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Plug-In House

Modular and adaptable housing designs that respond to changing needs, environments, and spatial constraints.

24 Projects 2 Publications 60 Journals

Provat

PLUGGED-IN LIVING Sustainable Urban Solutions through Vertical Expansion and Modular Housing

Plugged-In Living is an adaptive high-rise housing system for Dhaka using modular plug-in/plug-out apartments linked to a central service core. It enables flexible expansion and reconfiguration as families change. Located in Vatara, it integrates transit-oriented planning, climate response, and personalization of living spaces for resilient urban living.

Thanos

PLUG-IN HOSTEL

THE WHOLE BUILDING IS ‘‘LOOKED AFTER’’ BY THE AI THAT IS INTEGRATED WITHIN EACH ROOM AND PUBLIC AMENITIES, COLLECTING DATA, PROCESSING AND SUGGESTING NEW ACTIVITIES AND SPACES THAT COULD HELP WITH THE INTEGRATION OF THE NEW-COMERS + CREATE A SELF SUSTAINED ENVIRONMENT

Anastasia and 2 others

Plug n’ Play

In the Plug n’ Play building, human working spaces are provided in pods that can move throughout the volume of the building and attach to any of the needed stationary/immovable facilities as needed. The building is purely a structural grid, affording 3d circulation of pods and stationary supporting spaces.

Vojko

HOUSE OF JAZZ

How to combine jazz composition and improvisation and integrate it into the creative process of building design? This abstract transformation of musical vibration, along with materials related to the Bronx tradition (brick & metal), is recognized as a universal design principle that gives the building a timeless image.

ALİ and ozlem

An Urban Infill: Echo-Morphism

All cities have different dynamics in terms of their urban plans, streets, and even the functions of each area.In the development process of the Echo-morphism, we search for new methods that can regain those abandoned in-between spaces to the city by using the reflections of each town and culture itself.

Mikolaj and 3 others

Transformation House

Architecture focusing on a path of creation process. A 500 squered meter residential house project for a musician.

Kurosh

Oudlajan plugin Houses

This project is designed to be located in one of the Tehran?s most primitive regions, O?dlajan. This worn-out urban texture was the inspiration to consider this site as a context of renovation alongside respecting the identity and cultural heritage of the surroundings. Our designed building contains 87 residential units to and from which we can add more

Gregory and Willver

Plug-In View

Plug-In View is a plugin housing design that aims towards plugging in new elements to existing parking garage structures. Each plugin residential unit is prefabricated to actually "plug-in" between the existing column spacing in a parking garage.

Sena Neşem and 4 others

Co-Hub

Co-Hub users are free to choose the way they live in terms of interaction. They may choose to live in a range from individualistic to collective. By getting the users involved in the daily loop, Co-Hub provides unity to operate the hub itself. Considering its form, Co-Hub is designed to be replicable and easily adaptable to various lots around the globe.

Nischay Pardeshi and Ashutosh

The Circle Completing

It's about understanding from where we started and acceptance of nature in to our life without any special efforts, in built with technology.

Prachi and Isha

Plug and Spread

In the 21st century alone, natural disasters have killed over 600,000 people, and have left even more homeless according to UNISDR. The Plug House is derived based on the logic of deconstructing and simplifying the core spaces of the house and a study of the vernacular housing of Kerala.

Ellen and 4 others

OCTA-TOWER

Our proposal focuses on the prevention of expiration in architecture. Through the arrangement of modular slices, we have created dwelling units that can be updated or replaced individually throughout time. These units can be connected and stacked to adapt and grow into a large structure. We have fully designed one unit in detail to represent our proposal.