Social Housing
Affordable housing design addressing community needs, displacement, and inclusive living spaces.
Actual Office Turns South London Shell Spaces into a Warm, Steel-Accented Shared Living Scheme
At Cherry Orchard, a restrained palette of pale timber, white brick, and polished steel gives communal living a sense of quiet permanence.
AQMA Builds 43 Social Housing Units Above a Future Metro Line in Nanterre
A mixed-use timber and precast concrete building at the gateway to Paris's Les Groues district negotiates infrastructure, density, and air.
Régis Roudil Wraps 46 Timber-Framed Social Housing Units into a Curved Courtyard Near Toulouse
A circular residence built from unfired earth brick and wood wool insulation anchors a new ecodistrict in Cornebarrieu, France.
SV60 Arquitectos Wraps 134 Homes Around a Green Lung in Eastern Seville
A permeable perimeter block in Sevilla Este uses cross-ventilation, ribbed metal cladding, and a shared courtyard to domesticate a heterogeneous suburb.
Arenas Basabe Palacios and Soyka/Silber/Soyka Build 65 Homes Around Servant Cores in Vienna
Born from a EUROPAN 12 win, three larch-clad residential blocks in north Vienna prioritize flexibility, light, and shared ground.
Cuatro Cero Cuatro Arquitectura Lines Up Five Identical Beach Houses on Peru's Northern Coast
In Zorritos, five friends split a narrow beachfront lot into a modular housing complex tuned to equatorial sun and Pacific breezes.
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.
Three Studios Build 200 Affordable Units for Tulum's Displaced Hospitality Workers
Casa Selva embeds dark concrete housing blocks into Yucatán rainforest, offering dignified shelter to those priced out by the tourism they serve.
Arqtipo Stacks Trapezoidal Brick Balconies into a Buenos Aires Housing Tower
Ten apartments on a narrow corner lot in Villa Urquiza use perforated brickwork as climate screen, privacy filter, and urban identity.
Spacon & X Turn a Copenhagen Film Warehouse into a 46-Unit Community Housing Experiment
On Amager island, a former film storage building becomes a colorful mixed-age coliving complex with 10 shared spaces and no private kitchens.
TAAs arquitectos Harness Madrid's Night Winds in 159 Social Housing Units
A prefabricated concrete complex in Carabanchel uses parametric courtyard networks to passively cool 22,675 square meters of public housing.
Four Studios Revive Mallorcan Sandstone and Timber to Build Social Housing in Santa Margalida
Ten public housing units on inland Mallorca prove that local materials and passive design can define a new standard for social architecture.
