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Affordable Housing

57 Projects 60 Journals 4 Publications

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57 projects

Hussein

Rethinking Urban Slums

This project proposes a new vision for addressing Iraq’s informal housing crisis through a realistic, human-centered approach. Rather than demolition and displacement, it promotes incremental, in-place interventions that empower residents, address social and economic challenges, and create a sustainable model for inclusive urban development.

Nazifa

Eco-Homes: Enhancing the Urban Poor of Sattola

Eco-Homes redefines housing for Dhaka’s urban poor proposing modular, affordable homes built from recycled concrete and salvaged materials, 22% cheaper than conventional. With an Anti-Eviction Grid that prevents displacement, plus courtyards, rooftop farms, and community-led design, it’s a sustainable, dignified model ready to be replicated worldwide.

Nabila

Reclaiming The Margins

Reclaiming the Margins: Designing Inclusive Housing for the Harijan Community

Pranjal

AABHAS -a sense of home

They build our cities, yet live without a place in them.This project reimagines housing for migrant workers-not as shelter, but as dignity. Modular, mobile, and co-created, it moves with them, grows with them, and uplifts their families with creche, workshops, and safe spaces.A home that respects culture, empowers women, and builds community.

Shizuka

VOICES IN THE BLUEPRINT

This thesis reimagines Bhola slum in Dhaka through affordable, incremental housing rooted in community needs. A masterplan of low-rise clusters, shared facilities, and revitalized waterbody integrates density, adaptability, and livelihood, creating a dignified, sustainable, and replicable urban model.

Vardhan

De-commodifying People

De-commodifying People: A Transgressive Approach to Social Housing in Mumbai. The project aims to explore the critical need to shift our perspective on housing from a commodity to a fundamental human right, especially in the context of Mumbai's social fabric.

Duy

Social Housing in Amazon

Emphasizing the importance of rescuing the qualities of vernacular architecture, the project incorporates features in its design familiar to residents of stilt houses, valuing the Amazonian way of life.

Mariam and 3 others

Nilai, the city that feels like home

Nilai city is a manifestation of the Javanese history, culture, and identity. Designed to empower, sustain, and stay afloat, it is truly the city that feels like "home". Exploring a realm of interchange between modernism and vernacular, Nilai is the perfect blend of the two worlds.

Lulu and 2 others

Weaved city

"Our lifestyle isn't fixed, so why should our spaces be?" Weaved City brings a creative layer of personalization between the people and their dwellings through an innovative form of flexibility. The proposed housing aims to accommodate changing patterns of tenancy that aren't anticipated at the time of its construction.

Fandi and Lucas

Versatile housing

The 2.3m2.3m2.3m grid system approach provides a sustainable, efficient, and cost-effective solution to the housing crisis, and our modular system ensures flexibility in different scales to meet both urban planning expectation and individual preferences.

Nicodesign

M-Nasti

The idea of the project is to create a residential building where people can live and have a green house to production of their own fruit and vegetables. With solar panels, recycled water supply and greenhouses, this design is efficient and sustainable enough to support its inhabitants for long periods of time.

Michele and Carlo

NYAC - New York Affordable City

Starting from the city’s goal to reach 300,000 affordable units by 2026, this thesis aims to investigate the process that makes the city un-affordable, through a design experience based on a multi-layered reading of the urban and social fabric of the city.