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Housing Block

Multi-unit residential buildings and complexes that house communities at various scales and densities.

57 Projects 14 Publications 62 Journals

About Discussions Projects57 Journals62 Publications14

57 projects

Nabila

Reclaiming The Margins

Reclaiming the Margins: Designing Inclusive Housing for the Harijan Community

Pranjal

AABHAS -a sense of home

They build our cities, yet live without a place in them.This project reimagines housing for migrant workers-not as shelter, but as dignity. Modular, mobile, and co-created, it moves with them, grows with them, and uplifts their families with creche, workshops, and safe spaces.A home that respects culture, empowers women, and builds community.

Shizuka

VOICES IN THE BLUEPRINT

This thesis reimagines Bhola slum in Dhaka through affordable, incremental housing rooted in community needs. A masterplan of low-rise clusters, shared facilities, and revitalized waterbody integrates density, adaptability, and livelihood, creating a dignified, sustainable, and replicable urban model.

Vardhan

De-commodifying People

De-commodifying People: A Transgressive Approach to Social Housing in Mumbai. The project aims to explore the critical need to shift our perspective on housing from a commodity to a fundamental human right, especially in the context of Mumbai's social fabric.

Mariam and 3 others

Nilai, the city that feels like home

Nilai city is a manifestation of the Javanese history, culture, and identity. Designed to empower, sustain, and stay afloat, it is truly the city that feels like "home". Exploring a realm of interchange between modernism and vernacular, Nilai is the perfect blend of the two worlds.

Lulu and 2 others

Weaved city

"Our lifestyle isn't fixed, so why should our spaces be?" Weaved City brings a creative layer of personalization between the people and their dwellings through an innovative form of flexibility. The proposed housing aims to accommodate changing patterns of tenancy that aren't anticipated at the time of its construction.

Kutlu and 2 others

SOCIAL_PATCH

It was to create vertically established community that would reduce the segregation of high-rise buildings by providing the flexibility to repeat the habitual life without interrupting it. Design centered on social and cultural sustainability.

Rafaella and Abigail

THE TREE HOUSE

Located in Bolgatanga, Ghana, the Community Housing will not only set a new standard of living conditions in the region but will also provide a source of inspiration by showcasing locally-sound building materials in an innovative and modern way.

Robert and 3 others

Courtyard Living

The project proposes housing that reflects Bolgatanga’s culture and lifestyle by incorporating the spatial arrangement of the region’s traditional compound houses and courtyards, which encourage community engagement among inhabitants.

fatemezahra and 2 others

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Issathies residential complex

Issathies was a mother in our minds whose every unit was her child and its inhabitants were all a family: Children who make shared memories in this house today to create a better tomorrow for their family and country. This journey in the definition of spatial bodies led us to create a small place in the heart of Issathies.

Aylar

Seventy Ninth Sense

In the past, the city of Tehran had its own architectural identity, but the massive and non - coherent increase of construction in recent years has caused both rupture and failure, one of the objectives of this project is to address this issue.

Sana

Multi Storeyed Housing Team : Sana & Siddharth

The Multi Storeyed housing project was designed to take advantage of the city’s year round weather, where a series of ground level parks, courtyards, roof and sky gardens define a well connected , permeable public world along with private premises, with the aim to create a 24 hour living space, filled with amenities all through the day.