Modular Building
Architectural systems designed from repeatable units that can be combined, reconfigured, and scaled to meet changing needs.
Second Breath of Montserrat: Modular Architecture for a Creative Caribbean Retreat
A modular architecture vision for Montserrat where music, ocean, community, and adaptable island living converge in a new creative rhythm.
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.
Modular Wooden School System by OMA and Circlewood Transforming Sustainable Education Architecture in Amsterdam
OMA and Circlewood create modular timber schools in Amsterdam using circular construction, flexible design, and sustainable materials for adaptable future education environments.
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.
Beyond the Game: Adaptive Stadium Architecture
Exploring Modular Design Strategies to Prevent Underuse and Enable Post-Event Versatility
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.
The Plug-In House: LEGO-Inspired Modular Housing for Dense Urban Futures
A shortlisted prefabricated housing prototype where crane-assembled living units snap into a structural core like building blocks.
