Community-Driven Architecture
Architecture designed with and for communities, prioritizing local participation, cultural context, and social impact.
Framework: A Modular Housing System That Grows With Its Residents
Anna Szczepaniak proposes an expandable residential framework where inhabitants assemble their own flats within a shared structural grid.
Ethnic Solidarities and the culture of commons
The aim of the design was to rework the form of the commons to develop newer aesthetics in continuation of the older type and cultural habitations of the community.
CO(mm)UNITY: Senior Living Architecture Designed Around Care, Community and Green Space
CO(mm)UNITY rethinks senior living architecture as a green, open community where care, independence, and everyday social life come together.
CUBE(ish)
People are in a rush between their home and workplaces. They sometimes miss the opportunity to pause, look around and feel good. At this point in-between spaces (between home and workplace) in cities draw attention. Our concept is an in-between space which creates an escape point from daily rush.
SHELTERED: Alternative Shelter and Urban Framework
This thesis considers all homeless shelters and resources in an urban setting as one connected system, then uses architecture to bridge the gaps in this system in order to connect federal resources, municipal responsibilities, and non-profit efforts.
New Babylon II
New Babylon II aims to develop a highly circuitry plugin housing network of a miniature and autonomous city with machine tectonics. It discusses about a technological utopia of how human being, ecology and technology can come together to reject the housing shortage and the social inequality.
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.dfbhsetnhjsetn
The free growth of the houses in the urban village
The base is located in the city village of Shenzhen, hoping to explore a kind of residential mode which is from the city village but superior to it. It is expected that the living mode will grow freely in the mode of city village, with more space vitality, and activate the surrounding environment at the same time.
MINOR lab Stitches Three Leftover Spaces into a Community Art Ecosystem in Langfang
A café, gallery, and artist studio carved from residential surplus in a Hebei housing development prove small-scale renewal works.
Cell Renewal Community
The project is based on the concept of "Cellular Renewal", which simulates cellular growth, cell division, and blood oxygen exchange, and imparts this dynamic to the community itself, where culture is the equivalent of oxygen, and our space rotates, moves, and grows to further increase the exchange of different cultural activities. We would like to think abo
Co-Hub
Co-Hub users are free to choose the way they live in terms of interaction. They may choose to live in a range from individualistic to collective. By getting the users involved in the daily loop, Co-Hub provides unity to operate the hub itself. Considering its form, Co-Hub is designed to be replicable and easily adaptable to various lots around the globe.
Kithara Music Kiosk in Mexico City: A Community-Driven Architecture for Music, Culture, and Social Impact
Community-built music kiosk in Mexico City uses recycled materials, supports education, cultural events, and strengthens social connections through participatory architecture.
PULO Market by A9A Architects: A Community-Centric Urban Marketplace in Zhengzhou
Community-focused modular market blending timber architecture, mixed-use spaces, and landscape integration, fostering social interaction and vibrant urban lifestyle experiences.
Community-Led Housing
Community Led Housing in Bangladesh reimagines formal housing through participatory and problem centric design. By engaging residents in co creation, the project addresses contextual challenges across spatial, social and environmental dimensions while fostering adaptability and collective identity. It envisions housing not only as shelter but as a resilient platform for cultural expression, social cohesion and sustainable urban living.
Plant Nursery in Belo Horizonte: A Collaborative Community Architecture Project
The Plant Nursery in Belo Horizonte fosters community collaboration, sustainable urban gardening, and educational architecture using functional wooden structures and participatory design.
Everyday X Governance: Reimagining Civic Architecture for Participatory Urban Governance
A civic architecture proposal in Mumbai that transforms the ward office into an open, participatory public realm for everyday governance.
The Power Shift: An Interdisciplinary Knowledge Sharing Hub for Sustainable Architecture
An interdisciplinary knowledge hub redefining sustainable architecture through technology, collaboration, and shared intelligence.
Tara Thiwakorn Pavilion: A Community-Built Learning Space Along the Mekong River
A community-built pavilion in rural Thailand, combining steel and local wood to create an open-air learning and gathering space.
A very strong analysis. Various building modules and plug & socket system offer a wide range and dynamic development possibility.
User oriented design which offers flexibility and versatility is relevant to Jakarta's ever-changing neighborhood. Rational orthogonal plan is complimented with different architectural forms which gives diversity in the neighborhood.