Slumscraper
Architecture and design interventions in informal settlements and working-class urban neighborhoods.
Slum Autonomy - A Paradox: A Balcony That Gives Rehoused Slum Dwellers Back Their Own Way of Using Space
A bamboo-railed balcony for rehabilitated slum housing in India turns loose wooden planks into seats, beds, shelves and a corner for worship.
Heim Balp Architekten and Pablo Pita Arquitectos Revive a Porto Workers' Village as 40 Hospitality Units
A labyrinthine 19th-century working-class 'ilha' in central Porto finds new clarity through subtraction, oak, and a muted grey palette.
Studio McW Turns a Narrow Clapham Terrace into a Raw Concrete Framework for Family Life
A Victorian terraced house in south London is gutted and rebuilt around an exposed concrete skeleton that redefines every room.
O.U.V.R.A.G.E.S Converts a Brussels Neighborhood Restaurant into Adaptable Housing
In Watermael-Boitsfort, a former restaurant becomes a set of evolving dwellings that grow with their inhabitants over time.
SL House by AE-architecten: Transforming a Family Home in Ghent
SL House by AE-architecten transforms a 20th-century Ghent home into a flexible, light-filled family residence with contemporary interventions.
Container Skyscraper at Dharavi: Recycled Shipping Containers Stacked into Vertical Affordable Housing
A hybrid concrete and steel frame holds modular shipping container homes above Dharavi, freeing the ground for markets and shared community life.
SKLON: A Curving Climatic Envelope That Rethinks Youth Housing in Moscow
Bioclimatic geometry meets communal living as a sculptural arc deflects wind, captures light, and redefines the urban hostel typology.
Sliding House: Modular Architecture That Transforms Daycare by Day into Housing by Night
A multigenerational building in Bremen where sliding modules convert private living quarters into kindergarten spaces each morning.
Skyscraper of Life: Modular Adaptive Reuse Turns Warsaw's Dead Office District Into a Living Tower
A prefabricated, spine-mounted modular system transforms Warsaw's abandoned Mordor district into a vertical community that grows and contracts on demand.
Cliffscraper: A Skyscraper Carved from Santorini's Volcanic Cliffs
Instead of building upward with steel and concrete, this project excavates vertical living spaces from the caldera's ancient rock face.
