Futuristic Floating Residents
Residential designs that leverage floating, cantilevered, and offshore structures for future habitation.
Afloat: A Floating Indonesian City That Uses Shared Housing to Ease Ethnic Tension
Timber gables, fishing grids and planted islets form a water district where a common way of living becomes the ground on which neighbors meet.
Lumination Exploration: Mobile Underwater Vessels Redefine What Architecture Can Be
A fleet of autonomous, shape-shifting habitats navigates Pacific Ocean trenches, turning migration into a form of community planning.
BUBHUB: Underwater Bubble Clusters That Grow Like Coral Reefs
A modular underwater habitat system designed to blur the line between architecture and marine ecosystem through biomimicry and incremental growth.
Floating Urban Village: Modular Platforms for a Climate-Resilient Community on Water
A shortlisted entry for Afloat reimagines Indonesian coastal settlement as an expandable network of floating residential and agricultural modules.
Pie in the Sky: A 300-Metre Hydrogen Airship That Moves the Farm to Wherever the Weather Is Good
Habiba Mukhtar treats climate as a route rather than a site, lifting 160 people, their crops and a closed resource loop into a drifting airborne village.
Rushi Shah Architects and Tattva Landscapes Float a Cantilevered Home Over a Lotus Pond in Ahmedabad
A family of builders crafts a low-slung, climate-responsive pavilion on the rural outskirts of Gujarat's largest city.
Proximity Island Frame: A Floating Platform That Holds the Horizon Still While the Sea Moves
qiaoxi wu's Editor's Choice entry rides existing offshore columns with the tide, framing the sea-sky line as a fixed datum in a restless ocean.
Proximity Island: An Abandoned Oil Rig Reborn as a Vertical Cultural Ecosystem at Sea
Sasha Pokidova stacks galleries, research spaces and co-housing cells inside a sponge-like hexagonal skin, turning offshore industry into a micro-city.
Deployable Inflatable Mars Habitat: Packing a Free-Plan Home into a Launch-Ready Cylinder
A shortlisted Habitats '20 entry that swaps rigid construction for inflation, unfolding a compact cylinder into flexible rooms on Mars plains and caves.
CTA | Creative Architects Designs Triangular Floating Shelters for Vietnam's Flood-Ravaged Communities
A timber-louvered triangular shelter rises on concrete pontoons to keep Vietnamese families safe and together when floodwaters come.
Reconceptualizing Spaces for Future Dwelling: Modular Housing That Moves With Life
A vertical modular housing system where units expand, merge, relocate, and transform around a central core to counter urban sprawl.
Irwell Hill Residences: Pixelated Architecture Redefining Modular Living in Singapore
Irwell Hill Residences reimagines modular housing in Singapore through a pixelated façade that blends efficiency, greenery, and architectural identity.
