The museum is not only a cultural container but also a place to revive local economy: more than 4,800,000 bricks of local baked clay, traditionally handmade, were used in the construction to create jobs and income for the population.

The building emerges as a sculpture from the reddish landscape, with its curved walls at varying heights that tilt and criss-cross, marking access points and separating the external corridors from the exhibition galleries and adjacent spaces (library, seminar room, cafeteria).

Text source: Domus

Photos ©Spaceshift Studio

©2026 Bangkok Project Studio. All Rights Reserved.

09/28/2026

Versuchsgut Dornburg - KEE Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Constructive Design and Experimentation, Bauhaus University Weimar. Domäne Dornburg, Dornburg an der Saale, Thuringia, Germany.
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Architects:
Research and teaching project of Bauhaus University Weimar (Chair of Constructive Design and Experimentation (KEE): Tim Simon-Meyer, Luise Leon Elbern, Julius Tischler). Designed and built by students of Bauhaus University Weimar. Accompanying architectural practice: exnovum (Robert Anton and Marco Luca Reusch). Client/Owner: Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Thüringen mbH (LEG).

LEG Thüringen
exnovum
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

At Dornburg, a partially vacant historic agricultural estate composed of brick and timber-framed buildings is being transformed into a long-term laboratory for sustainable architectural practice. Rather than following a conventional masterplan, students, architects, researchers, and stakeholders collectively test incremental interventions that reactivate the existing structures over time.

The project treats architecture as an ongoing process rather than a finished object. Through hands-on construction, repair, reuse, and occupation, students learn directly from the realities of working with existing buildings, developing alternative and collaborative models of design, planning, and construction.

A former cowshed has become the project’s experimental hub—its Versuchsgut—serving simultaneously as a material laboratory, learning environment, and testing ground for new forms of spatial use. Existing structures, local resources, and reclaimed materials are used as the basis for gradual transformation.

Photos © Hannes Heitmüller
Hannes Heitmüller

©2026 KEE Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. All Rights Reserved.

09/12/2026

salazarsequeromedina in collaboration with Leggett & Cahuas, Sobremesas, Lima, Perú, 2024.

salazarsequeromedina
Leggett & Cahuas

XIII BIAU BIAU • Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo
BIAU Curatorial Team (Elizabeth Añaños, María Arquero, Gary Leggett, Luis Rodríguez, Emilio Ontiveros, Jose Luis Villanueva).

Sobremesas is a modular table around which you share food and have a conversation, centering the act of social and intellectual exchange at the site of food driven culture. It produces a space for communal gathering that is flexible and open for appropriation.

The intention is to shift from the traditional role of a pavilion, that has ephemeral life and use, to a more ambiguous and open-ended infrastructural element that can be repurposed after the Biennale.   During the Biennale, it was installed in the format of an infrastructural device to support central events of the XIII BIAU such as “Sobremesas: Community Resilience and Healthy Living” and “Workshop on Food Security”. Both events brought to light the key role of la Red de Ollas Comunes as a central community agent that creates a network of care within vulnerable settlements in Peru.   Text source: Leggett & Cahuas

Photos ©Enrique Castro Mendivil and Ivan Salinero Ivan Salinero

©2026 salazarsequeromedina & Leggett & Cahuas. All Rights Reserved.

08/08/2026

ZAV Architects, the Center for Handy Skills, Hormuz Island, Iran, 2021.  ZAV Architects 
Lead Architects:Mohamadreza Ghodousi, Fateme Rezaei Fakhr, Golnaz Bahrami, Hanieh Alizadeh.

Design Team: Sheila Ehsaei, Soroush Majidi, Payman Barkhordari, Azin Ravaei.

CHS is a two-story adaptable platform for educational initiatives aiming at hands-on learning of new practical skills, with a building spatially adaptable to future alterations and to the harsh climate.

The Gulf is associated with petroleum and conflicts surrounding it, and residents of Hormuz are sitting on mines of “black gold” aka oil, but are economically deprived. With the new wave of tourism, they are hopeful about opportunities for their community, however, they feel the need for a new kind of know-how to orient themselves.

This small project follows a bold global vision of sustainability. This center focuses on the empowerment of the Hormuz community for sustainable tourism. This is where education, planned in consonance with the city, takes place and educators are accommodated. I

t is a small vertical neighborhood of educational and accommodation spaces linked with paths and open spaces that empower Hormuzis. To be fully handy, the dimensions, positions, and relations of open and closed spaces can be modified to match unpredicted needs.   Text source: ZAV Architects  Photos ©Soroush Majidi, Payman Barkhordari.  ©2026 ZAV Architects. All Rights Reserved

08/05/2026

Sarquella Torres, Llar Lluèrnia. Festival del foc i de la llum, Olot, Girona, España, 2024.  SARQUELLA TORRES  Client: Lluèrnia. Festival del foc i de la llum Festival Lluèrnia
 Collaborators: .srico @l.villamil98  Llar is a microclimate in the cold nights of Olot.
Llar is a Miesian pillar that rises 15 meters and is stabilized by tension with large basalt rocks. The tensioned cables simultaneously support the insulating and reflective canopy to preserve the heat.

Llar is primitive architecture that preserves fire as the first huts did. It is both structure and envelope.
Llar is a “escó”: a space within a space, preserving thermal qualities and intimacy.

Llar is a phenomenological environment of heat, light, shadow, and crackling.
Llar is a chimney — cheminée – chemin de fumée — that unfolds, exposing its interior, where soot appears as a witness to the rising smoke.

Llar is a thermodynamic combustion process that heats by refraction and expels smoke by convection.
Llar marks the Plaça Major with a cross, a central meeting point where the boundaries between the domestic and urban worlds dissolve.  Text source: Sarquella Torres  Photos ©Joan Guillamat Joan Guillamat
 ©2026 Sarquella Torres. All Rights Reserved

08/03/2026

Kéré Architecture, Gando Primary School Library, Gando, Burkina Faso, 2010 -.  Kéré Architecture  Collaborators: Hevert-Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG, Community of Gando  The Gando Primary School Library is conceived as a space in which to complement the standardised school curriculum with traditional teachings between elders and children. Its geometry is formally distinct from the buildings on either side, its soft elliptical shape setting it apart in character from the orthogonal classrooms.   In addition to providing an educational infrastructure for children, the library is also intended as a resource centre for the village as a whole. The building forms a physical connection between the Gando Primary School and itsextension, sheltering the school yard from dusty eastern winds.   The building’s ceiling is made using locally crafted earthenware pots sawn in half, against which the concrete slab is cast. These circular openings allow natural light to filter down, creating a dynamic pattern on the ground. An overhanging corrugated metal roof sits above this ceiling, protecting it from sun and rain, with polycarbonate sheets positioned above the openings.   Text source: Kéré Architecture  Photos ©Kéré Architecture  ©2026 Kéré Architecture. All Rights Reserved

07/28/2026

IARA Architecture, FW JI·Huizhou Corridor, Fengwu Village, Yixian, Huangshan, China, 2023.   IARA Design and Research Office

Principals: Lubin Liu, Jingqiu Zhang
Team: Bin Dai, Yuxin Han, Wenrui Li, Qinming Luo

The project site is located in an old alleyway at the heart of the village—a vital passage for villagers’ daily life. The historic buildings lining the alley are said to have been constructed during the reign of Emperor Guangxu by Wang Jiarui, a deputy magistrate in waiting. In addition to serving as a daily thoroughfare, the alley functions as a kind of “outdoor living room” for the villagers.

The design of “Huizhou Corridor” begins with a deep respect for and preservation of the existing historic buildings. Only a few light column bases touch the ground, ensuring maximum protection of the existing environment. The small-section wood trusses also adapt well to the varying widths of the alley. All structural timber components are light enough to be carried by hand, eliminating the need for heavy construction machinery. Connections between materials are made with bolts or self-tapping screws, allowing for rapid on-site assembly. The use of new timber introduces a rhythm and aesthetic that echoes traditional wooden structures while infusing new energy into the historic village.
 Photos ©Huien Song  ©2026 IARA Architecture. All Rights Reserved.

07/21/2026

Alsar Atelier + Oscar Zamora + Yasmin Crespo, A Hydroponics Module, Bogotá, Colombia, September 2024. Area: 23.4m2.  

 
Clients:  Funded by:

The architectural design of the module emerged from the repurposing of an industrial shelving system—originally a consumerist material—into a solution that enables social construction: fast and reusable. The module is designed as a lightweight and semi-permanent structure, designed with the foresight of being dismantled if needed, allowing its components to return to their original use without generating waste or be relocated to another vacant lot, where the modular design can expand or shrink accordingly.  The project provides space for personal on-site cultivation, sustainable water use, and collective post-harvest activities, fostering inclusion and self-management. The design integrates with urban gardening workshops and houses the eighth Seed Bank of Chapinero from the José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden, preserving 43 native and heirloom species. 
Representation done by students at  Model by  Drawings by  Photos ©Mateo Pérez   ©2026 Alsar Atelier + Oscar Zamora + Yasmin Crespo. All Rights Reserved.

07/19/2026

JSa Arquitectura, Bosque Ferrocarrilero, Xalapa-Enríquez, México, 2023.  
 Design: JSa - Aisha Ballesteros, Benedikt Fahlbusch, Javier Sánchez

Project Team:
JSa - Juan Pedro López, Nallely Quiñones, Lilia Malfavón, Israel Silva, Alejandra de la Vega, Juan Pablo Acosta Lázaro Estudio - Jorge González .studio Álvarez Tello: Mariana Tello, Israel Álvarez .tello

The pavilions move across the topography like dunes beneath the forest canopy, accommodating four multipurpose halls, public restrooms, and administrative facilities.

As a collective, they are designed to host environmental and artistic workshops, sports classes, and community gatherings, fostering a sense of civic participation and ecological awareness that encourages an experience deeply rooted in the forest environment.

Their façade, composed of black-stained terracotta tiles, acts as a breathable skin, enabling continuous cross-ventilation throughout each pavilion and a degree of visual permeability that provides ideal privacy for the activities taking place within, without compromising passive oversight that helps deter potential illicit activities.

Project for  Landscape:  Lighting:  Engineering: Héctor Margain y Asociados,
 Photos ©Zaickz Moz  .moz

 ©2026 JSa Arquitectura. All Rights Reserved.

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