Residential Building
Residential building design exploring housing typologies, construction methods, and community-focused living spaces.
Afloat: A Floating Indonesian City That Uses Shared Housing to Ease Ethnic Tension
Timber gables, fishing grids and planted islets form a water district where a common way of living becomes the ground on which neighbors meet.
Earth Made Residence: Stacking a Ghanaian Compound House into 36 Units Made Entirely of Earth
Cublo reimagines Accra's traditional compound house as a dynamic, cantilevered block that argues earthen architecture can be iconic.
Re-Coding Post War Syria: Mud Brick, Timber Frames and a Rooftop That Waits to Be Built
Two small buildings in Syria pair broken brick walls with vine-hung pergolas, betting that a community rebuilds itself by finishing what it starts.
The Home: A Red Glass Cone Turns a Quiet Concrete Block into a Living Room for Students Abroad
A community center for international students that keeps its gray face to the river and saves its warmth for a red, tree-filled atrium at the back.
Living in the Cocoon: Four Planted Domes Where Hanging Bowls Turn Strangers Into Neighbours
Perforated white shells, suspended seating pods and a shared table underground make a dwelling idea that is really about being together.
Becoming Aligned With All: A Rammed Earth Campus in Sri Lanka That Rises From the Ground and Falls Back
Two white concrete shells lift off a riverside site and land again, framing a pooled courtyard, rammed earth walls and rooms that can be reshuffled.
the house for living: A Courtyard Complex That Treats Shelter, Learning and Belonging as One Plan
Three principles of living, growth and interaction shape a white, courtyard-laced complex where homeless teenagers find a home, skills and each other.
Opera by the Sea: A Timber Sound Wave That Completes Itself in the Water Below
Nina Niavro's opera house for Estonia raises backlit timber ribs into a waveform, then lets the sea's reflection finish the drawing.
TETRO Arquitetura Splits a Bahia Hillside House into Four Blocks Beneath a Light-Filtering Wood Roof
In Itacaré, on Bahia's southern coast, four blocks step down a seaward slope while a biriba wood screen turns tropical sun into moving shade.
OAD Wraps a Riverside Holiday Home near Riga in Thatch, Charred Timber and Saturated Interior Color
A summer residence and sauna guest house on a riverbank outside Riga, Latvia, where Baltic thatch meets blue stairs and tinted glass.
Inrestudio Wraps a Three-Household Hanoi Home in a Double Skin Pierced by a Hundred Windows
Beside the Red River outside Hanoi, a terracotta double envelope turns wall thickness into desks, shelves, balconies and room for three families.
Kenta Hirayama Architect & Associates Lifts Daily Life Above an Atelier on a Pine-Lined Tokyo Street
In Kinuta, Setagaya, a 145 m² gabled house defers to its red pines and older neighbors, placing workshop and bedroom below and daily life under the roof.
