Youth housing
Housing design and community spaces created for young people, including shared living, transitional housing, and purpose-built residential schemes.
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.
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.
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.
Matsuyama Architect and Associates Shelters an Elderly Couple Under a Single Roof Canopy in Amami
A 138-square-meter steel-and-concrete house on a subtropical hilltop protects two weavers from typhoons while framing open valley views.
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.
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.
Ramdam Architectes and palast Build 81 Homes from Prefabricated Hempcrete in a Nantes Barracks
A former military compound in central Nantes becomes a residential hamlet built with hemp-lime walls and a timber frame structure.
Studio RE + N Turn a Forgotten Rooftop Between Housing Blocks into a Red Steel Commons
In Songyang County, a cracked second-floor platform becomes a vibrant public stage for 1,300 square meters of play, sport, and gathering.
L. McComber Converts a Contaminated Lachine Tavern into 18 Units of Permanent Housing
Place Tenaquip rebuilds a long-abandoned corner tavern in Montreal as dignified brick housing for residents leaving homelessness.
ABC Studio Wraps 20 Senior Housing Units in Glazed Balconies on Nancy's Haut-du-Lièvre Plateau
A concrete social housing block in Maxéville, France, gives every senior resident a glassed-in outdoor room with panoramic views.
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.
