Shown here are selected projects from among Newtecnic’s catalogue of more than 200 projects.

The projects shown here are those where Newtecnic is concept architect and engineering designer.

The last set of projects shown here are multi-disciplinary project primers, all designed by Newtecnic as architect and engineering designers.

For further information about the history and design approach of Newtecnic, please visit the Newtecnic Wiki.

Case Study: Theory in Built Forms

The architectural work of Newtecnic appears at once near-future and rigorously grounded—a design language shaped less by speculative fiction than by constructive realism. While distinct in tone and audience, these projects are fully aligned in ethos, method, and ambition with the approach articulated in the Modern Construction Series by Andrew Watts.

Rather than treating design and engineering as distinct domains, Newtecnic approaches architecture as a synthetic discipline—one in which performance, fabrication, and assembly are not outcomes of design but its generative forces. This sensibility is evident across both built and unbuilt work, where construction logic is not imposed post hoc but arises intrinsically as architectural content.

The aesthetic of these buildings may suggest a timeline just ahead of the present—parametric forms, integrated MEP systems, and morphologies shaped by simulation and analysis. Yet their futurity is not utopian. It is grounded in buildability, in digital models translated directly into fabrication data, in sequencing strategies developed from first principles. This commitment to actionable complexity mirrors the central proposition of the Modern Construction Series: that construction systems, far from limiting design, are the medium through which it gains clarity, precision, and agency.

Where the publications abstract and generalize—codifying best practices for professional and educational use—the buildings are necessarily specific: culturally situated, contextually responsive, and often expressive in form. The difference lies not in contradiction but in translation. The books operate as the methodological substratum from which Newtecnic’s architecture emerges. The practice does not merely illustrate the theory; it operationalizes it.

In this sense, Newtecnic’s design work serves as the embodied continuation of the Modern Construction Series—a demonstration of what becomes possible when constructive intelligence is given spatial and cultural form. What the books articulate through diagrams and sequencing, the buildings render through material, geometry, and inhabitation. It is not a parallel agenda, but the same one, unfolded across different registers of discourse and practice.

The principles of architectural and environmental design of buildings designed by Newtecnic are as follows:

• Greater controlled daylight to interior spaces by reducing depth of floor plates.

• Controlled admission of sunlight to activity spaces.

• Open floor plates which suit natural cross ventilation.

• Services as active controls positioned near their point of use, including facade zones.

• Open spaces between blocks, linked by bridges.

The principles of architectural and structural design of buildings designed by Newtecnic are as follows:

• Linked structural forms for activity space and support space.

• Support of passive and active systems within facade zones.

• Floor plate structures which suit natural cross ventilation.

• Unity of exterior form and internal space to reduce secondary structure.

• External space between building forms, linked by bridges, in place of enclosed space.

The crossover themes of these project primers are; making, educating and living.

Further information and case studies for these projects can be found at the De Gruyter Birkhäuser Modern Construction Online database.

For further information about the history and design approach of Newtecnic, please visit the Newtecnic Wiki.