Community Housing
Collaborative housing models and shared living spaces designed for community connection and social impact.
Moving "Rubik's Cube": Stilted Color Blocks That Give the Homeless an Address and a Neighborhood
Raised boxes, red mast canopies and colour chosen for hope combine into a low-cost village that invites outsiders in rather than walling residents off.
Home for Homelessness: A Dog Shelter Where Homeless People Become the Staff and the Residents
One looping, half-buried building houses stray dogs, homeless caretakers and a food bank, and lets arc walls decide who shares space with whom.
Co-Life: Senior Housing That Grows Like a Neighbourhood and Keeps Older Adults in the City
A hexagonal, expandable cluster of homes, gardens, markets and care spaces that extends the surrounding street network instead of walling elders off.
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.
