Temporary Dwelling
Housing designed for temporary or transitional occupation, from seasonal retreats to emergency shelters.
Insight Architects Builds a Riverside Deadwood Hut in Huizhou for Insects, Plants and Microbes
On the Xutian River in Huizhou, a 20 m² open shelter of salvaged riverside deadwood, stone and steel rethinks the hut as habitat for non-human life.
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.
line+ and studio Scatter Steep-Roofed Dwellings Across a Red Valley in Yunnan
In Mile, China, clustered volumes modeled on Hani mushroom houses settle into eucalyptus-covered slopes as a 940-square-meter spa retreat.
MRTN Architects Hides a Timber Retreat in the Sand Dunes of Venus Bay
A curved, elevated holiday house on Australia's South Gippsland coast borrows its logic from the local bird hides that dot the peninsula.
Mikael Bergquist Builds a Boat-Access-Only Retreat for Two Artists on a Stockholm Archipelago Island
On the island of Nämdö, a farmhouse-inspired timber cabin ages alongside the Swedish landscape it inhabits.
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.
7th Hue Architecture Collective Filters Kerala's Light Through a Compact Brick and Timber Home
At just over 2,000 square feet, The Tiny House in Kerala reimagines compact tropical living through courtyards, perforated screens, and layered volumes.
XAUAT Wraps a Rural Chinese Dwelling in Glass Bricks and Passive Climate Strategy
A renovated village house in Weinan, Shaanxi Province, fuses Guanzhong vernacular traditions with zero-carbon heating and rainwater systems.
Taller MACAA Weaves Adobe Lodging into the Sacred Valley at 3,100 Meters Above Sea Level
Dormis Donata bridges permanent and temporary inhabitation through earthen construction in the agricultural highlands of Taray, Peru.
Atelier ALL Carves Courtyards and Circular Portals into a Concrete Dwelling in Chaozhou
A board-formed concrete house on a streamside plot reinterprets the Chaoshan 'Cuò' dwelling through voids, water, and filtered light.
Abon Studio Carves a Concrete Dwelling into the Rocky Coast of Hermanus, South Africa
On a slender 15-by-40-meter site between mountain and ocean, excavated stone becomes both structure and landscape.
CTA | Creative Architects Designs Triangular Floating Shelters for Vietnam's Flood-Ravaged Communities
A timber-louvered triangular shelter rises on concrete pontoons to keep Vietnamese families safe and together when floodwaters come.
