Architecture with Emotion: Fouad Hanna and Kynda Chachaty in Conversation with Ajda Bračič
BIG SEE Interviews is a series of intimate, unfiltered conversations between architects, not just about buildings, but about how we think, live, and imagine our future environments. In this edition, architect Ajda Bračič
The Stitch Between Old and New
Existing walls, retained materials and contemporary additions meet in eight projects where the connection between different periods becomes part of the architecture. Working with an existing building requires more than deciding what
More Than a Place to Read
Libraries accommodate two apparently opposite conditions: sustained individual attention and the exchange of knowledge between people. Reading still requires quiet, light and a place to remain undisturbed, but contemporary libraries increasingly combine
The Architecture of Concentration and Exchange
University buildings can support both the concentration of individual study and the openness required for exchange, experimentation and shared work. Concentration can happen in open settings just as easily as behind closed doors,
Where Architecture Meets the Body in Motion
The quality of a sports facility depends on how clearly architecture supports action, orientation and shared use. Sports architecture begins with precise requirements. Clear dimensions, uninterrupted spans, durable surfaces, controlled daylight, safe circulation
Spaces That Hold a Community Together
Care, learning, work and everyday gathering shape eight projects designed around collective use. Community architecture begins with needs that private buildings do not have to address. It must be understandable to different
What Buildings Become Next
Warehouses, offices, shops and temporary housing are adapted to new programmes as cities, institutions and everyday needs change around them. A building’s original programme often expires before its structure does. Production moves
Making Room for Nature
Nature is not simply a backdrop to be admired from indoors. In these projects, it is the brief the architecture is built to answer. Across forests, mountains, wetlands and dry terrain, the
Colour with a Reason
In these ten interiors, colour is used to organise circulation, distinguish new insertions and alter the reading of existing space. Colour rarely enters an interior without context. It may respond to the history
Houses That Refuse the Obvious Form
Curved shells, bent plans, monumental walls and hovering planes turn domestic form into a test of how life might be organised differently. An unusual form is easy to notice, but much harder to
Places That Change the Pace
Landscape, privacy and carefully measured movement make the break from routine tangible. Leaving everyday life behind is not only a matter of distance. A convincing place to stay changes how the day
Architecture on Borrowed Time
Limited time sharpens the encounter: these cultural interventions turn parks, courtyards, forests and plazas into places to pause, enter and take part. Temporary architecture does not have time to become background. It