Slow architecture

This article is part of an installment of essays and examples illuminating the essence of good architecture, which comprises of empathy, experience and beauty. The exploration of Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths in Vals, Switzerland, represents architecture as an extraordinary sensory experience.

an outdoor cafe and courtyard space serves an adjacent athletic field during the 2014 world horticultural expo in tsingdao.

The tea pavilion located on the bank of the dam in Český Těšín was created as an intervention in public space as part of the Mood for Wood international workshop. When thinking about the concept, we start from the traditional Japanese architecture of tea houses rendered with contemporary means of expression. We work with a simple design principle of connecting wooden elements that create a complex static structure.

The Divine House is a simple but meticulously built wooden structure with a gable roof and deep overhangs. It overlooks the McKenzie River in Oregon.

Wallpaper* met with John Pawson during the construction of Casa delle Bottere in Veneto, northern Italy, in 2010. The house, that completed in 2014, was, for both designer and client, an exercise in slow architecture, recognising the time, thought and space required for the birthing of a masterpiece of minimalism.

The Slow House https://www.pinterest.com/AnkAdesign/just-models/

Architecture and Design Magazine for the 21st Century. Organizer of the Annual Skyscraper Architectural Competition.

Architecture studio Zeller & Moye has collaborated with artist Katie Paterson to create a massive sculpture consisting of glass cylinders for Apple Park.

Okkio means “eye” in Italian. Okkio considers himself as an observer, in the nowness, in between what is to happen and what has been gone.