Articles by Valeria Silva

A residential house has been reconstructed in the Ribiškės Landscape Reserve belonging to the Pavilnys Regional Park.

House Paap, located on the edge of the beautiful Kluisbos in Huizingen (Belgium), concerns the necessary total renovation and extension of a detached single-family house with an outspoken sixties atmosphere.

Located in the Macharius quarter, an area in the center of Ghent (Belgium) where the layers of the city’s history are most apparent, JJ House, a 19th-century terraced house, neighbors St Bavo’s Abbey and the former city slaughterhouse.

The two-story office extension is located in the backyard of a turn-of-the-century building near the Isar River in the Au district of Munich. The continuing demand for new space in Munich is increasing the pressure on existing buildings in particular. The potential for densification, by means of roof extensions and stories, is either already almost exhausted or limited by the authorities. In the search for further densification, the basement floors are increasingly coming into focus. In London, this trend has been evident for decades.

The global pandemic of physical inactivity urges us to rebuild streetscapes as places for sports and play. Beyond the typical competitive sports in fenced ‘court’ settings there is vast potential to make physical movement an integrated part of the daily environments in which citizens live, work and learn.