Light drifts through a lattice of columns and quiet workstations, turning the embassy’s interior into a breathing scaffold where air, people, and landscape flow uninterrupted.

The embassy’s programme is organised along hydrological gradients rather than conventional hierarchies, embedding water movement directly into spatial form.

The slender columns disturb little, allowing soil, roots, and water to move freely beneath it. Shaded undercrofts become habitats, terraces become catchments, circulation becomes a vertical extension of the landscape.

A gesture of restraint: an architecture that absorbs rather than imposes. Traditional architecture treats soil as a static substrate. Sponge-city theory reconceives soil as active infrastructure.