A Backyard Greenhouse That Moonlights as an Outdoor Living Room
Most backyard greenhouses ask you to choose a side. Either you’re hunched over seedlings in a cramped glass box, or you’re lounging on a deck…
Michael Jantzen
Open-Plan Offices Killed the Private Desk, and This Pod Brings It Back
Most office furniture solves privacy by sealing someone off completely: four walls and a door that shuts out everyone else, along with any sense of…
This House Makes You Sweat, Then Harvests That Energy to Power Itself
Most houses ask you to sit still. The Staircase House asks you to climb. This small, unbuilt concept wraps 180 wooden steps around a simple…
A Designer Just Freed Wood From Every Straight Line in This Home
The Curved Wood House concept reimagines what a home can look like when wood is freed from rigid, rectilinear frameworks. Designed for a high desert…
Someone Designed an Off-Grid Modular Home From a Farm Equipment Catalog
The search for affordable, sustainable housing tends to produce two kinds of proposals. The first involves entirely new materials, new manufacturing processes, and supply chains…
The Luxury Hotel Concept That Works Like a Food Truck for Wilderness
Luxury hotels have always had a location problem. The kinds of places that would make the most extraordinary backdrops, remote desert plains, rolling highland meadows,…
Funnels That Harvest Rain and Solar Power While Shading a Public Plaza
Water scarcity and urban heat are two separate crises that public infrastructure rarely addresses together. Most public spaces are designed primarily for social use, with…
Get Ready for the Pavilion That Was Designed by the Sun Itself
Architecture has always had to reckon with the sun. Buildings are oriented, shaded, and glazed in response to it, and solar panels are bolted onto…
Public Art Stands Still, This Steel House Lets You Slide It Apart
Public art installations in parks have a familiar relationship with the people passing through them. They hold a fixed position, a fixed meaning, and a…
What If the Internet Had a Building You Could Actually Walk Inside?
The internet has always been invisible. It moves information at a scale and speed the human mind can’t fully grasp, yet we access it through…
Art-ware Is the Dining Set That Never Has to Go in a Cabinet
Tableware has always had a storage problem. A complete set of cups, bowls, and cutlery takes up a cabinet’s worth of space for the privilege…
This Rotating Solar House Grows Fish and Plants Entirely on Its Own
Aquaponic gardening has been getting a lot of attention as a more sustainable way to grow food, especially in urban settings where arable land isn’t…