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Temporary Dwelling

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56 projects

jukta

SELF SAFE MODULAR HOUSE

A self-safe modular house is a disaster-resilient housing unit made from prefabricated modules that are easy to assemble, repair, and expand. It is designed to provide safe shelter during floods, cyclones, and earthquakes using local, sustainable materials. The house is affordable, adaptable, and suitable for vulnerable communities in disaster-prone areas .

Pranjal

AABHAS -a sense of home

They build our cities, yet live without a place in them.This project reimagines housing for migrant workers-not as shelter, but as dignity. Modular, mobile, and co-created, it moves with them, grows with them, and uplifts their families with creche, workshops, and safe spaces.A home that respects culture, empowers women, and builds community.

Sakib

In Transition: DR Shelters for Community Recovery

"In Transition: Adaptive DR Shelters for Dense Urban Community Recovery" aims to address the vulnerability of Old Dhaka communities to disasters by proposing T-shelters on a playground for 6 months to 2 years. These shelters, intended for temporary use, require quick installation with readily available materials to help the affected recover quickly.

Nicodesign

M-Nasti

The idea of the project is to create a residential building where people can live and have a green house to production of their own fruit and vegetables. With solar panels, recycled water supply and greenhouses, this design is efficient and sustainable enough to support its inhabitants for long periods of time.

Pallabi

Revitalization of Indigenous Munda Community Throu

Mundas are one of Bangladesh's major forest-based tribes having a distinct indigenous way of living.The Munda people originated in India, travelled to Bangladesh around 300 years ago and have been living here ever since. The majority of them settled in Bangladesh's south-west region, the ecological zone of the Sundarbans. Living in this country's one of the

Cason and Yalda

INTERLOCK

An understanding of modularity within emergency housing is pursued at a scale to house hundreds of people with the potential to morph and grow through demand. Adaptability is put into question as the needs through disaster change depending on the circumstances, to which a modular design of easy assembly is pursued to communicate safety and retreat.

LIU

Nomad

It should reflect on the perfection, real, equal, super, people will reflect on themselves, and will find that the self-study will re-examine the perspective of self-seeking problems, give up some observance, ignorant ideas, courtesy Traditional virtues such as mutual assistance, respecting the old, love the young, love the environment

LIU

nomad1

My favorite was the projection-screen, which was hidden in the ceiling of the bedroom. Put it down, I could be watching the movie, lying on the floor the living-room. The more magical was that through the transformation of internal furniture, it could meet a multi-port life demand. It was comparable to a traditional three-bedroom housing-type.

Leonid

NOMAD

The mobile home consists of two main elements: a stationary unit with an area of 10 sq.m. and a block with wall panels in three sizes. The wall panels are pulled out in three pieces from each of the two sides of the stationary block and having a width of 1 m. in the extended state together with the stationary block, form a house with an area of 36 sq.m.

John

SCISSORS House: Nomadic HOMES

EVERY GOOD ARCHITECTURE SHOULD TELLS A STORY. OURS IS STORY OF FORM, FUNCTION AND CULTURE OF A PEOPLE. This gave birth to a User-centric, Eco-Responsive and Culture-Conscious Prototype.

Adriane

Crumple

This project investigates the housing crisis in Dadaab camp in Kenya. The manifesto in which the geometry reidentify the process of inhabitable foldable tensile structure. This manifold creates a three-dimensional space that allow refugees to designate their own spaces based on their own needs.

mehran and Saba

Pocket Home

“In search of lost spaces” Architectural activism against non-places. Home is a concept before it goes to be a shelter for humans. This concept makes borders and defines the metaphysical presence of humans with its environment. In this competition, our team tried to redefine these boundaries and understand how urban life has shifted these borders over time