For the children's pavilion at the Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan, the Tezuka Architects studio imagined a dome made of wooden rafters. Between tradition and anticipation.
Designed by Pichler & Traupmann, this outdoor swimming pool is an architecture of plans and folds, integrating the pool and peripheral spaces in a continuous plastic and functional whole.
For some years now, architects and scientists are developing prototypes of dynamic facades that can change shape to respond to their context. A brief overview.