Shelter
Architecture and design solutions for temporary and permanent shelter, from emergency housing to adaptive community spaces.
Shelter design encompasses the creation of safe, dignified spaces for diverse populations and contexts. This includes emergency response structures, permanent housing solutions, and adaptive reuse projects that address homelessness, displacement, and community needs.
The community explores innovative approaches to shelter through computational design, material experimentation, and social impact. Work ranges from kinetic adaptive structures and earthquake-resistant designs to conversions of existing buildings and low-cost construction using recycled materials.
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View all 41 journalsHome for Homelessness: A Dog Shelter Where Homeless People Become the Staff and the Residents
One looping, half-buried building houses stray dogs, homeless caretakers and a food bank, and lets arc walls decide who shares space with whom.
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: 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.