Shelter
Architecture and design solutions for temporary and permanent shelter, from emergency housing to adaptive community spaces.
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.
Animal Harbor: Rethinking the Shelter as a Civic Landscape in Bucharest
A sprawling complex of curved volumes, planted courtyards, and public programs repositions the animal shelter as a social destination.
ADAPOST VAGABOND: Rethinking Animal Shelter Design Around Trust, Choice, and Adoption
ADAPOST VAGABOND rethinks animal shelter design through courtyards, staggered kennels, nature trails, and spaces building trust and adoption
DIGS: Rethinking Animal Shelter Design Through Luxury, Freedom and Human-Animal Connection
DIGS reshapes animal shelter design by merging luxury hospitality with humane housing, giving strays comfort, freedom, care, and connection.
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: Adaptive Reuse Architecture for a New Future in Skid Row
Reimagining future parking through adaptive reuse architecture, The Sheltering Centre transforms urban infrastructure into a pathway to new life.
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.
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.
Pedro Moncayo Torres Builds a Primitive Hut from Stone and Reed Cane in Ecuador's Southern Highlands
A 175-square-meter farmstead retreat in Tarqui channels vernacular construction to sit quietly inside an endemic forest.
Gimme Shelter Solutions Plants a Modular Self-Build Prototype in a Swedish Forest
On the island of Väddö, architect Emelie Holmberg fuses barn vernacular and Japanese minimalism into a 40 m² expandable woodland dwelling.
Francois Brugel and Atelier RITA Convert a Parisian Military Bakery into a 438-Bed Emergency Shelter
A former armed forces bakery on a decommissioned barracks site near the gates of Paris becomes a dignified refuge for nearly 450 people.
