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Modular Building

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Modular building approaches break down structures into standardized components that assemble into complete buildings. This method enables flexibility in design, faster construction, and the ability to adapt spaces as requirements evolve.

The community explores modular systems across residential complexes, educational facilities, and temporary structures, examining how repeated units create neighborhoods and communities that grow with inhabitants. Work ranges from timber-based school systems and container housing to pavilions and apartment buildings that demonstrate the practical and spatial possibilities of modular assembly.

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UNI Editorial31 works

Ninad Rewatkar2 works

Genc Blakaj2 works

sara and 3 others

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OUD'LAJAN RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX

This project focuses on creating prefabricated compact and modular houses which can be affordable by the greatest number of people. Not only providing all the basic needs in the best way possible, but also devoting the whole concentration to the enhancement of common and private areas by taking sustainability, customization and optimization into account.

azade and 2 others

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Neighbourhoods that can grow with its inhabitants

To meet the demands of the competition, which was to design a neighbourhoods with the ability to grow with the inhabitants, we were looking for a plan that could meet the cultural, social, climatic and sustainable development needs.

Lynus

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Iridescence

A marriage of sustainable materials with modern fabrication technologies, the pavilion features two rejuvenating zones that appeal to different demographics. Regardless of zone, the form is perforated to create an enchanting dialogue between dark and light, night and day.

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Compact library run by the community

A modern library has to be more than an information storage, but a new place of unity and development for the community.

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.

seyed ebrahim

ABADGAR

Take a moving box, take it apart, give a function to each side, and create the desired layout for the next chapter of your life, and change it it when it needs to be refreshed.This idea is realized by “using 3d-printers and modular wall-to-wall construction”, which can have a great impact on the construction of high-speed post-earthquake housing.

UNI Editorial

publishedResults18 hours ago

The Student Center As A Modular Space: A Timber Grid That Behaves Like a Street in Amsterdam

Shortlisted at Overseas Oasis 2020, a stacked wooden frame holds cafés, shops, studios and terraces in parts that can serve shifting demands.

Educational Building

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedResults6 days ago

Free modular unit: Timber-Framed Boxes That Divide a Site into Fixed and Shifting Ground

A kit of cut, rotated and spliced units lets people find their own place in space, sorting a large site into permanent rooms and movable terraces.

Modular Furniture

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

PLUG arquitectura modular Lifts a Modular Panel House above the Grasslands of Chapadmalal

In Chapadmalal on the Buenos Aires coast, a 124 m² house of panels and repeated bays turns a grassy plot into a case for modular living.

Residential Building

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

Supra-Simplicities Builds a Modular Steel House for a Retired Mother at the End of a Kaohsiung Alley

In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a prefabricated steel grid replaces an aging concrete home and borrows a school sports field as its main outlook.

Residential Building

Educational Building