Housing Block
Multi-unit residential buildings and complexes that house communities at various scales and densities.
Housing blocks represent a fundamental typology in urban and suburban design, addressing how multiple dwellings can be organized, serviced, and integrated into their contexts. These projects range from dense urban complexes to dispersed residential arrangements, each solving different programmatic and site-specific challenges.
The community explores housing blocks through diverse approaches: adaptive reuse and historical precedent, sustainable density with shared amenities, modular and scalable housing systems, and site-responsive designs that integrate landscape and topography. Work spans student housing, speculative residential, and experimental models that test new ways of living collectively.
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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.
