Housing
Residential design and architecture exploring housing typologies, community living, and innovative dwelling solutions.
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.
Ryuichi Sasaki Gives Western Tokyo's Geography a Concrete Form in a Five-Storey Nakano Apartment Block
In Nakano, Tokyo, eleven compact apartments stack above a basement behind concrete, shifting windows and diagonally split stone-textured panels.
Raulino Silva Keeps an Old Granite Wall and Builds a Family House and Rental Flats Behind It in Vila do Conde
In Vila do Conde's historic centre, a retained granite street wall, setbacks and suspended patios knit a family house and two flats into one block.
Estúdio Minke Strips a 1940s Higienópolis Apartment Back to Its Concrete Bones and Plants It Like a Village House
In São Paulo's Higienópolis, a 113 m² renovation trades a compartmentalized 1940s plan for one open room of concrete, reclaimed brick and greenery.
gaSSz arquitectos Builds a Demountable Circular-Economy Garden from Rubble and Tires in Madrid's Vicálvaro
In Vicálvaro, Madrid, a 2,400 m² garden of bolted yellow steel, rubble gabions and tire-rubber paving treats public space as a reversible material bank.
Atelier Orzan Folds the Doorways of a Le Havre Enfilade into Built-In Furniture
In Le Havre's Costière district, a 55 m² ground-floor flat keeps its brick vaults while olive panels and okoumé joinery redraw every threshold.
Christopher Sitzler Reworks a Fragmented 1990s Berlin Attic into One Continuous Room Wired for Sound
A 76 m² attic apartment in Berlin trades its chopped-up 1990s plan for one open space of teak, steel, sheer fabric and speakers set into the walls.
Treivas Architecture Bureau Paints a Restored Attic Ceiling Lemon Yellow in a 19th-Century Suzdal Building
A 73 m² attic apartment in Suzdal, Russia, where restored timber, exposed brick and a lemon yellow ceiling turn low evening sun into the main material.
Studio Carré Rebuilds a 70 m² Marais Apartment Around a Red Kitchen Corridor and a 360-Degree Sightline
In the Enfants Rouges quarter of Paris, a 70 m² third-floor flat trades walls for sightlines, terracotta, steel and one fearless coat of red.
