Mano a Mano 16/02/2024 Mano a Mano 16/02/2024

MyCityBari / Mario Cucinella Architects

Architecturally, the design by Mario Cucinella Architects is an innovative and sustainable pilot project that will have the ability to promote social interaction as an integral part of a wider area of the city that is currently undergoing transformation.

Mano a Mano 02/02/2024 Mano a Mano 02/02/2024

AIR.Office / ecoLogicStudio

AIRoffice integrates microalgae as an air purification tool within a working environment.

Mano a Mano 26/01/2024 Mano a Mano 26/01/2024

The Voxela Quarantine Cabin / Michael Salka

The Voxel is an autonomous, 12 square metre cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure clad in a parametric rainscreen, exemplifying an advanced ecological approach to architectural production.

Mano a Mano 29/12/2023 Mano a Mano 29/12/2023

Gando Primary School / Kéré Architecture

The Gando Primary School was built to expand the sparse network of schools in the province of Boulgou, in the east of Burkina Faso, and addressed two characteristic problems of many educational buildings in the area: poor lighting and ventilation.

Mano a Mano 22/12/2023 Mano a Mano 22/12/2023

St Pabu low carbon school / Guinée*Potin Architects

The project proposes a strong identity, reinterpreting in a contemporary and local way the vernacular aspects of the site and the characteristics of traditional architecture of the "Abers" in Brittany: distinct buildings, closed gables protecting from the south-west winds, double slope roofs, thatched roofs and large openings on the first floor evoke the idea of a hamlet, protective buildings.

Mano a Mano 15/12/2023 Mano a Mano 15/12/2023

Leyda House / Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects & Alfredo González

We were commissioned to design a weekend house, on top of a group of hills, within a large countryside lot.

We were asked to take special care, with an emphasis on austerity, a very low-budget was mandatory.

HAS Hinterland Architecture Studio 08/12/2023 HAS Hinterland Architecture Studio 08/12/2023

Treetop Walk Serralves / Carlos Castanheira e Clara Bastai, Arqtos

We search for new, never seen, never felt views and we long for, however brief, some panoramic view of Foz do Douro and the infinite Atlantic.

Mano a Mano 17/11/2023 Mano a Mano 17/11/2023

Lycée Schorge / Kéré Architecture

The school consists of nine modules arranged radially around a courtyard, protecting the central space from wind and dust. A series of steps creates a loosely defined amphitheatre, which accommodates informal gatherings as well as assemblies and celebrations for the school and wider community.

Mano a Mano 10/11/2023 Mano a Mano 10/11/2023

Extension of the Centre Beautour => "le Potager extraordinaire" / Guinée Potin

Using the « ERC » method (avoid, reduce, compensate), the project aims to limit heavy interventions in wetlands as much as possible, but also to undertake compensatory work, enabling the ecological enrichment of certain areas

Mano a Mano 20/10/2023 Mano a Mano 20/10/2023

Catalina House / Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects

Catalina House is a single family house with 85 m2, located at Punta de Lobos (Wolves' Point) A fishermen and surfers’ village in the south-central Chilean coast.

HAS Hinterland Architecture Studio 29/09/2023 HAS Hinterland Architecture Studio 29/09/2023

Quinta da Faísca – Tourist Accommodation / Carlos Castanheira e Clara Bastai, Arqtos

A concrete slab, connected to the ground and then supported by metal beams, created the veranda, above which, four small apartments were erected.
Everything in timber: wall structures which blend with ceilings, the windows, the external cladding.
Roof and flashings in zinc. Exquisite metal work.

Mano a Mano 22/09/2023 Mano a Mano 22/09/2023

Ortrivin Air Lab / ecoLogicStudio

ecoLogicStudio, architecture and design innovation firm specialised in biotechnology for the built environment, presents the Otrivin Air Lab, a living showroom and bio-design workshop conceived in collaboration with Otrivin which is open to the public at the Building Centre in London (UK) from June 15th to September 17th, 2022.

Mano a Mano 01/09/2023 Mano a Mano 01/09/2023

Museum & biodiversity research center / Guinée*Potin Architects

In a very present landscaped green setting, the project takes on a strong identity, reinterpretating a traditional technique in a contemporary and innovative way, by adopting a thatched skin, that entirely covers both walls and roof of the building.

Mano a Mano 25/08/2023 Mano a Mano 25/08/2023

Industrialized Building System / Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen Architects & The Andeshouse

Designed and executed by architect Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen with The Andeshouse design brand collaboration, this project aims to address the pressing issue of adequate housing lack in Chile and Latin America. It does so through an industrialized building system that is adaptable and efficient, providing a viable solution under the construction industry crisis after the pandemic.

Mano a Mano 11/08/2023 Mano a Mano 11/08/2023

Air Bubble air-purifying eco-machine / ecoLogicStudio

Following the successful Air Bubble biotechnological playground project built in Warsaw (Poland), ecoLogicStudio presents the Air Bubble air-purifying eco-machine, which has been installed in front of the Glasgow Science Centre within the COP26’s Green Zone area.

Mano a Mano 21/07/2023 Mano a Mano 21/07/2023

Barrett’s Grove / GROUPWORK

Barrett’s Grove is a Victorian street of terraced houses, the potential monotony of which has been broken down by its builders with a variety of decorative arts and crafts treatments to door and window surrounds.

Mano a Mano 14/07/2023 Mano a Mano 14/07/2023

Adpropeixe House / Carlos Castanheira Arquitectos

The house in Adpropeixe is a habitable viewing platform, elevated off the ground, but integrated and installed in the site.

The land, the area, the Reserve, have all been improved since the building of the house commenced, not only because of the house, but also because of the occupancy that it brought about, does now and will continue to bring about.

HAS Hinterland Architecture Studio 07/07/2023 HAS Hinterland Architecture Studio 07/07/2023

The Black and White Building (B&W) / Waugh Thistleton Architects

TOG unveils landmark mass-timber office building in central London

Built to define the future of work, The Black & White Building pushes the boundaries of sustainable architecture

Mano a Mano 30/06/2023 Mano a Mano 30/06/2023

Cornella Housing / Peris +Toral Arquitectes

PERIS + TORAL ARQUITECTES design the largest wooden-structured residential building Spain

Mano a Mano 02/06/2023 Mano a Mano 02/06/2023

Gleis 21 / Einszueins Architektur

The co-housing project was designed as a compact, zero-energy house („Niedrigstenergiehaus“) in a wood-hybrid construction and was built in a resources saving way.