Low Cost Housing
Affordable housing design addressing accessibility, community, and sustainable living solutions.
The Earth Pod: 3D Printed Homes for Resilient Refugee Communities
The Earth Pod reimagines refugee housing through 3D printed homes made from clay, combining resilience, self-sufficiency, and rapid shelter.
Bresciani Valdés Castillo Huidobro's 1950s Santiago Housing Complex Still Holds Lessons
The Matta Viel complex in Santiago, Chile, pairs modernist ambition with courtyard urbanism across four concrete blocks and three shared gardens.
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.
Cuatro Cero Cuatro Arquitectura Lines Up Five Identical Beach Houses on Peru's Northern Coast
In Zorritos, five friends split a narrow beachfront lot into a modular housing complex tuned to equatorial sun and Pacific breezes.
Three Studios Build 200 Affordable Units for Tulum's Displaced Hospitality Workers
Casa Selva embeds dark concrete housing blocks into Yucatán rainforest, offering dignified shelter to those priced out by the tourism they serve.
Studio Frozen Music Replaces a Generic Nashik Tower with a Stepped Brick and Concrete Housing Block
A 53,000-square-foot apartment building in Nashik, India, trades the typical floor-plate tower for staggered terraces and perforated brick screens.
Taller MACAA Weaves Adobe Lodging into the Sacred Valley at 3,100 Meters Above Sea Level
Dormis Donata bridges permanent and temporary inhabitation through earthen construction in the agricultural highlands of Taray, Peru.
Mitti Raag: 3D-Printed Housing That Reconnects Displaced Families to Land
A 150-home neighborhood in Assam uses low-carbon concrete printing and communal planning to restore dignity after displacement.
Capsule Nest: Stacking Three Generations on a 4x12 Meter Plot in Urban India
A compact housing prototype uses central courtyards, arched forms, and vertical stacking to serve multi-generational living on 48 square meters.
The Home Kit: A Modular Dwelling That Grows with the Family
Prefabricated steel frames, jute panels, and bamboo modules let a joint family of six build incrementally across generations in dense tropical cities.
Hexagonal Affordable Housing: Sliding Trapezoidal Cells That Reconfigure a City Block
Eighty-four kinetic modules slot into a structural grid, harvesting solar energy as they slide to reshape a San Francisco housing block.
CALEM Plugin Housing: Modular Tranquility on a 4000 m² Bangalore Plot
A prefabricated steel module system turns a tight Agram neighborhood site into calm, scalable micro dwellings for diverse households.
