Mixed Use
Mixed use architecture combines homes, offices, retail, and culture in single developments that keep cities alive around the clock. This category features projects where architects weave different programs into one coherent design. Plans, photos, and analysis show how mixing uses creates denser, friendlier, and more resilient neighborhoods.
Communitas – Resilient – Social Housing
Project Brief An earthquake with 6.4-magnitude hit Albania on 26 November 2019, with a death toll of 51 people, about 1,000 injured and...
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The Labyrinth
The Labyrinth is a conceptual mixed-use design that pushes architecture to an extreme, showing how the arrangement of boundaries and connections can reshape...
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Heritage Now – Cultural Center in the Public Garden
Within the diploma project, I have imagined a perfect scenario, in which both Guguță Cafe and Patria Cinema are brought back to the...
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La Sabana Vertical Mixed – Use Development
General How can we reverse the decline of an urban city district meanwhile reinterpreting vertical mixed-use and healthy densification? La Sabana Vertical Mixed-Use...
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Thinking Beyond the Station
A transit station can be far more than a place to catch a train; it can anchor the growth of a whole city....
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Non-Co Mixing High School
The Non-Co Mixing High School by Niyousha Zaribaf in Tehran, Iran, treats a single educational building as both shared and separate, serving students...
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INVASION
Invasion is a mixed-use development proposed above the E11 highway in Dubai, designed to stitch together a city fabric that the highway cut...
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Upside Down, Radiating Out
The project was made in the workshop called “Home Office” in the 2019 edition of the Master in Collective Housing led by Jacob...
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