Good morning from a house that doesn’t know how to be ordinary.
Every room is a flex. Onyx walls, infinity pool, private theater, gym that looks like a spa… this is what waking up in another league feels like.
Rather than conceptualize the porch as a superadded element attached to a house, this proposal rescales and foregrounds it to shape housing. The 'hyper-porch' moves beyond the porch’s accessory function to give a complex of buildings added social functionality.
📍United States
Project by: University of Arkansas Community Design Center
Details: https://t.co/aWNXuhBJ9b
🧱✨ What happens when a brick wall starts to transmit light?
This simple yet striking experiment by Glass Bricks explores how replacing selected clay bricks with solid glass blocks can completely transform a wall’s character.
As daylight passes through the glass elements, the traditionally heavy, opaque surface becomes luminous, creating shifting patterns of light and shadow throughout the day.
A small material intervention, but a powerful reminder of how light can redefine space.
🎥 Glass Bricks
#parametricarchitecture #materialinnovation #glassbrick #brickarchitecture #facadedesign
The giant kinetic umbrellas of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi transform one of the world’s largest religious courtyards into a climate-responsive architectural landscape. ☀️
Developed by SL Rasch GmbH in collaboration with SEFAR, the mosque’s 250 foldable PTFE canopies open like enormous mechanical flowers, shading pilgrims from extreme desert temperatures that can surpass 48°C during Hajj season.
Rising nearly 20 meters high, the structures reduce ambient temperatures by at least 8°C while preserving the spiritual atmosphere and visual identity of the Prophet’s Mosque. More than shading devices, they operate as a sophisticated environmental system where engineering, material innovation, and architecture work together at an urban scale.
🎥 GEZİYOM
#parametricarchitecture #engineering #kineticarchitecture #climateresponsive #medina