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The dining area connects to an expansive viewing terrace.

The middle volume is the largest and most transparent of the three volumes.

Depending on how the curtain in the living space is configured, it can shade the windows, hide the desk, fully enclose the seating area, and more. “Fabric allows for more flexibility, so a curtain wall does things that a normal wall can’t do,” Kyle points out.

Designed by José Guedes Cruz, César Marques, and Marco Marinho of the Portugal-based firm Guedes Cruz Architects, The Wall House is laid out in an open-box plan, and is fitted with plenty of glass windows to enhance the synergy between its interior and exterior spaces.

Columbus, Indiana, resident Nick Slabaugh tasked Chicago architect Grant Gibson with creating a low-cost home on a small lot near the city’s downtown. Its design references local architectural landmarks. Gibson says the building’s “low profile with a bulging roof element” recalls Eero Saarinen’s Irwin Union Bank, while the half-buried volume “is similar to Gunnar Birkerts’s Lincoln Elementary School.”

The kitchen floor is asphalt, part of the indoor/outdor functionality Gehry strove for in the design.

Turenscape’s Haikou Jiangdong Coastal Park, in the Chinese island province of Hainan, replaced an existing concrete sea wall with a “breathing” porous landscape using terraces and bioswales to absorb water.

Atlanta’s Cook Park absorbs stormwater that once inundated the surrounding community, combining flood protection with a recreational space.

At night, full-height glazing makes the cabin glows from within.