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The Hirtenweg project is the result of a total contractor competition for affordable housing that was initiated by the public developer, Immobilien Basel-Stadt, in 2018. The new buildings at Hirtenweg integrate existing conditions - residential scale, nat

Two point buildings offset from one another allow outlooks and perspectives The green residential area is characterized by mostly small-scale buildings and a permeable and open settlement structure. The project with two four-storey, compact buildings is

HHF has transformed a neglected courtyard with firewalls and parking spaces into 15 apartments and surrounding lush gardens. By combining “left-over” square meters of three existing parcels the project shows densification potentials by reclaiming seemingl

The Spaarndammerhart restores the urban fabric to the Spaarndammer neighbourhood. The street that disappeared in the 1970s for the construction of the local school, Spaarndammerschool, has been restored. The plan also brings back two street walls and adds

The Town House is located in the central street Lederergasse - a livable, quiet street that connects Linz's main square, via the tobacco factory, with the port. The existing building – its basic substance from the 16th century – has been renovated and exp

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El proyecto se inicia a raíz de una convocatoria pública del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona para la cesión de uso del solar ubicado en el barrio de la Marina del Prat Vermell calificado como VPO con derecho de superficie en favor de cooperativas de vivienda du

Twelve houses is a block with town houses in Sorgenfri, the oldest industrial area in Malmö. The neighbourhood grew out of old farming areas along the railroad leading south – eight blocks the size of Malmös city centre. Today the area is characterised by

La Balma is a project promoted by Sostre Cívic, which was the winner to develop a plot in the Poblenou neighborhood in the first public tender for leasehold of land for cooperative housing. The project seeks to expand the stock of non-speculative and aff

On the edge of the historic city centre of Utrecht, tucked away between the railway tracks and the Tweede Daalsebuurt, the former Werkspoor terrain can be found. The Wisselspoor neighbourhood is part of the larger transformation of the Werkspoor area into

Balconies fan out like leaves from the mixed-use L'Arbre Blanc tower, which Sou Fujimoto has completed in Montpellier with Nicolas Laisné, Dimitri Roussel and OXO Architectes.

Located between Ghent's inner ring road and a nature reserve, the request was to replace an decayed residential block with 44 ground-level homes. However, the structure of this building still has great potential. It is proposed to thoroughly renovate and

A multi-family building with five apartments and two commercial spaces located in the Poblenou neighborhood, in Barcelona. The project, located on a corner lot with irregular geometry, is solved by placing the cylindrical vertical communications core in t

ROOM WITH VIEW What do you see? I see the air full of ideas, the trees undulating, the inhabited void, the boundaries evaporating, the city and its blocks, the dawn, the day, the twilight and the night, the images scrolling by, the garden in the center, t

The place is an old work yard, typical for Basel and the quarter. It is one of the few city blocks that has never been completely closed by buildings in the course of its history. This encouraged us to let the building, as it were, peep out of the courtya

The 40 subsidised housings are divided over 2 oblong volumes that are oriented from the north to the south, resulting in an east-west orientation for the housings themselves. The small low volume is four-storey high and holds 8 duplex flats with private g

With its thoughtful design, Blok N adds high quality social housing to the heritage listed Jeruzalem neighbourhood. We wanted to give a new view on social housing, one focused on high quality and adding an unexpected layer of beauty.
 Blok N completes the

This housing project is part of a new neighbourhood on the site of a former barracks. The master plan of the Bayernkaserne is conceived as an orthogonal grid, defining an urban landscape of large blocks. The building is organised around a garden and has a

“San Riemo” is the first housing project realised by the KOOPERATIVE GROSSSTADT, a housing cooperative founded in 2015. The building, located on the outskirts of Munich close to its trade fair, was completed in December 2020. It contains 27 flats as well

The program —mixing social and free market housing in coexistence and without differences—demands practically the consumption of the available building volume. This constraint, together with the demands for efficiency and simplicity that we impose on ours

This house, located in the city of Ghent, was developed in order to provide a generous and spacious family home on a very narrow plot. The various residential functions are stacked in split levels around a central staircase. This strengthens the relation

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Beirut is a permanent archeology. Buried 7 times through the ages, the city tells the story of our ancestors. Currently, its built landscape reflects its recent history. Ruined buildings invaded by wilderness juxtaposed with red tiled roofed traditional h

«XLM» is a hotel project located 2500 meters above sea level, in Graubünden - Switzerland, in a lost and immaculate rocky landscape. The ideals of the«Utopia» become the generating force for the project, which finds its architectural translation through

The old building is hidden in the city centre. It has three levels, three entrance doors and a distorted outline. Each floor suggests a different spatial logic but shares the same language, the same materiality and the same set of banal elements. The gro

The uniqueness of this project lies in the site’s double frontage, allowing the program to be spread between two towers: each has a main façade, looking onto Barranca del Muerto and José María Ibarrarán streets. Inside, a space contains the vertical circu

URBAN PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE
The project is located in the heart of the Boveresses district in the north of Lausanne. This district is composed of several emblematic housing complexes from the 1970s. The project aims at an integration in this context w