Housing

Una casa per medici nel villaggio maasai di Maji Moto, Tanzania. A doctor's house in Maji Moto maasai village, Tanzania

“Alto e largo quanto un uomo con le braccia aperte, il quadrato sta, nelle più antiche scritture e nelle incisioni rupestri dei primi uomini a significare l’idea di recinto, di casa, di paese. “ Bruno Munari “As tall and wide as a man standing with open a

The canal area in Brussels is famous for its industrial heritage, but today we are witnessing the integration of housing units within this urban fabric. On the former site of the BPost building, Stephane Beel developed a master plan for a vierdeel. Toward

THE HOUSE FOR A CRAFTSMAN The Avala House is a residence situated in a pastural landscape on Avala mountain near Belgrade in Serbia. The house is a case study on how design effort can turn sufficiency into a desirable form for living. The open frame The h

The original bungalow was built by a social housing organization called

Centuries ago this park and its villa formed part of a hamlet called Klingelbeek. In the early part of the twentieth century the villa was turned into a monastry. An allotment garden, a ruin and natural pond remains to to this day and forms part of the ne

In the context of the Rüttenersch housing estate of same-style houses, this building was planned in 1929 by architect Wilhelm Fleisch on behalf of the city of Dornbirn. It was extended to the north garden side in 1935 by the Cartellieri family by an extra

The Antwerp Education Council project is a leading example of sustainable design in several areas: The project concerns the conversion of an existing building. This was stripped down to the concrete structure. A new, highly energy-efficient facade was the

Made up of several constituent parts, this building mediates at the joint between the hetero- geneous block perimeter development with its typical fire walls and the large, meandering late modern structures dating from the Sixties and Seventies. The new b

A townhouse is entirely renovated for a new composed family. Only the front part is preserved. A relatively heavy programme and a north-facing rear facade require a well-considered compact stacking. The classic dark core is lit up by means of a void. A co

More compact living is necessary. Including in the suburbs. A plot on which there used to be a single-family house is divided into 2 plots. Within the austere constraints of the municipality's regulations, we strive to create architecture that is modest a

Japanese studio Takeru Shoji Architects has completed Hara House, a village home designed to look like a tent.

A simple gabled form glad in corrugated metal encloses a porous series of internal and exterior spaces at this house near Tsukimiyama Station in Kobe by Tato Architects.

Peter Besley - Couldrey House, Brisbane 2020. Photos © Rory Gardiner. [[MORE]]

A charming, small-scale house wins Sweden’s oldest and most prestigious architecture award, beating out Bjarke Ingels Group and Wingårdhs.

A typical Swedish soldier’s cottage from the mid-nineteenth century, unfortunately with rot in the entire frame, was replaced by a new house with the same placement, footprint, volume and materials—a memory of the old. The ground floor maintains the origi

The process of La Borda begins in 2012 in the framework of the campaign to reclaim the brown site of Can Batlló, where a group of neighbors decides to self-organize to solve collectively the need for access to housing. This small group started the impleme

A design was made for an urban renewal area in the Hague Moerwijk district. It forms an ensemble of housing around a characteristic church, a monastery and a fraternity, built in the Bossche School architecture of the famous Van der Laan family. From this

The place: At the top of a mountain, in the Calandaíma river valley, it found La Cascajosa, a recreational house 2 hours away from Bogotá.

There are 2 main aspects of this project. The first one is reshaping the typicaly structured space arrangement of the apartment, originally from the 1950s, with the intention of creating a multipurpose living space for a young family, that would put an em

The plot geometry and its small size, 47m2, assume special importance in the typology and form of programmatic distribution. One program per floor: Floor 0 - studio, Floor 1 - Living and dining, Floor 2 - Sleeping area and Floor 3 – Roff top. The entrance