Habitability
Design approaches for making spaces livable, from earthbound homes to extraterrestrial environments.
Habitability examines how architecture creates functional and meaningful living environments. It encompasses both the practical systems that support human life and the experiential qualities that make spaces feel like home.
The community explores habitability across diverse contexts: retrofitting existing structures like Vietnamese row houses, designing dense urban neighborhoods with shared green space, imagining habitats on Mars and the Moon, and investigating how architecture supports coexistence in speculative cities.
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View all 7 journalsS.LA Architecture Reopens a Narrow Vietnamese Row House Around Light and Memory
A 65 m² renovation in Bac Giang, Vietnam, swaps rooms, removes walls, and lets a bachelor owner reclaim her childhood home.
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.
Role of Architecture in space habitats
“We are all astronauts on a little spaceship called Earth” Buckminster Fuller