Shophouse
Adaptive and contemporary approaches to designing shophouse typologies and row house forms.
Shophouses are mixed-use residential and commercial buildings that have shaped urban streetscapes across Asia and beyond. The typology presents distinct design challenges around density, street activation, and the integration of living and working spaces within constrained footprints.The community explores how designers reinterpret shophouse logic for contemporary contexts, from reimagining historic urban markets to testing sustainable townhouse models and folding traditional building principles into sculptural residential forms.
