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Low Cost Housing: Projects, Journals & Ideas

52 Projects 59 Journals 8 Publications 2 Competitions

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Low cost housing explores how designers and architects create dignified, functional living spaces within budget constraints. The work spans residential projects that prioritize affordability without compromising on quality, community integration, or environmental responsibility.

The community examines contemporary affordable housing developments, adaptive reuse of existing structures, and historical precedents that inform current practice. Projects range from student housing and workforce accommodation to large-scale residential complexes that integrate shared amenities and green spaces.

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UNI18 works

UNI Editorial6 works

Misak Terzibasiyan2 works

Nicodesign Team2 works

Jakub Hus2 works

Mahlaqa Fahami2 works

Daniel Armando Rodriguez Alonso2 works

Cristina Pérez Cámara2 works

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mohsen and 2 others

A Place To Live, A place To Be Togheter

Fast and easy transportation, connection, installation, execution and disassembly without the need for expert force Ability to train and produce at the scene according to the need for quick accommodation of survivors Creating job opportunities Compatible with nature and the use of recycled materials Maximum use of renewable energy and energy supply required

saeid and 2 others

Plugin Housing Challenge

the necessity of providing a shelter has along with basic facilities for its users. It is single or double occupancy unit, typically in urban crowded areas. The interiors of such apartments, units are also complacent with the concept itself and kept flexible enough to have adaptive furniture that reduces the need of more space.

Mahlaqa

BEYOND "LIVING"

Social Housing for Ready-Made Garment (RMG) Workers in Urban Bangladesh that rethinks the living space for the lower-income working community according to their demands and generates co-living as well as income generation for every household.

akansha

Minima

Minima is a cleverly compact and crafted small footprint home catering to all the basic needs of a family of four. It is characterized by an easy assemble and disassemble process, a compact and flexible structure catering to the basic needs of all the members.

Cristina

HABITAT Student Housing

HABITAT proposal is an aesthetically appealing, affordable, sustainable modular style housing proposal that provides a healthy community living space for many individuals including those with accessibility needs on small footprint of land. The concept could be used in many different settings and would be a positive addition to our living spaces.

Jiaying

Homey Hub

The Hustle Hub is renamed as "Homey Hub". This is because of the aim of this youth housing design is to make the young residents feel at home and help them to pursue their life and career goal, instead of 'hustling' in their life.

Ahmad and 3 others

LIVE.WORK.PLAY

Imagine a place for a person and everyone around him which shelters and provides for everyone. The hustle hub brings about the concept of a sound community and interpolated working environment.It's a kick start for their livelihood where they wont be bothered by loan or rent.They will focus more on the work rather unwanted mortgage load.

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.

Asif and eftey

The Home Kit

A "knock down" or kit system house concept for lower-middle income family living in a dense tropical city. A joint family of 6 members contains 3 generations and the house promotes family living, sustainability and self-sufficiency.

Nazifa

Eco-Homes: Enhancing the Urban Poor of Sattola

Eco-Homes redefines housing for Dhaka’s urban poor proposing modular, affordable homes built from recycled concrete and salvaged materials, 22% cheaper than conventional. With an Anti-Eviction Grid that prevents displacement, plus courtyards, rooftop farms, and community-led design, it’s a sustainable, dignified model ready to be replicated worldwide.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

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.

Residential Building

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

Lenka Milerová Turns an Old Village Pigsty into a 32-Square-Meter Concrete Summer House in Czechia

In Panoší Újezd, a rubble-stone pigsty gains cast concrete reveals, a slope-cut bath and a daybed that doubles as woodstore, all for about €20,000.

Residential Building

Landscape Design

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

The Earth Pod: 3D Printed Clay Dwellings That Treat Refugee Shelter as Long-Term Habitat

Florian Mouafo Zambou's Strata 2020 entry prints clay pods inspired by earthen cooling vessels, shaded by solar canopies built for years, not weeks.

Refugee Camp

Space Habitat

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

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.

Social Housing

Habitat