Architect / researcher / independent practice
Spaces that give more than they take.
Farhana Tahseen is an architect working across academic and professional projects, with a focus on energy-aware, contextual, and buildable design.
Explore selected workARCHITECTURE
+ ENERGY
Designing with climate
as a creative partner.
Good buildings are
active participants.
They catch the morning light, hold warmth through winter, make room for a neighbour, and age with grace. My work starts there: with the quiet forces that make a place feel inevitable.
Energy-efficient and Environmental Building Design
Lund University
A small body
of useful work.
Less impact.
More life.
Every project is an opportunity to make the invisible visible: embodied carbon, solar gain, the path of water, the social life of a threshold.
Begin with what exists
Reuse, repair, and reveal before adding. The most sustainable square metre is often already standing.
Let the climate in
Use daylight, shade, mass, and cross ventilation as design materials, not technical afterthoughts.
Make room for change
Design for different bodies, different seasons, and the uses we cannot predict yet.