Our project aims to establish a welcoming space where diverse social groups—local residents, children, internally displaced persons (IDPs), veterans, and their families—can meet, collaborate, and realize their potential. By fostering community bonds and shared purpose, this initiative strives to create an environment that supports social integration, empowerment, and resilience.
The What a Hut mobile sauna is a small architectural intervention that activates public space and strengthens community life. Built from locally sourced spruce and produced in the Czech Republic, the travelling sauna brings wellbeing and social interaction to towns, villages and various pop-up events. By temporarily placing the sauna in different locations, municipalities and residents can test shared infrastructure before investing in permanent solutions.
CultSEN reconnects institutionalised seniors with the cultural life of Iași, Romania, transforming care centres into spaces of creativity and belonging. Through theatre visits, museum trips, cinema screenings and participatory art workshops, older adults become active contributors to cultural life. By combining mobility, creative ageing and intergenerational dialogue, the project reduces isolation and restores dignity, wellbeing and community connection for elderly people.
A smart shelter that transforms wartime safety into a space for learning and collaboration. Located at one of Ukraine’s leading universities, it provides a flexible open-plan environment for classes, workshops, meetings and recreation, allowing students to continue studying during air raids. Designed to meet civilian protection standards, it accommodates up to 500 people and includes a ventilation system providing protection for up to 72 hours. Combines safety, ergonomics, and adaptable design.
Construction of an innovative 6-story office building with a garden-level parking area, designed using wood (post and beam structure and wood facade), with high energy ambitions (low-carbon, positive energy building) and focused on user well-being.
Bauwende Sachsen conceives itself as a platform for an interdisciplinary network of stakeholders who not only advocate for the sustainable transformation of the regional construction sector but also want to actively shape it. As a networking platform it offers various digital and real-life spaces for low-threshold learning about construction-related topics as well as to engage in dialogue and take action.
The Climate Refuge is a free indoor plaza inside the Círculo de Bellas Artes (CBA), a historic cultural institution in Madrid committed to art, civic life, and social innovation. Each summer, since 2024, its iconic ballroom becomes a cool sanctuary open to all during the city's extreme heat, where culture, nature, and community meet to reimagine our relationship with the planet. It has welcomed over 100,000 visitors and proven that art and heritage are powerful engines of climate action.
« The Great Adventure of Sand Grains » is a collective and collaborative game designed by Studio Idaë for The Mission Val de Loire.
Created in collaboration with the community, the Canabrava Neighborhood Plan transforms a territory marked by vulnerabilities into a more sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful place in Salvador. It combines housing improvements, green spaces, environmental restoration and social inclusion, creating shared spaces that foster the economy, well-being and belonging. It includes a socio-environmental park and some implemented actions, such as upgrading over 500 homes and slope stabilisation works.
ADAPTER transforms vacant offices and industrial buildings into temporary housing. Using the reusable interior system endo, made of prefabricated wooden modules, empty spaces can be converted into high-quality homes within days and removed without traces. In 2024, the pilot project “Pionierwohnen im NQ” in the historic Neckarspinnerei in Wendlingen provided temporary housing for nine residents and showed how existing buildings can quickly become part of the housing solution.
