this balcony, which is a world

By Baran

AGRO-HIVE: Scaling Sustainable Privacy Frameworks in the Urban Fabric

In contemporary urban design, navigating the boundary between public engagement and domestic intimacy requires fresh typological thinking. AGRO-HIVE addresses this challenge through an architectural ecosystem that fuses urban agriculture with micro-spatial privacy thresholds. Crowned by a lightweight, transparent barrel-vault rooftop structure, the project establishes a vibrant, productive green interface integrated with modular planting zones and passive climate-control workflows.

The project's defining feature lies in how it transforms environmental maintenance into a social catalyst. Vertical pergolas installed between balconies provide a robust framework for residential vertical farming. Crucially, the resulting living vegetative layer acts as the primary visual privacy screen between neighboring apartments. Because any neglect in cultivation directly diminishes an occupant's personal privacy, plant maintenance naturally evolves into an inevitable, self-incentivizing, and deeply sustainable daily ritual for the community.

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Balcony — the in-between space

By Beyza

Balcony — the in-between space where flowers bloom, where the wind strikes, where the sun stops by, where a person sits, where a cat purrs, where a bird sings, where shadows fall, where laundry dries, where children play, where rain gathers, where coffee cools, where an ant climbs— -BEYZA

Hobby to Business

By Yusuf ADEM

Balat / Fatih We examine how a balcony has changed over the years: its purpose, size, and definition. The current definition of a balcony, although more accurately described as having a sloping roof, refers to a structure used like a greenhouse. Based on the abundance of trees and potted plants, we can say that the balcony is used for commercial purposes. (current condition of the balcony) (model of the balcony) If we examine it more closely, we see that this was originally an open terrace balcony, but it was later enclosed. With this enclosure, the homeowner gained extra storage space for their plants and could also use their existing balcony more freely. The balcony was initially used for hobby plant cultivation, but over the years, both the existing plants grew and new plant spec...

By Baha

The project focuses on examining the proposals generated by balcony modifications implemented on four residential buildings connected at ground level through a passageway, and the ways in which these interventions respond to recurring issues within the housing question. When the notion of the balcony is approached through Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive method of reading, it emerges as a device that destabilizes binary oppositions such as public/private, interior/exterior, boundary/center, and controlled/contingent. In doing so, it produces indeterminate zones that blur these distinctions and function as the building’s very pharmakon. Such ambiguity constitutes a latent richness that necessitates an architecture of contingency and serves as a source of spatial adaptability. I developed the design strategy throught deconstructive reading of rem koolhaas's definition of balconies: "A laboratory where, on the frontier between inside and outside, public and private, sometimes e...

LIMINAL BEYOND HUMAN

By Ceren

Spaces do not belong solely to humans. do not exist solely for human purposes. yet, a dignified life is the right of all. and design is what makes this possible. As like Aronis says; many people use their porches, windows, balconies to get a sense of others, to be part of a larger scene, to observe social life, and reflect on their own or to enjoy a place that implies connectivity without clear obligation to connect. In this project, I embrace these qualities of the balcony not merely as a physical extension of the dwelling, but as a liminal space that mediates between the private and the collective, enabling diverse forms of coexistence, observation, and interaction among human and non-human inhabitants alike. The project begins with a condition of liminality already embedded within its site. Positioned between contrasting urban realities, the block occupies a threshold rather than a singular identity. One edge faces a busy commercial street and a metr...

Living In-Between

By Beyza

In my view, balconies are systems that allow the protected domestic life inside our homes to connect with the outside. They are not merely extensions opening to the outside, but shared living spaces where daily life, nature, wind, rain, sun insects, birds, and the living and non-living mingle. In this project, I designed the balcony not as a monotonous architectural element built simply “because ithas to be,” but as a system capable of responding to the different needs, habits, and lifestyles of different people. Here, the balcony ceases to be a passive element standing at the boundary of the house and becomes an active threshold that collects water, uses sunlight, grows plants, provides space for living beings, and carries daily life outside. Balcony tactics used in this project

Common-ucation of Balconies

By Demirkan Demir

Balcony is not merely a structured open area, but also a communication tool between neighborhoods and even buildings. An articulated climber plant shows that term of "Balcony" is also a common consciousness between people being a representation of ideas, beliefs and patterns. A climber plant is turned out to be a created bond between people , implying a organic collectivity. Reminding me of communication between spaces , potents in circulations and overall links in apart spaces. Demirkan Demir

Stay Balcony Forever

By Yusuf ADEM

Stay Balcony Forever Within the scope of the project, efforts have been made to bring balconies, which are gradually decreasing in number and are being closed off or incorporated into the house or used as storage space, back into our lives and to make them actively used dynamism in the facade. The five actual apartment buildings at the edge of an island plot with unused balcony potential were considered without altering their building registration area. current situation of corner and cemetery facade and The floor plans have been redesigned to allow users to live a life integrated with balconies. Some plans that can be configured according to balcony usage Configurable shading elements were designed for the facades, which change according to the direction the balcony faces. This allows the users themselves to create dynamism in the facade. Thanks for reading 😉Smile,you can still breathing

CHROMA-BITAT

By zeynep şevval

CHROMA-BITAT living cores n living shells that breathes, moves, reacts n hosts every kind. in sisli ISTANBUL, inside the heavy urban fabric, desperate to breathe houses, in need of balconies which seems to be forgotton in the area... needing a little reminder of the possibilities and stories happening between the inside and the outside master plan 1/1000

ne içeride ne dışarıda, hem içeride hem dışarıda

By nida

_insan ve insanolmayan arasında _kolektif yaşam _balkonun eşiğinde yaşayanlar _insanın/insanolmayanın mutual ilişkisi _iç ve dış arasında, _etkileşimler _karşılaşmalar _ortak kullanımlar