Visitors can reach this ‘floating’ teahouse – built out of charred timber – via a ladder, and from it view the surrounding galleries
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Ten ash trees are cut along the length of their trunks and set face to face. The branches are handwoven, to be grafted on to the tree stumps to form a canopy. The structure is supposed to allow the visitor to enter the interior space of the trees
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The interior surface of the transparent tree is continuous with the exterior of the cube form that surrounds it. Thus, the visitor can stand outside the cube and inhabit the same space as the tree’s interior
Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian
Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian
A freestanding wooden tower is designed to re-evaluate the concept of the ‘archive’. Its walls are made up of hundreds of shelves, holding thousands of second-hand books
Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian
Consists of inter-connected performance booths set around a spiral staircase. The staircase can operate as a corridor, as seating, or as a stage
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This proposal is modelled on dwellings directly behind the architects’ studio in Mumbai. It examines the unauthorised architecture that constitutes over half the city’s built landscape
Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian
Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian
Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian
Rural Studio is an architectural education programme dedicated to building affordable housing for poor rural communities in Alabama. This extendable shed is constructed entirely from forest thinnings, small constricted trees removed by forest managers
Photograph: V & A Images
Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Guardian
