Housing Block
Multi-unit residential buildings and complexes that house communities at various scales and densities.
Bresciani Valdés Castillo Huidobro's 1950s Santiago Housing Complex Still Holds Lessons
The Matta Viel complex in Santiago, Chile, pairs modernist ambition with courtyard urbanism across four concrete blocks and three shared gardens.
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.
Esquissos Splits a Sintra Hillside into Three Houses That Disappear into Their Landscape
Three isolated white gabled volumes in Sintra, Portugal step down a slope, using concrete terraces and timber to blur the line between house and garden.
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.
Heim Balp Architekten and Pablo Pita Arquitectos Revive a Porto Workers' Village as 40 Hospitality Units
A labyrinthine 19th-century working-class 'ilha' in central Porto finds new clarity through subtraction, oak, and a muted grey palette.
Arqtipo Stacks Trapezoidal Brick Balconies into a Buenos Aires Housing Tower
Ten apartments on a narrow corner lot in Villa Urquiza use perforated brickwork as climate screen, privacy filter, and urban identity.
Studio Frozen Music Replaces a Generic Nashik Tower with a Stepped Brick and Concrete Housing Block
A 53,000-square-foot apartment building in Nashik, India, trades the typical floor-plate tower for staggered terraces and perforated brick screens.
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.
4RQ and MBM Arquitectes Build 24 Social Housing Units That Bridge Industry and Park in Igualada
A dry-built affordable housing block in Catalonia's Les Comes neighbourhood channels its industrial past to expand collective space.
LABarq Builds an Entire House in Querétaro from a Single Custom Concrete Block
Casa Capuchinas uses one sand-colored block as structure, finish, and sunscreen across 477 square meters of suburban Mexico.
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.
Octavia Hill: Social Housing as Sculptural Form
Studioninedots shapes a 9,500 m² social housing block in Hoofddorp into an abstract, wedge-like centrepiece clad in pale green tile.
