Gifu Office and House for All in Gifu, Japan, is a completed timber-based Net Zero Energy architectural project combining workplace, staff housing, and a community center for underprivileged children. Using CLT and passive strategies, it achieves ZEB performance while embedding social care, fostering inclusion, and creating an aesthetically pleasing, safe, flexible, low-carbon environment that can be replicated in other contexts.
The pavilion at the Zoobotanic garden of Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi explores the potential of Amazonian non-timber forest products through local knowledge, material experimentation, and research. It transforms açaí seeds into chipboard panel within a circular logic, incorporates ubuçu palm straw crafted by riverside communities, and uses cupiúba wood shaped into curved beams inspired by canoe-building. The project reflects on Amazonian materials and local production in collective construction.
Territory Park is a community-led regeneration project in Córrego do Feijão, Brazil, after the 2019 Brumadinho dam collapse. It reconnects people, nature and place through public spaces, ecological infrastructure and local economies co-created with residents. Parks, a market and a cultural center support collective life, while nature-based solutions restore environmental balance. More than recovery, it offers a replicable model for inclusive, sustainable and beautiful transformation.
Located in the heart of the Paraisópolis community, our 100% free socio-environmental hub transforms lives through high-quality English education and art. By empowering 800 students and local leaders, we turn local talent into global voices. From Basquiat-inspired murals to urban gardens, we bridge the gap between local identity and global opportunity
The Jardim Lapenna wayfinding project strengthens walkability and celebrates local identity with 42 signs showing maps, directions, and neighborhood stories. Part of a community-led Bairro Plan with Fundação Tide Setúbal and Galpão ZL, it integrates local knowledge into urban policy. Residents—especially women—co-created content, defined routes, and installed signs. Public spaces honor local leaders, enhancing belonging, safety, and daily walking.
This is an architectural education project for children aged 8 to 15, run by an NPO established through an industry-academia collaboration between a university research lab. and a local construction company. Our diverse and practical curriculum draws on expertise from various fields and industries, including architectural design, building structures, and environmental engineering. We also offer lessons on the materials and resources, which are conducted in locations such as forests and sawmills.
ENGO NO SHU is a cross-border initiative that reconnects forests and people through circular timber practices and co-creation. Spanning two adjacent regions in Japan with distinct forestry cultures, the project builds relationships that respect differences while enabling mutual learning and collaboration. By integrating local timber processing, design, and production within each region, it creates a circular system where both economic and cultural values are retained and regenerated locally.
Circularity Cabin is a 60 m² wooden house in Zushi, Japan, built from standard lumber joined only with bolts and screws — no adhesives, no pre-cutting. Facing demolition due to road widening, it turns constraint into prototype: every component can be dismantled, relocated, or reused. CFD-optimised high-side lights harness sea-land breezes for passive ventilation. Residents tune microclimate by rearranging furniture on a slatted floor — where material, environment, and life circulate as one.
Oichuy integrates governance diagnostics (43 municipalities, 17 states), data intelligence (5,274 municipalities, 78 variables), and a conservation-first platform (5,259 places, 7 biomes) to transform how Brazil governs sustainable tourism.
Pedalando Juntas (Cycling Together) offers free shared bicycles in São Paulo favelas, improving park access for women and children. Piloted in Peinha with 4,000 residents, partners included Metrópole Um pra Um, Tembici, Farah Services, Ameciclo, Aromeizero Institute, and Associação dos Moradores Jardim Santo Antônio. Awarded Prêmio Bicicleta Brasil. Key results: co-created bike-sharing system, donation campaign, and report, improving park access, public space use, and women’s empowerment.
