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© Doublespace Photography

• architects: Mohamed Amine Siana
• Location: Marrakesh, Morocco
• Project Year: 2023
• Photographs: Doublespace Photography
• Area: 750.0 m2

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Smart locker system by Gantner and Salto

How can the most structured elements in architecture give rise to unplanned forms of everyday life? "Spontaneous order" describes how structured systems can generate unplanned but coherent patterns of behavior. In urban discourse, it is often used to describe cities: frameworks of streets, plots, and buildings that are designed, while everyday life is not. Movement, encounters, routines, and informal uses emerge from simple spatial rules rather than explicit programming. In cities, this is visible in how sidewalks, stations, and thresholds operate. The structure is fixed, but the social order is fluid, setting conditions for behavior rather than defining it.

A similar logic can be observed in architectural micro-infrastructures such as locker systems. Like cities, lockers rely on structured frameworks that do not prescribe how life unfolds within them. A locker system is highly controlled in architectural terms: repetitive modules, strict grids, standardized dimensions, controlled access. Yet once in use, it produces spontaneous behaviors. People pause in corridors, return at irregular times, linger near locker zones, or briefly interact with others doing the same. What appears to be a strictly infrastructural storage system begins to generate informal social and spatial behavior.

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Workplace ergonomics have long been defined by stability: fixed postures, lumbar support, carefully calculated angles, and the relentless pursuit of the "correct" way to sit. Comfort was largely associated with maintaining a supported posture in chairs designed to reduce movement, align the spine, and sustain the body during long periods of sitting. Today, as contemporary workspaces become increasingly flexible and hybrid, questions are emerging around whether comfort is truly linked to static permanence, or rather to the possibility of movement itself.

Although ergonomic chairs have evolved significantly, many still operate within a "corrective" logic, managing discomfort through mechanisms and adjustments without fundamentally reconsidering the relationship between the body and motion. Recent research on sedentary behavior and active ergonomics has challenged the idea of stillness as the ideal condition for comfort. Instead, subtle posture transitions and continuous micro-movements are now understood as important contributors to circulation, musculoskeletal health, and overall wellbeing. In this context, contemporary ergonomics gradually begins shifting away from models based on containment toward approaches centered on adaptability, balance, and fluid movement.

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Courtesy of Trimo

Qbiss Notch, a new design edition developed by Pininfarina for Trimo's Qbiss façade system, has received the Red Dot Design Award. Based on Trimo's Qbiss façade technology, the project introduces vertically installed modular Qbiss panels, an alphabet of engraved Glyphs, and Notches with integrated lighting. Together, these elements allow designers to create distinctive façade compositions. Despite its visual flexibility, the system is designed around the efficiency and precision of prefabricated construction.

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RIVUS, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Image © Vivid Vision, Marta. Courtesy of UNStudio

A former industrial site along the Someș River in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is being transformed into a large-scale mixed-use district that reconnects the city with its waterfront. Designed by UNStudio in collaboration with Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners for developers IULIUS and Atterbury Europe, the RIVUS project combines urban regeneration, adaptive reuse, landscape design, and new public infrastructure within a single framework. Developed through a public participation process involving local residents, the proposal will transform the former Carbochim industrial platform into a river-oriented district organized around public space, mobility, and everyday urban activity.

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© Guillaume Porche

• architects: rhb architectes
• Location: Eckbolsheim, France
• Project Year: 2025
• Photographs: Guillaume Porche
• Area: 2986.0 m2

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PPAA, Mexico. Image Courtesy of Concéntrico

Concéntrico Festival 2026 will take place in Logroño, Spain, from June 18 to 23, transforming the city into a large-scale laboratory for architecture, design, and urban experimentation. Over six days, more than twenty interventions will be distributed across squares, vacant plots, streets, bridges, and emblematic spaces throughout the city, bringing together leading studios, researchers, and creators from the international scene, including Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, the raumlabor collective, Matilde Cassani, AAU Anastas, and Sahra Hersi, among others. This edition introduces a shift towards more collective, festive, and performative practices in public space, with a strong emphasis on sonic experiences and projects linked to accessibility, inclusion, and urban transformation. The programme is structured around three thematic axes: Identity and Fiction, Urban Ecologies, and Ephemeral Agents, ranging from architectures that understand public space as ritual or celebration to experimental approaches exploring materials, sound, and processes of reuse.

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Cortesía de Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, fotografía por Guillermo Zamora

• architects: Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
• Location: Paseo de Las Palmas 555, Lomas de Chapultepec, Miguel Hidalgo, 11000 Ciudad de México, D.F., Mexico
• Project Year: 1975
• Photography: Courtesy of Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos, fotografía por Guillermo Zamora
• Area: 5000.0 m2

Palmas 555 is a building that stands out in the urban landscape of Mexico City due to its special volumetry and innovative design. This corporate office building was designed and constructed by Juan Sordo Madaleno together with José Adolfo Wiechers and José Ignacio de Abiega as Associate Architects in 1975.

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© Paulina Ojeda

• architects: Atarraya Taller de Arquitectura
• architects: CAMPO
• architects: Comunidad de Santa Catarina Quiané
• architects: Frente por la Defensa de la Tierra
• architects: Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas de Múnich
• Location: Santa Catarina Quiané, México
• Project Year: 2020
• Photographs: Paulina Ojeda
• Area: 250.0 m2

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© Vinay Panjwani

• architects: INI Design Studio
• Location: Rajkot, India
• Project Year: 2024
• Photographs: Vinay Panjwani
• Area: 303514.0 m2

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© Siming Wu

• architects: Atelier OO
• Location: Luxefarm Phase II, Wanning City, Hainan Province, China
• Project Year: 2024
• Photographs: Siming Wu
• Photographs: Courtesy of Atelier OO
• Area: 300.0 m2

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