Emergency Shelter
Temporary and transitional housing solutions designed for displaced persons, refugees, and vulnerable populations in crisis.
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.
Temporary Home for Dogs: A Reversed Zoo Rethinks Animal Shelter Architecture
In Bucharest, a sinuous corridor and freed landscape flip the logic of containment, designing a shelter that works to make itself unnecessary.
Adapost Vagabond: Architecture That Sequences Empathy in Animal Shelter Design
A shelter for stray dogs organized around graduated encounters, courtyard zones, and a circulation strategy that prioritizes older animals.
Ardalan Shelter: Computational Form Finding for an Adaptive Kinetic Structure
A multi-objective design study integrating environmental data, evolutionary algorithms, kinetic systems, and responsive architecture
The Sheltering Centre: A Skid Row Parking Tower Where People, Not Cars, Are Given Shelter
A People's Choice entry to Parkx that keeps parking at the base and stacks shelter, hygiene and assistance above it, steps from Skid Row.
Paulo Moreira Turns Recycled Steel Drums into Dignified Safety Shelters for South African Volunteers
In Stjwetla, a Johannesburg settlement plagued by crime, two 50 m² prototypes reframe the guard hut as civic architecture.
gru.a Wraps a 20-Square-Meter Fitness Shelter in Bamboo and Polycarbonate at Petrópolis
A barrel-vaulted canopy in the Brazilian highlands grafts new materials onto a eucalyptus soccer-field frame to create a place for exercise.
gru.a Builds a 70 m² Timber Shelter That Opens Like a Farm Door in Brazil's Valley of the Vines
In the mountainous region near Rio de Janeiro, a compact retreat uses plywood panels and deep eaves to blur the line between inside and out.
Pedro Moncayo Torres Builds a Primitive Hut from Stone and Reed Cane in Ecuador's Southern Highlands
A 175-square-meter farmstead retreat in Tarqui channels vernacular construction to sit quietly inside an endemic forest.
Gimme Shelter Solutions Plants a Modular Self-Build Prototype in a Swedish Forest
On the island of Väddö, architect Emelie Holmberg fuses barn vernacular and Japanese minimalism into a 40 m² expandable woodland dwelling.
Francois Brugel and Atelier RITA Convert a Parisian Military Bakery into a 438-Bed Emergency Shelter
A former armed forces bakery on a decommissioned barracks site near the gates of Paris becomes a dignified refuge for nearly 450 people.
Pedro Moncayo Torres Revives the Primitive Hut on an Ecuadorian Farm for Under $100K
A 175-square-meter stone and timber refuge in Tarqui, Ecuador, channels vernacular building traditions to dissolve into its misty pastoral landscape.
