Ballet Mécanique apartment block has walls that unfold to form balconies and sunshades
Manuel Herz Architects has completed a housing block in Zurich, with dynamic facades that transform into balconies for its five apartments. More
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Sliding walls animate the facade of Fouad Samara Architects' Modulofts apartments
Fouad Samara Architects has completed a tower in Beirut, which features huge steel panels that can slide out from reconfigurable apartments and be stored outside the building. More
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Cabin on the Border is an off-grid shelter with walls that open on pulleys
A system of pulleys are used to raise and lower sections of the walls of this prefabricated cabin on the border between Turkey and Greece, allowing the holiday home to open up to the outdoors or be completely closed during bad weather. More
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DoepelStrijkers applies circular economy principles to Circl pavilion
Dutch studio DoepelStrijkers incorporated a variety of innovative sustainable concepts into this multipurpose space at the offices of a bank in Amsterdam. More
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Reconfigurable apartment allows residents to transform their living spaces
The next instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an experimental apartment by Swedish firm White Arkitekter, which can be reconfigured according to the needs of its residents. More
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Feldman Architecture incorporates garage-door windows into California home
Glazed garage doors surround this wood-clad residence by US firm Feldman Architecture in California's Sonoma Valley, an area that was recently devastated by wild fires. More
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Shigeru Ban's La Seine Musicale incorporates a wall of moving solar panels
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed a music complex near Paris, featuring an egg-shaped auditorium and a wall of solar panels that move to follow the path of the sun. More
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Baitasi House of the Future features moving walls controlled by a smart TV
Chinese studio Dot Architects has completed a futuristic home in a traditional Beijing hutong, featuring moveable furniture modules and an extension constructed using the WikiHouse open-source architecture platform. More
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Nishizawa Architects adds movable walls to multi-family home in southern VietnamÂ
Nishizawa Architects has replaced the facade and interior walls of this residence in Vietnam's An Giang province with moveable corrugated metal panels to create a "half-outdoors" dwelling for three families. More
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Amin Taha Architects reconfigures London home around lightwells and a spiral staircase
London studio Amin Taha Architects has updated a 1950s terraced house in the city's Bayswater neighbourhood, adding a basement level topped with a rugged concrete soffit and a lightwell set into a courtyard garden. More
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Vertically sliding walls open Bergmeisterwolf's Italian villa extension to the garden
Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has completed an extension to a house on the shores of Italy's Lake Garda, featuring glazed walls that disappear into the ground to open the living area up to the garden. More
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School children design and build green den with moving walls for Hull allotment
Architectural educationalists Matt+Fiona worked with school pupils in the city of Hull to design and build a classroom with pivoting walls on their allotment. More
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FHHH Friends arranges flexible rooms over split levels in slender Seoul house
A skylit stairwell ascends through the split levels of this tall and narrow house in Seoul to a roof terrace with separate entrances for people and cats. More
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Studiomama uses adaptable furniture to create what might be London’s smallest house
Studiomama has overhauled this tiny single-storey house in north London with adjustable plywood furniture including a fold-out bed, a standing desk and extendable dining benches with pink cushions. More
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Design Eight Five Two updates Hong Kong flat with sliding walls and space-saving furniture
Adjustable furniture and sliding walls maximise the limited space inside this Hong Kong apartment, which has been overhauled for a photographer and his pet cat. More
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Sliding polycarbonate panels open up facade of Catalonian house by H Arquitectes
Sliding polycarbonate screens are set in front of the windows covering the stepped facade of this Catalonian house by Spanish studio H Arquitectes. More
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London flat by The Klassnik Corporation centres around a cast concrete bath
A cast concrete bathtub, a walnut-lined office and translucent walls that move at the touch of a button all feature inside this renovated London apartment by The Klassnik Corporation. More
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10 gifs showing the best adjustable apartments from Dezeen's Pinterest boards
A copper-clad volume covered in hatches and a space with rotating walls feature in this roundup, which spotlights apartments with reconfigurable interiors from Dezeen's Pinterest boards. More
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Shutter-covered towers give bedrooms sea views at Lebanese housing complex
Bedrooms contained within towers at this housing complex on the Lebanese coast feature folding shutters and sliding glass walls that allow sea breezes to cool the interiors.
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Retractable garage-style doors open Amsterdam entrepreneur hub to the elements
Dutch studio BETA and Elisabeth Boersma of planB have transformed an old school in Amsterdam into a hub for entrepreneurs featuring full-height windows that can be retracted to open the entire facade. More
