Housing
Residential design and architecture exploring housing typologies, community living, and innovative dwelling solutions.
Bard Yersin Architectes Slots a Family Apartment into a Working Swiss Stable Beside the Horses
In Siviriez, Switzerland, a 1930s Fribourg farmhouse gains a ground-floor home in its old hay passage while horses still occupy the stable next door.
Georgios Apostolopoulos Architects Strips a 1970s Kifisia Apartment and Rebuilds Its Rooms Out of Joinery
In a circular 1970s block in the Athens suburb of Kifisia, an 80 m² flat swaps fixed walls for joinery that opens, folds and conceals on demand.
Clube Stages Hick Duarte's Amateur Football Photographs Across Five Elements in a Downtown São Paulo Gallery
In Galeria Metrópole, São Paulo, Clube turns floor, wall, pillars, grid and screens into a compact pitch for Hick Duarte's portraits of amateur football.
Smart City: An Autonomous Urban Cell That Quarantines a Neighborhood, Not an Apartment
Towers, a rolling green roof and a domed hospital ward form a self-sufficient urban cell built to keep daily life running when the city locks down.
Gurgel D’Alfonso Turns the Awkward Angles of a 1990s Moema Apartment into Its Best Features
A 360 m² renovation in Moema, São Paulo, keeps the sharp corners and level changes of a 1990s flat and fills them with timber, travertine and plants.
Earthen Oasis: Mortarless Earth Blocks Stack a Shared Garden Into Accra Housing
Kente-patterned columns, interlocking earth walls and fish-filled pools turn an Accra housing block into a farm, a commons and a green refuge.
Ayodele: Earth-Built Housing That Pushes Back Against Accra's Concrete and Asphalt
A modular earth-built housing block for central Accra stacks family units around shared courtyards, craft studios and planted roofs.
Norway Architecture Academy: A Glass Courtyard That Makes Interaction the Curriculum
In Trondheim, a glazed atrium, sunken workspaces, a public roof deck and modular apartments turn a school of architecture into a meeting ground.
Earth Made Residence: Stacking a Ghanaian Compound House into 36 Units Made Entirely of Earth
Cublo reimagines Accra's traditional compound house as a dynamic, cantilevered block that argues earthen architecture can be iconic.
Earth Made: Rammed Earth Housing in Accra Organised Around an Old African Courtyard
A shortlisted proposal stacks four apartment types around a planted courtyard, letting earthen walls and long openings do the cooling work.
Plug & Play Amsterdam: A Steel Shelf Where Stages, Domes and Homes Slot In and Out
An open steel frame in Amsterdam holds apartments, an orange auditorium and a glass dome, turning a housing block into a stage that opens to its lawn
Edward Conde Serna Arquitectos Threads Elevated Walkways Through Cali's Foothills to Seed a New Urban Forest
A 57,000 m² park on Cali's mountain edge in Colombia uses raised steel boardwalks to reconnect the city with the Farallones and grow an urban forest.
