About
Embedded Climates Design Group is an international, award-winning design, architecture, and urbanism practice founded by the New York-based Architect-Engineer and Urban Designer Eleni Stefania Kalapoda. After working in design, architecture, urban and regional planning practices both in Europe and the USA, Eleni Stefania Kalapoda founded Embedded Climates in 2023.
Centered on the passion for the relationship between the human experience and the design of the public realm and the built environment, Embedded Climates Design Group's work is driven by a people-first approach, tailored to the diverse social, cultural, and economic urban contexts, environmentally responsible, and flexible to adapt to long-term future growth. Embedded Climates Design Group's featured projects advocate for systems of economies and ecologies that can channel the flow of people and resources throughout our cities and buildings, sustaining a holistic and forward-looking concept of resilient urban development that is more equitable, just, livable, and built on a restorative process with the natural environment and the communities that inhabit it.
Our Featured Projects
Supertall Zero-Carbon Hybrid Timber Tower
with Concrete Core
Steel Diagrid &
Hybrid Timber
Floor System
Date: June 2022
Type: Professional Competition
Location: Hudson Yards, New York
Scale: 1,120,000 sq. ft.
Carbon-Neutral
Wetland Landmark Resort & High-Speed Railway Plan
Date: July 2023
Type: Professional Competition
Location: Quzhou, China
Scale: 11 ha
Net Zero Multi-Purpose Stadium
with Climate-Responsive
ETFE Skin | High-Tech &
Innovation District's
Infrastructure
Date: October 2022
Type: Professional Competition
Location: Qin Chuang Yuan, China
Scale: 18 ha
Net-Positive Research Laboratory & University Campus Redevelopment Plan
Date: August 2023-Ongoing
Type: Professional
Location: BKK, Thailand
Scale: 135,000 sq. ft.
Net-Positive
LIC Incubator:
Advanced Green Manufacturing
Tech & Living Synergies for
Vibrant, Healthy,
and Inclusive Placemaking at Long Island City’s
Post-Industrial Edge
Date: July 2020
Type: Professional Competition
Location: Long Island City, New York
Scale: 9 ha
Zero-Carbon Arts Center:
Cultural Icon & Landmark
Date: July 2023
Type: Professional Competition
Location: Zagora, Bulgaria
Scale: 107,500 sq. ft.
Hellenic-American College Arts Building
with Climate-Responsive Closed Cavity Façade System (CCF)
Date: February 2022
Type: Professional Competition
Location: Psichiko, Greece
Scale: 50000 sq. ft.
Carbon-Neutral Municipal Hall & Campus Redevelopment Plan
Date: July 2022
Type: Professional Competition
Location: Flint, Michigan
Scale: 157000 sq. ft.
Head Office Skyscraper:
An Indigenous Inspired Landmark
Date: June 2022
Type: Professional Competition
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Scale: 1.1 million sq. ft.
Mass-Timber Transportation Center: Material Circularity for a
New Zero-Carbon
Infrastructural Hub
Date: June 2023
Type: Professional Competition
Location: Oxford, UK
Scale: 6,600 ft Long
Kingston’s Carbon-Neutral Tiny Library & Civic Center
Date: June 2023
Type: Professional Competition
Location: Kingston, New York
Scale: 24,100 sq. ft.
Bangkok’s Watershed: Flood-resilient Development
as a Catalyst
for Equitable,
Livable and
Climate Responsive
Post-industrial Regeneration
Date: June 2023
Type: Professional
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Scale: 24,100 sq. ft.
