Modular Building
Architectural systems designed from repeatable units that can be combined, reconfigured, and scaled to meet changing needs.
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.
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.
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.
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.dfbhsetnhjsetn
PLUG arquitectura modular Lifts a 54 m² Black Cabin onto Posts Beneath the Peaks of Argentine Patagonia
In Villa Meliquina, Neuquén, a compact solar-roofed cabin in black corrugated metal and timber turns tall windows toward pines, peaks and night skies.
Symbiotic Pack: A Foldable Modular Balcony Inspired by Space Station Logic
A retrofittable balcony system that folds, connects, and redeploys along building facades to restore outdoor living in dense housing.
Dynamic Modules Shelter: A Telescopic Ring for Mountain Pilgrimage
A circular modular framework of steel, bamboo, and fabric grows vertically with demand, wrapping communal ground in adaptable shelter.
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.
Fold Bunk: A Foldable A-Frame Sleeping House for Pilgrimage Settlements
A modular dwelling that compresses into a flat transportable package and unfolds into a timber A-frame pilgrims village unit.
Modular Balconies: A Kit-of-Parts System That Lets Residents Design Their Own Outdoor Spaces
A 50 x 50 cm modular grid transforms identical balcony footprints into gardens, gyms, reading nooks, and social spaces shaped by daily life.
TOP HAT!: A Parametric Roof Truss That Gives Old Buildings New Balconies
A modular framework perches atop existing residential blocks, deploying customizable balconies, screens, and social spaces across rigid façades.
Connect: A Kit-of-Parts Playground Built by the Children Who Use It
A modular system of poles, ropes, and reclaimed materials turns refugee camp play into an act of collective construction and spatial learning.
Creative Board: A Modular Kit That Turns Refugee Settlements into Playgrounds
Standardized components cut, fold, rotate and reconnect to produce play structures, learning spaces and communal gathering environments.
In One, Many, In Many, One: A Shipping Container Becomes a Modular Play System
A travelling container carries lightweight play volumes into refugee settlements, then stays behind as a community anchor.
(UN)BOX: A 2m x 2m Module Turns Refugee Camp Scarcity into Spatial Possibility
A modular framework distributes play, learning, and community space through the congested fabric of a refugee settlement.
Reclaiming Childhood: Modular Play Architecture Designed for Refugee Camps
A 2x2x2 metre timber module that stacks, connects, and adapts to give displaced children agency over their own spaces for learning and play.
Kids Need Fun + Play: A Bamboo Kit of Parts That Lets Children Write Their Own Playground
Olivia Webb's shortlisted entry builds play from a repeatable 2 x 2 x 2 metre bamboo cube that climbs, shelters, plants and gathers as sites demand.
Play-Hive: A Hexagonal Kit That Turns a Refugee Camp Playground into an Open Classroom
In Kutupalong, repeated hexagonal cells cluster into a branching landscape where numbers, music, weaving and climbing share one spatial system.
The Main Dream: A Recycled Plastic Kit That Lets Refugee Children Build Their Own Playground
Thirty-centimetre interlocking cubes that connect on three axes turn play into construction, letting children author the spaces they occupy.
Light, Sound and Air: A Two-Metre Module That Lets Refugee Children Author Their Own Playground
A cut and rotated cube becomes cave, stage, lookout and acoustic instrument, giving children in camps a playground they can read and rewrite.
