Modular Assembly
Design and construction approaches using prefabricated, stackable, or interlocking components for flexible spatial solutions.
cotacero Builds a 500-Square-Meter School in Seven Weeks on a Peruvian Hillside
A modular concrete-and-timber nursery in Ancón, Peru, serves 450 children using a repeatable 7-by-7-meter bay system.
Dietsch Vilaça and Hauptstadt-Studio.Berlin Insert a Modular Pavilion into an Industrial Courtyard
A lightweight dining and gathering pavilion animates an igus factory courtyard in Cologne with yellow steel and striped canopies.
ALAS Alarcon Linde Architects Builds a Paint Factory from Timber in Rural Germany
A modular CLT headquarters for Hemmelrath Technologies in Erlenbach am Main treats industrial architecture as a design-to-disassemble proposition.
Lousinha Arquitectos Resurrects a Storied 19th-Century Beach Club as Housing in Praia da Granja
A building that once hosted Portuguese royalty and literary giants returns to life through anastylosis and a bold diagrid steel veil.
BoX: Modular Furniture Design for Small Spaces
A flexible modular furniture system that transforms compact spaces through adaptable geometry, precision detailing, and minimal material use.
One Square Block: Tetris-Inspired Modular Housing for Budget-Conscious Urban Living
Sixteen modular blocks, five unit types, and a shared amenity core give young professionals the autonomy to build only the home they need.
Framework: A Modular Housing System That Grows With Its Residents
Anna Szczepaniak proposes an expandable residential framework where inhabitants assemble their own flats within a shared structural grid.
FarModular: A Modular Market That Grows, Shrinks, and Feeds the City
Beyzanur Özdemir's shortlisted competition entry rethinks urban marketplaces as prefabricated, demountable systems tied to agriculture.
Tetris: A Modular Park Where Visitors Build the Space They Need
Fachwerk-inspired path grids and mobile wooden modules let an intergenerational community reshape four activity zones at will.
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.
Octa-Tower: Modular Housing Designed to Never Expire
A shortlisted plug-in housing system uses stackable hexagonal modules and steel wedge connections to keep Seattle neighborhoods growing.
Plugin Housing: Dodecahedron Modules Tackle Hong Kong's Density Crisis
A geometry-driven prefabricated housing system stacks twelve-faced modules on vertical cores to rethink dense urban living in Hong Kong.