Community Housing
Collaborative housing models and shared living spaces designed for community connection and social impact.
Co-Life: Senior Housing Design That Reconnects Older Adults With the City
Co-Life reimagines senior housing design through healing gardens, shared streets, workshops, and a sustainable community across generations.
Actual Office Turns South London Shell Spaces into a Warm, Steel-Accented Shared Living Scheme
At Cherry Orchard, a restrained palette of pale timber, white brick, and polished steel gives communal living a sense of quiet permanence.
Régis Roudil Wraps 46 Timber-Framed Social Housing Units into a Curved Courtyard Near Toulouse
A circular residence built from unfired earth brick and wood wool insulation anchors a new ecodistrict in Cornebarrieu, France.
SV60 Arquitectos Wraps 134 Homes Around a Green Lung in Eastern Seville
A permeable perimeter block in Sevilla Este uses cross-ventilation, ribbed metal cladding, and a shared courtyard to domesticate a heterogeneous suburb.
Cuatro Cero Cuatro Arquitectura Lines Up Five Identical Beach Houses on Peru's Northern Coast
In Zorritos, five friends split a narrow beachfront lot into a modular housing complex tuned to equatorial sun and Pacific breezes.
Brooks Scarpa Huber Turns a Sacramento Housing Block into a Neighborhood Porch
A 67-unit net-zero affordable housing project in Sacramento replaces defensive walls with a carved-out courtyard open to its community.
Spacon & X Turn a Copenhagen Film Warehouse into a 46-Unit Community Housing Experiment
On Amager island, a former film storage building becomes a colorful mixed-age coliving complex with 10 shared spaces and no private kitchens.
Ramdam Architectes and palast Build 81 Homes from Prefabricated Hempcrete in a Nantes Barracks
A former military compound in central Nantes becomes a residential hamlet built with hemp-lime walls and a timber frame structure.
L. McComber Converts a Contaminated Lachine Tavern into 18 Units of Permanent Housing
Place Tenaquip rebuilds a long-abandoned corner tavern in Montreal as dignified brick housing for residents leaving homelessness.
ABC Studio Wraps 20 Senior Housing Units in Glazed Balconies on Nancy's Haut-du-Lièvre Plateau
A concrete social housing block in Maxéville, France, gives every senior resident a glassed-in outdoor room with panoramic views.
MAKER Architecten Weaves Social Housing into Kortrijk's Dense Urban Fabric with Brick and Restraint
A social housing infill in Kortrijk, Belgium, negotiates between existing rooftops, rail corridors, and neighborhood memory with quiet force.
The Sierra Alternative Housing: Transforming Transitional Living in Lancaster, California
The Sierra Alternative Housing transforms a desert motel into vibrant transitional homes, offering 38 units, community spaces, sustainability, and social support.
