Open architecture

In Qinhuangdao, China, Beijing-based firm OPEN Architecture has designed ‘UCCA Dune’, a museum whose undulating form sits submerged beneath the sand dunes, beside the Bohai...

Image 14 of 22 from gallery of Open House at Central Embassy / Klein Dytham architecture. Photograph by Ketsiree Wongwan

Architecture Design Basics - in this post looking at form and how it responds to conditions of function, purpose and context.

“الزراعة هي المهنة التي تجعل للإنسان جذورا في أرضه .. الزراعة هي الكنز الذي لا ينضب بل أنها الكنز الذي ينمو ويزيد ..”

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The HEX-SYS modular building system, designed by Open Architecture, is perfect for building temporary architecture.

Can a concrete structure in the sand protect its fragile coastal environment? Open Architecture partners Li Hu and Huang Wenjing say yes. Elsewhere in the popular resort area of Qinhuangdao, China, developers have leveled dunes to construct high-rises. But the 10,000-square-foot UCCA Dune Art Museum, an offshoot of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, practically disappears into the drift—and will ultimately save the dune.

The more complex, intriguing and seemingly impossible a project is, the more it piques the interest of Chilean practice Elemental. Ever keen to learn, adapt and evolve, its team has produced work that not only questions architecture’s wider social responsibility, but also comes up with some great answers – a...

Image 2 of 20 from gallery of UCCA Dune Art Museum / OPEN Architecture. Photograph by Qingshan Wu

Image 18 of 25 from gallery of Gehua Youth and Cultural Center / Open Architecture. Plan