Apartment Design
Residential unit and multi-family building design, from compact micro-apartments to renovations and speculative communal housing concepts.
Apartment design covers the planning, layout, and detailing of dwelling units within multi-family buildings, where floor area, light, circulation, and shared infrastructure are tightly constrained. Designers working on apartments balance efficient plans with livability, adapting to dense urban sites, varied climates, and changing household needs.
Community work under this topic ranges from built projects in cities such as Rosario, Mumbai, and Brasília to speculative concepts for vertical villages, modular cities, and shared-island housing. Members document both finished interiors and renovations alongside experimental proposals for how apartments might group, connect, and grow.
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L. McComber Builds Studio Apartments for the Old Brewery Mission That Blend into Montreal's Brick Streets
In Montreal, Pavillon Monk houses people experiencing homelessness in sunlit studios behind a curved brick corner, glass block stairs and a storefront.
Georgios Apostolopoulos Architects Strips a 1970s Kifisia Apartment and Rebuilds Its Rooms Out of Joinery
In a circular 1970s block in the Athens suburb of Kifisia, an 80 m² flat swaps fixed walls for joinery that opens, folds and conceals on demand.
Gurgel D’Alfonso Turns the Awkward Angles of a 1990s Moema Apartment into Its Best Features
A 360 m² renovation in Moema, São Paulo, keeps the sharp corners and level changes of a 1990s flat and fills them with timber, travertine and plants.
Vilela II Apartments by Estudio Planta: Contemporary Residential Design in Argentina
Vilela II by Estudio Planta features three apartment typologies, concrete courtyard, corrosion-resistant tiles, window planters, and contemporary, durable, light-filled residential design in Argentina.
