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Passive Design is the strategy of using orientation, shading, thermal mass, daylight and natural ventilation to keep buildings comfortable with little mechanical heating or cooling. ArchEyes follows it in climate-responsive projects such as the Henri Quillé houses in Formentera, CADG’s workers’ center in Haikou, Nakshabid Architects’ Green Field Factory in Bangladesh and Sanjay Puri’s Prestige University in Indore, together with essays on facades, roofs and net-zero homes.
Half Solid House is a 175 square meter dwelling on a corner alley site in Vung Tau Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, where a layered louvre envelope mediates between tropical…
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Green Field Factory is a seven-story textile workplace in Rangpur, Bangladesh, where Nakshabid Architects reworks the industrial slab as a sequence of gardens, water courts, shaded circulation spaces, and collective…
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Haikou Workers’ Activity Center is a 57,411-square-meter cultural and sports complex in Haikou, China, organized as a porous, shaded public landscape. Its stepped steel structure, planted terraces, water systems, and…
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Luxury homes have long been linked with generous space, fine materials, and careful detailing. Today, many architects are giving equal weight to how a home responds to climate, light, landscape…
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The building’s architecture does more than just accentuate the structure’s aesthetics. It also shapes how occupants experience the building throughout, affecting light, temperature, airflow, and comfort. The facade influences these…
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Architecture has always involved more than the sum of its parts; whether made of concrete, steel, or timber, it is about the spaces where human life unfolds and the communities…
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Belize occupies an unusual position in the Caribbean basin. It is Central American by geography and Caribbean by temperament, English-speaking, governed under common law, and fronted by the largest barrier…
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Architecture has always been a negotiation with weather. Long before mechanical heating and cooling made it possible to ignore the sky, the roof was the primary instrument through which a…
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A beautiful net-zero home doesn’t need to broadcast its performance through bulky visual compromises anymore. The best examples in 2026 hide their complexity behind disciplined orientation, clean detailing, and carefully…
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Passive house owners often discover something surprising once they move in and settle into daily life: the building almost seems to take care of itself in a way that conventional…
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Prestige University in Indore consolidates administrative offices, library facilities, seminar halls, classrooms, an auditorium, and a cafeteria within a 30,843 m2 institutional block set inside a 32-acre campus. Rather than…
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Henri Quillé’s houses across Formentera constitute a disciplined family of low whitewashed dwellings that recalibrate vernacular forms to climate, terrain, and daily use. Aggregated rooms, shaded verandas, and introverted patios…
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V4 House is a rural residence in Nghi Loc that reframes northern Vietnamese domestic archetypes through a contemporary geometric order. An elliptical canopy organizes living around four cardinal stone walls…
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Ovidium House is a 400 m² summer residence on a Greek peninsula that comprises rooms, terraces, and columned perimeters into a legible coastal ensemble. A clear structural rhythm and a…
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