The construction sector significantly impacts global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for around 40% of total energy use and 36% of CO2 emissions. With the rapid pace of…
Listening to the spaces around us Architecture has always been a conversation—yet most of us have never learned to listen. From the angle of morning light to the path between…
Climate change is one of the most critical challenges the world faces today, bringing sudden and drastic environmental shifts that directly impact ecosystems, cities, and livelihoods. And yet when I…
A building that lives and breathes. What better way to describe a space that has a symbiotic relationship with nature? Housing a variety of plants that are not native to…
As urbanisation continues to intensify on a global scale, dense urban areas face a range of environmental challenges, such as urban heat islands, deteriorating air quality, and reduced access to…
Architects, more often than not, proactively claim that they view and experience spaces and buildings around them differently; something a layman to the field might not be able to observe…
Manual of Tropical Housing and Building was first published in 1975, when much of the architectural world was still largely influenced by universal modernist principles that were often applied similarly…
Climate as a Design Imperative Architecture is always influenced by climatic conditions, but in very few regions is this correlation as straightforward and uncompromising as in the hot-arid areas of…
One of the most fascinating things about planet Earth is the variety of lands and environments it provides to humans for habitation and, in return, the variety of responses humans…
Purpose of this Article This article proposes Osmotic Architecture as a climate-responsive framework for rethinking human comfort in buildings. Drawing from the biological principles of endosmosis and exosmosis, it argues…
In many homes, the kitchen is not just a room where food is prepared. It is where the day begins and often where it ends. Conversations happen while cutting vegetables,…
Aerodynamics as a design philosophyIn rapidly expanding cities, buildings are no longer static objects placed on land. They stand within invisible forces such as wind, pressure, heat and movement that…