Urban Dweller
Housing, community spaces, and adaptive design strategies for contemporary urban living.
Loizou Architects and Associates Replace the Facade with a Living Green Shell in Limassol
A 360-square-meter mixed-use building in a dense Cypriot neighborhood trades its outer wall for a vertical garden of climbing vines and local plants.
Common Practice and Studio AAAN Carve a Hidden Courtyard World into Amsterdam's Narrowest Plot
Sixty-four mid-rent apartments on Oostenburgereiland turn a sliver beside a parking garage into a layered urban interior.
Teitakusubako and Yusuke Igarashi Architects Dissolve a House into the Forest Edge in Zushi
A 215 m² residence on a generous Tokyo-suburban plot uses stone, timber, and fragmented volumes to blur the line between dwelling and woodland.
MAKER Architecten Weaves Social Housing into Kortrijk's Dense Urban Fabric with Brick and Restraint
A social housing infill in Kortrijk, Belgium, negotiates between existing rooftops, rail corridors, and neighborhood memory with quiet force.
Productive Organism: Sustainable Living Habitat in Urban Peripheries
Reimagining urban peripheries through sustainable urbanism, where ecology, housing, and infrastructure evolve together as a living system.
Reconceptualizing Spaces for Future Dwelling: Modular Housing That Moves With Life
A vertical modular housing system where units expand, merge, relocate, and transform around a central core to counter urban sprawl.
Urban Oasis: A Solar-Powered Rubik's Cube That Wants to Fix City Streets
A self-charging modular kiosk draws from the Rubik's Cube to pack seating, water purification, and digital services into one compact urban unit.
Co-owning Urban Farm Community: Shared Agriculture as Urban Infrastructure
Viktoriia Slynchuk proposes a modular framework where co-owned aquaponics farms, social housing, and cultural pavilions merge into one civic ecosystem.
Urban Exchange Food: Turning Fences into Decentralized Food-Sharing Infrastructure
A shortlisted proposal reimagines urban boundaries as productive green corridors connecting neighbors through food exchange and composting.
Hidden Spaces: A Timber-Wrapped Nest for Multigenerational Living in Dense Delhi
Three floating bedroom cubes sit inside a wooden scaffolding that filters sun and privacy across five levels of compact urban life.
Theatre Lane: Vertical Dwelling Carved from Sydney's Forgotten Alleyways
A multi-generational micro dwelling reclaims a narrow service lane in inner-city Sydney by building upward between existing party walls.
Compact Houseive: Turning a Kuala Lumpur Shoplot into a Multi-Generational Vertical Home
An abandoned shoplot on Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman becomes a split-level family dwelling that stacks private retreats, shared living, and a ground-floor bus
