Portable Shelter
Temporary and mobile structures designed for emergency response, displacement, and adaptive living situations.
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.
A Shelter Made of Scaffolding: Reversible Architecture for Pilgrim Gatherings
Yuechuan Jin reimagines construction scaffolding as a reusable, adaptable structural system for temporary pilgrim accommodation.
Temporary Home for Dogs: A Reversed Zoo Rethinks Animal Shelter Architecture
In Bucharest, a sinuous corridor and freed landscape flip the logic of containment, designing a shelter that works to make itself unnecessary.
Adapost Vagabond: Architecture That Sequences Empathy in Animal Shelter Design
A shelter for stray dogs organized around graduated encounters, courtyard zones, and a circulation strategy that prioritizes older animals.
Ardalan Shelter: Computational Form Finding for an Adaptive Kinetic Structure
A multi-objective design study integrating environmental data, evolutionary algorithms, kinetic systems, and responsive architecture
The Sheltering Centre: A Skid Row Parking Tower Where People, Not Cars, Are Given Shelter
A People's Choice entry to Parkx that keeps parking at the base and stacks shelter, hygiene and assistance above it, steps from Skid Row.
Mallol Builds a Cedar Ark on the Misty Slopes of Panama's Volcán Barú
A 220-square-meter timber pavilion in the Chiriquí highlands wraps around a boulder, a river, and the rituals of cloud forest life.
Casey Brown Architecture Refines the A-Frame Cabin to Its Essentials on an Australian Sheep Farm
Permanent Camping 3 drops two Corten-clad shelters onto rolling pastureland outside Orange, NSW, distilling rural living to its core.
Paulo Moreira Turns Recycled Steel Drums into Dignified Safety Shelters for South African Volunteers
In Stjwetla, a Johannesburg settlement plagued by crime, two 50 m² prototypes reframe the guard hut as civic architecture.
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.
gru.a Wraps a 20-Square-Meter Fitness Shelter in Bamboo and Polycarbonate at Petrópolis
A barrel-vaulted canopy in the Brazilian highlands grafts new materials onto a eucalyptus soccer-field frame to create a place for exercise.
gru.a Builds a 70 m² Timber Shelter That Opens Like a Farm Door in Brazil's Valley of the Vines
In the mountainous region near Rio de Janeiro, a compact retreat uses plywood panels and deep eaves to blur the line between inside and out.
