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Residential – Public Housing

stand together

Project Location: Africa & Arab States
Building Type: Temporary Shelter, Residential – Public Housing, Residential – Multi-Family Low Rise, Homeless Shelter, Emergency Shelter, …
Project Descripton: Designing a shelter is quite complex. Conditions can differ from hot to cold, from mountainous to flat and from dry to wet. Disasters don't discriminate, it could happen anywhere, in remote areas, as well as in cities, to anyone, families as....

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architect-implemented and resident self-constructed dwellings in unfinished building ruins in Caracas, Venezuela.

Project Location: Caracas, Caraca, Venezuela
Building Type: Retail – Multiple Occupancy, Residential – Public Housing, Residential – Mixed Development, Cultural Display, Community Center, …
Project Descripton: This project aims to decrease the need for affordable housing by allowing potential residents the ability to self-construct dwellings in unfinished building ruins. The construction ruin depicted in this project is located in the center of Caracas,....

m-ch : micro compact home

Project Location: Munich, Germany
Building Type: Residential – Public Housing
Project Descripton:
OUR DESIGN OBJECTIVES

The team of researchers and designers based in London and at the Technical University in Munich developed the m-ch as an answer to an increasing demand for short stay living for students, business people, sports....

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+ WATER Project for Benzu, Ceuta

Residential – Public Housing | Spain

Project Location: Benzu, Ceuta, Spain
Building Type: Residential – Public Housing
Project Descripton: Through an environmental housing programme based on water and energy self-sufficiency, the entire Benzu area is developed in harmonious coexistence with the surrounding landscape. Thus, public land, infrastructure and urban services respond to the....

Vakabauta: Sustainable housing in Fiji

Project Location: Suva, Fiji
Building Type: Residential – Public Housing
Project Descripton: Fiji is the economic capital of the South Pacific, centrally located within the region it is a multi-racial and multi-cultural society. It’s capital Suva is the largest urban area in the South Pacific outside of Australia and New Zealand and like....

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Bangkok: housing on the margins

Project Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Building Type: Residential – Public Housing
Project Descripton: This project is an extension of a semester of research on Thai culture, architecture, and relief for the poor, as well as an August 2006 trip to Thailand to gather information from academics, practitioners, and locals on how to best approach housing....

Portable Transient Shelter Pods

Project Location: Philippines, Asia & Pacific
Building Type: Emergency Shelter, Homeless Shelter, Residential – 1 BR, Residential – Public Housing, Temporary Shelter, …
Project Descripton: The pods are proposed to be modular structures that can be transported through existing transportation systems of adaptive re-use buildings. These are meant to be assembled by the user, saving on construction costs. The modular design provides....

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