Housing Block
Multi-unit residential buildings and complexes that house communities at various scales and densities.
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.
rue royale architectes Sets Four Gridded Social Housing Blocks Around a Shared Garden in Bron
In Bron, near Lyon, a strict concrete grid filled with timber-lined loggias gives 5,791 m² of social housing a calm, generous relationship with its landsca
Office MI—JI Carves a Nine-Square Courtyard House out of a Bayside Melbourne Block
A bayside Melbourne house in block and brick, tied together by one pale blue steel band and split into four quadrants around planted courtyards.
minuit architectes Wedges Nine Homes into a Narrow Montreuil Plot with a Stepped Back and Roof Terraces
In Montreuil, France, a 600 m² infill block of nine apartments steps down toward its courtyard, trading facade spectacle for light, terraces and craft.
JVST Wraps a Raised Public Garden in Brick and Green Block for 118 Social Homes in The Hague
In The Hague's post-war Zichten district, Steenzicht 1A trades open slab planning for a courtyard block lifted over parking and opened to the street.
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.
