Yuan Tian, a Los Angeles–based landscape designer at RIOS, is at the forefront of this shift—deploying speculative storytelling, digital tools, and ecological systems thinking to reframe how we engage with crisis, memory, and constructed truth.
Project name
Black Summer Conspiracy: Yuan Tian’s Landscape Fiction in the Age of Climate Uncertainty
Architecture firm
Yuan Tian Studio
Location
Conceptual / Australia (Narrative Setting)
Tools used
Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Arc GIS Pro, Google Earth Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Principal architect
Yuan Tian, Jing Qin, Allison Nkwocha
Status
Completed (film-based project)
Typology
Experimental › Data Visulization / Design Research / Media Fiction / Landscape Narrative
NAHALA was born from the intention of creating an architecture that not only inhabits a place, but also honors it, listens to it, and transforms it into a pure experience.
Architecture firm
Veliz Arquitecto
Location
USA, Colombia, Mexico, Maldivas, Bahama
Tools used
SketchUp, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Design team
Jorge Luis Veliz Quintana
Visualization
Veliz Arquitecto
Typology
Residential › Villa
Delivered by Prime Edition and designed by acclaimed local studio Pandolfini Architects, the project is a collection of five whole-floor residences and one standalone home, immersed in lush garden settings curated by Myles Baldwin.
Architecture firm
Pandolfini Architects
Location
17 Avoca St, South Yarra VIC 3141, Australia
Collaborators
Myles Baldwin Design
Visualization
CUUB Studio
Typology
Residential Architecture
Set within the lush coastal landscape of Nayarit, Casa Chacala is guided by a fundamental premise: to follow the lead of nature. From the first site visits, Estudio AMA recognized that the design needed to respond sensitively to its context
Project name
Casa Chacala
Architecture firm
Estudio AMA
Location
Chacala, Nayarit, Mexico
Design team
Andrés Muñoz, Marisol Flores, Tannia Tafolla, Ricardo Tovar, Emmanuel Crisanto, Andrea Flores, Fernanda Cebrián
Collaborators
Marisol Flores, Emmanuel Crisanto, David Flores, Fernando Robles
Visualization
Formatelier
Status
Under Construccion
Typology
Residential › House
Bunker V37 is a project that presents a transformation of old military bunkers built on the former territory of Czechoslovakia before WWII. Around 10 000 fortresses of the so called “Řopík” bunkers were built in a network along the borders of Czechoslovakia. Today most of them are unused and run down.
Project name
Bunker V37 transformation
Architecture firm
Lasovsky Johansson Architects
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Hanna Johansson, Juráš Lasovský
Design team
Juráš Lasovský, Hanna Johansson, Sang Yeun Lee
Collaborators
STUDIO-SANG; This project was supported by the Danish Arts Foundation
Visualization
STUDIO-SANG
Typology
Residential › Cabin
In response to the growing inclination to escape the congestion of cities and the rising desire for a calmer, nature-connected lifestyle, our clients, a young couple, decided to purchase a plot of land in the verdant Babolkenar region.
Architecture firm
OR-Studio
Location
Yekshub Village, Babolkenar, Babol, Mazandaran Province, Iran
Principal architect
Omid Rahmani
Collaborators
Zahra Pahlevan
Visualization
Omid Rahmani
Client
Amir Abbas Rashvand
Status
Under Construction
Typology
Residential › House
We stayed in villas of various sizes with pitched roofs, nestled in the forest at a distance from each other. The tranquility of the forest at night, the sound of animals and the chirping of birds during the day, along with communal spaces, gatherings, a café, and a restaurant, provided a serene atmosphere.
Project name
Chaldareh Rectrational Haven
Architecture firm
Mahdiye Amiri
Location
Chaldare, Tonekabon, Iran
Tools used
Midjourney AI, Adobe photoshop
Principal architect
Mahdiye Amiri
Design team
Mahdiye Amiri
Collaborators
Visualization: Mahdiye Amiri
Typology
Hospitality › Recreational Resort
Led by Aedas Global Design Principal Kevin Wang, the CGDG Xinjiang Beautiful China Resort Kuitun Holiday Inn Hotel Project elevates the travel experience into a three-dimensional symphony of city, nature, and culture, setting a new benchmark for Xinjiang's cultural tourism industry.
Project name
CGDG Xinjiang Beautiful China Resort Kuitun Holiday Inn Hotel Project
Principal architect
Kevin Wang, Global Design Principal
Client
China Green Development Investment Group Co., Ltd (CGDG)
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel
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