Plugin Housing
Residential projects that integrate living spaces with work, community, or commercial functions into single structures.
Plug & Play Amsterdam: A Steel Shelf Where Stages, Domes and Homes Slot In and Out
An open steel frame in Amsterdam holds apartments, an orange auditorium and a glass dome, turning a housing block into a stage that opens to its lawn
Atelier FCJZ Builds Four Houses That Blur Classicism and Modernism at a Ningbo Lakeside Campus
Conceived in the 1990s and realized three decades later, four board-formed concrete studio-houses sit among autumn trees beside Dongqian Lake.
Esquissos Splits a Sintra Hillside into Three Houses That Disappear into Their Landscape
Three isolated white gabled volumes in Sintra, Portugal step down a slope, using concrete terraces and timber to blur the line between house and garden.
HEIMA Architects Scatters Four Oak-Shingled Pavilions Among the Pines of Northern Lithuania
A 150-square-meter guest house on a Lithuanian hilltop splits into four volumes to preserve every tree on the site.
AUN Design Studio Folds an Origami Staircase Through a Multi-Generational Bangkok Home
In Lat Phrao, a 182-square-meter concrete house reunites a mother and son through shared gardens and a sculptural steel core.
D and P Associates Build a Pi-Shaped House of Rammed Earth Memory on Vietnam's Red River
A 640-square-metre residence in Ngoc Thuy channels the pisé wall traditions of Vietnam's northern highlands into a riverfront family home.
Cuatro Cero Cuatro Arquitectura Lines Up Five Identical Beach Houses on Peru's Northern Coast
In Zorritos, five friends split a narrow beachfront lot into a modular housing complex tuned to equatorial sun and Pacific breezes.
Heim Balp Architekten and Pablo Pita Arquitectos Revive a Porto Workers' Village as 40 Hospitality Units
A labyrinthine 19th-century working-class 'ilha' in central Porto finds new clarity through subtraction, oak, and a muted grey palette.
Mikael Bergquist Builds a Boat-Access-Only Retreat for Two Artists on a Stockholm Archipelago Island
On the island of Nämdö, a farmhouse-inspired timber cabin ages alongside the Swedish landscape it inhabits.
Tina Bergman Tucks a Timber Cabin Shaped Like a Fairytale Hat into a Swedish Birch Forest
A 95-square-metre family retreat near Tänndalen borrows its silhouette from a Swedish children's story and its materials from the mountain landscape.
Matsuyama Architect and Associates Shelters an Elderly Couple Under a Single Roof Canopy in Amami
A 138-square-meter steel-and-concrete house on a subtropical hilltop protects two weavers from typhoons while framing open valley views.
Leo Romano Stacks Two Concrete Monoliths Over a Forest Canopy in Goiânia
TP House pairs raw concrete volumes with warm timber screens, cascading down a lush hillside in Jardins Munique, Brazil.
