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Pfaall Foundation, Montreal, QC (2026)

06/22/2026

Diego Borrell, principal at TÁNAT, in conversation with Adrian Labaut, founder of PFAALL Magazine.

First image Expo Paisajes, Salón Acme, Galería OMR, Ciudad de México, 2020.

“When you work from the interior, you approach architecture as though it were a body. Knowing someone through their skin or clothing is very different from knowing them deeply from within.  I’m interested in that emotional purity, although I don’t consider myself religious, I value the mystical experience of space.”

Read the full conversation in our website.

Thank you for sharing your varied and personal thoughts with us
We look forward to seeing how your research takes shape and comes to matter in new, experimental ways.

All images © 2026 TÁNAT. All Rights Reserved.

© 2026 PFAALL FOUNDATION. All Rights Reserved.

06/18/2026

BC architects & studies, Woodstock, Belgium, 2019.

Structure: BAS bvba
Landscape architect: LAMA landscape
Masonry: AdVitampierre
Wood structure
Eart Construction
Foundations: Dimitri Servais
Demolition: Legros Démolition
Bespoke carpentry:

WOODSTOCK is a self-sufficient isolated private house in the Ardennes that hovers over the bank of a river. Built entirely in local stone, timber and earth, Woodstock will be constructed according to the vernacular techniques of the geographical area in collaboration with a diverse group of artisans and masons.

All materials will be retrieved, supplied and/or processed within a range of 30km from the project’s location.

The vaulted lithic volumes, erected a la chaux and insulated with h**p, are conceived of as cores for the living area, where technical rooms, bathrooms and extra bedrooms are located. The natural stone walls are founded on the schistous bedrock through layers of compacted gravel, to completely avoid the use of concrete.

The rammed earth walls, erected 3m above the ground level to account for the frequent inundations caused by the nearby river, will control the interior humidity of the living space.

Text source: BC architects & studies

Photos ©Tijs Vervecken

©2026 BC architects & studies. All Rights Reserved.

06/16/2026

Studio-Method, the Vertical Archive, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2023.

Client: Weelde Rotterdam/DeSturotterdam

The “Vertical Archive” is a pavilion built from waste wood, salvaged from demolition containers and meticulously stacked into a vertical containment structure. Once full, the structure becomes an archive of gathered materials, showcasing the rich patterns of urban bio-waste.

The project is located in what used to be Weelde, a post-industrial greenfield site occupied by a range of grassroots initiatives, including artist ateliers, a restaurant, and a community garden. Weelde embodied many of the bottom-up, collective, and community-oriented values antithetical to capitalist urban development, but was unfortunately evicted as the city moved to redevelop the area.

Given this context, the monument aims to challenge the ongoing processes of urban demolition and redevelopment, which result in material waste but also often lead to gentrification and social exclusion.
As an ode to the abundance of waste and the potential of reuse, it gestures towards another vision of urban development, one that would not seek to erase and rebuild but to remember, reconfigure, and regenerate what is already there.

Text source: Studio-Method

Photos ©Riccardo de Vecchiphoto

©2026 Studio-Method. All Rights Reserved.

06/11/2026

tamotsu ito architecture office, Strawberry Shed, 岐阜のいちご作業所・直売所・遊び場, Gifu, Japan, 2022..itoDesign: Tamotsu Ito + Genki Ueyama

Structure: Yoshihiro Fukushima /Graph Studio

Construction: Self-built + Separated Contract

A strawberry shop and packing place put together with playing fields for kids. With the extremely limited budget, our design process was to discover what are freely or cheaply available for the building materials as much as possible.

The main material is the client’s old vinyl house’s curved structural pipes. We have built this project as much DIY as possible, with the help of a carpenter friend.

text source: tamotsu ito architecture office

Photo ©Masaharu Okuda

©2026 tamotsu ito architecture office. All Rights Reserved.

06/08/2026

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Monuments, Milan, Italy, 1970.     The monument to the king of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II, on Piazza del Duomo, and the monument to Leonardo da Vinci, on Piazza della Scala, were wrapped with polypropylene fabric and red polypropylene rope, in the fall of 1970, in Milan, Italy.

The fabric had been sewn beforehand according to patterns allowing ample folds. The two wrapped monuments could be seen from the center of the Galleria, simultaneously, at each extremity of the XIX-century grand vaulted pedestrian shopping passageway. The monument to Vittorio Emanuele II projected in front of the late XIV-century-cathedral, the Duomo, while the monument to Leonardo da Vinci was situated in front of the XVIII-century La Scala theater and the Milan City Hall.

All expenses were borne by the artists.

The Wrapped Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II remained for two days, while the Wrapped Monument to Leonardo da Vinci remained for one week.  text source: christojeanneclaude.net
 Photo ©Ugo Mulas, Shunk-Kender.  ©2016 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation. All Rights Reserved

06/04/2026

Herzog & de Meuron, Arena do Morro, Mãe Luiza, Natal, Brazil.

Project: 2011-2012
Realization: 2012-2014

Partners: Jacques HerzogPierre de Meuron, Ascan Mergenthaler (Partner in Charge), Markus Widmer

Project Team: Tomislav Dushanov (Associate, Project Director), Mariana Vilela (Project Manager), Edyta Augustynowicz, Daniel Fernández Florez, Diogo Figueiredo, Melissa Haesun, ShinKai Strehlke (Digital Technologies)

Client: Ameropa Foundation, Centro Sócio Pastoral Nossa Senhora de Conceição

Mãe Luiza is not a typical “Favela” – its identity and character have been formed both by the unique natural setting and the creativity of the people of this strong community. Mãe Luiza is nestled between the protected natural zone of the dunes of Natal and the commercially developed oceanfront.

Our urban study identifies the missing and underdeveloped urban activities in the neighbourhood, traces available space within the densely built fabric, and distributes new activities within the areas potentially available for development. The proposal includes a spine (passarela) of new buildings and interventions that will form a sequence of public activities perpendicular to the main street of Mãe Luiza and extending all the way to the ocean.

The pioneering architectural project within this proposal is the gymnasium, containing a sports field with tiered seating for 420 people, multipurpose rooms for dance and education, a terrace with ocean views, as well as changing rooms and public restrooms.

Text source: Herzon & de Meuron

Photos ©Iwan Baan

©2026 Herzog & de Meuron. All Rights Reserved.

06/02/2026

Eletres Studio + Carrera de Arquitectura UCSG, Pabellón Horizonte, Campus de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2024.
studio ucsg

Authors: Danerix Cardenas () & Luis Albino Reyes ()

At the highest point of the city, a bird lands after a long flight; among hills and rocks, it seeks to observe the great metropolis in awe… A pavilion that invites contemplation and discovery from within, framing unique views and spaces that can only be appreciated from great heights. A place to pause and delight in the urban landscape, a unique formal element where light, structure, and geometry merge: “A temporary space for prolonged memory.”  
The 4.5-meter-high pavilion is organized using underground anchoring systems and constructed primarily of large-section circular metal tubes, joined by a lightweight, translucent, open-structure roof whose geometry is based on a catenary. The overall configuration of the pavilion is a modular design composed of ten M-shaped support units, fixed to ground anchors and metal angles at the top to join the edges and maintain the roof. To ensure the integrity of the pavilion, a circular profile extends horizontally, supporting all the elements. 
Text source: Divisare

Photos © Eletres Studio, Emily Chérrez, Marco Pocomucha, Luis Albino Reyes

©2026 Eletres Studio. All Rights Reserved.

05/30/2026

After Comfort, Kleine Stadt Farm, Vienna, Austria, 2025, Vienna University of Technology.

Research Associate:

tuwien

A week-long design-build workshop led by Jakob Sellaoui and Valentin Burtscher, involving 20 participating students, took place on the grounds of the Kleine Stadtfarm (Small City Farm) in Vienna, a community-run urban agricultural site.

Building on Daniel Barber’s text After Comfort, the students analyzed thermal comfort from various perspectives. How does it influence our body awareness and well-being? How much discomfort can we tolerate in our homes, offices, schools, and institutions? Comfort is not only a matter of well-being, but also of resource utilization.

The students constructed a sauna from repurposed materials. The structure was made of wood, with hay bales serving as natural insulation. The centerpiece was a self-built sauna stove that heated stones directly in the fire. In the winter cold and the intense heat of the sauna, the participants rediscovered their physical limits and questioned their notions of comfort.

The result was not only a place for collective sweating, but also a realization: discomfort is not the enemy of architecture, but rather a tool for rethinking spaces.

Participating students: Charlotte Bardenz, Finn Blindow, Chang Dang, Martin Dobmeier, Jacques Ernzer, Charlotte Eybl, Elisa Geiser, Pauline Guéry, Eugen Halbhuber, Victoria Hofböck, Vanessa Jäger, Benjamin Kislich, Martin Kohlbauer, Karolína Kolencíková, Ana-Elisa Kresitschnig, Magdalena Maurer, Ina Pfeuffer, Benedikt Schauerte, Marlies Weidinger, Julius Wolf

Photos © Gili Merin

©2026 Studio Jakob Sellaoui, Vienna University of Technology. All Rights Reserved.

05/29/2026

TAKK, Vitra Vertical Sauna, Weil am Rhein, Germany, 2024.

Prototype for an Outdoor Sauna

Architects: TAKK, Mireia Luzárraga + Alejandro Muiño  Collaborators: Roger Monfort, Berta Ribaudí, Julia Fraolini  Client: Vitra Design Museum
 
Photos © José Hevia

©2026 TAKK. All Rights Reserved.

05/28/2026

TANAT | PEMO | CARLOS GARCÍA NORIEGA, CASA ÍNSULA | Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, 2026.

Arquitectura: TANAT | PEMO | CARLOS GARCÍA NORIEGA:
Diego Rivero Borrell
Daniel Pereira
Carlos García Noriega
Mariana Estrada

DRY CAUSTIC

Mérida knows how to consume itself, especially if we look away for a while.
Sometimes there is a desire for this place to remain like this. Without windows, without furniture, ready to take another course, a less domestic one, where the rain may finally flood it, plants silently pierce through the floor until they claim the walls, and, within a few years or half a lifetime, birds begin to cohabit in shifts with a family of bats, until the falling drops carve the limestone and connect with the underground water.

Does a house end when it is inhabited or when it is named? For now, this space keeps other becomings open: a ruin, an observatory, a microcosm, a cenote, a landscape enclosed by walls of concrete that perspire with the desires of a jungle trapped within the city.

When is architecture ever truly finished?
The unfinished is also possibility.

Text provided by the TANAT, and translated from Spanish.

©2026 TANAT | PEMO | CARLOS GARCÍA NORIEGA. All Rights Reserved.

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