Residential Building
Residential building design exploring housing typologies, construction methods, and community-focused living spaces.
Hopscotch Housing: A Children's Chalk Game Redrawn as a Village of Squares
A field of mismatched squares turns a playground game into a plan for shared, sheltered living, where courtyards grow out of the gaps between rooms.
Rebirth of the Chinese Quadrangle Dwellings: Courtyard Living Rebuilt as Stacked Hexagonal Towers
Hexagonal housing cells stack into waterfront towers capped with gardens, rethinking the courtyard house for a post-epidemic, zero-commute community.
Cloud Vally House: A Safe House That Lifts Itself Up So the Neighbourhood Can Move In Underneath
A raised residential block frees its ground plane for public life, treating community activity as a resource for the children who live above.
Living Hallow: Interwoven Futures: A Settlement That Grows Its Own Building Material
A Johannesburg proposal plants fibrous crops to heal its ground, then imagines homes, courtyards and public spaces built from what it harvests.
atelier iso Designs and Builds a Timber House on a Long-Vacant Corner Plot in the Village of La Claye
In La Bretonnière-la-Claye, a 79 m² timber house fills a long-empty village corner, borrowing local gables and stone walls without imitating them.
Patchwork Architecture Lifts a Steel Roof over a Courtyard House for Camping in Abel Tasman's Native Bush
On the edge of Abel Tasman National Park in Awaroa, a 110 m² off-grid holiday house sets timber rooms around a courtyard under one barged-in steel roof.
Chaoffice Shelters a Terracotta Family House Beneath Old Beijing Trees and a Faceted Timber Roof
In Beijing, Chaoffice's 438 m² terracotta house folds kitchen, dining and a double-height living room around mature trees and a garden courtyard.
Genovesi Arquitectos Wraps a San Rafael House Around Stone-Walled Courtyards and Board-Formed Concrete
In San Rafael, Mendoza, a 450 m² infill house uses fieldstone walls, planted light wells and timber to stage a slow walk from street to living room.
23 SUL Digs Down and Opens Up a São Paulo House Instead of Stacking a Second Story on Top
In São Paulo, 23 SUL exposes timber trusses, strips old brick and excavates a meter into the ground to grow a one-story house without adding a floor.
Melina Romano Carries Rural São Paulo Indoors at Otto Felix's Damata House in Itatiba
In rural Itatiba, Brazil, reed ceilings, rammed earth and regional furniture carry the countryside's material language through an 880 m² house.
Architects Collaborative Stacks a Seven-Level House onto an Irregular 270 m² Plot in New Delhi
In New Delhi, The House of Thirds turns a skewed five-sided plot into a seven-level home of sunken courts, timber shutters and carved daylight.
CM Design Docks a Corrugated Steel Box beside a Vernacular Brick House in a Dongguan Village
In Dafeng Village, Dongguan, a 109 m² renovation pairs rammed earth rooms and family memory with a metal annex, spiral stair and shared courtyard.
