Student Housing
Design and planning of residential spaces for students, from individual units to large-scale housing complexes.
The Home: A Red Glass Cone Turns a Quiet Concrete Block into a Living Room for Students Abroad
A community center for international students that keeps its gray face to the river and saves its warmth for a red, tree-filled atrium at the back.
Hardel Le Bihan Architectes Houses 10,000 Dakar Students Behind Wind-Tuned Terracotta Moucharabieh Screens
At Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, sixteen slim dormitory bars lean on orientation, night ventilation and patterned screens for comfort.
Let's Tessellate: Amsterdam Student Housing That Gives Its Ground Plane Back to the City
A faceted hostel for international students divides its mass to free a public plaza, threading cycling, cafés and event space beneath stacked rooms.
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.
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.
HEIMA Architects Scatters Four Oak-Shingled Pavilions Among the Pines of Northern Lithuania
A 150-square-meter guest house on a Lithuanian hilltop splits into four volumes to preserve every tree on the site.
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.
VEIVE Architects Builds a Mountain Hostel That Disappears into a Hangzhou Hillside
On the Huihang Ancient Trail in Xiangjian Village, a shelter of wood, steel, and rammed earth roots itself in the rural landscape.
Arquitectos Aliados Converts a Porto Factory into a Hotel Where Music Sets the Tempo
A 1980s electrical components factory in Porto becomes 62 hotel apartments organized around courtyards, gardens, and a 300-capacity concert hall.
MVRDV and Studio Archohm Wrap 437 Apartments Around a Courtyard the Size of Two Football Fields
Oranje Castle in Lucknow rethinks Indian group housing with a brick perimeter block, terraced silhouettes, and a landscape inspired by Anish Kapoor.
Atelier Kaiser Shen Designs a Dormitory in Southern Germany That Expects to Be Changed
A CLT and steel hybrid in Schönaich treats flexibility not as a buzzword but as a structural principle for social housing.
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.
