Collective housing

Named after a red-skinned potato variety once grown on the site, Red Emma by architecture studios Gerner Gerner Plus and AllesWirdGut connects a new residential development with the agricultural and social history of its location. The timber-hybrid housing ensemble combines environmental considerations with long-term adaptability, shared spaces, and access to greenery. The development was designed around three principles: extending the usable area of individual apartments, treating balconies as functional outdoor rooms, and activating the ground floor with a mix of community, cultural, and commercial uses.  tschinkersten fotografie Red Emma approaches sustainability through material efficiency, adaptability, reversibility, energ... More

The Urban Hive is a vertical eco-village that redefines collective housing by combining productive landscapes, resource efficiency, and shared social infrastructure. Set within a dense urban context, it responds to key challenges such as urban growth, food insecurity, and water scarcity through a self-sustaining and community-oriented living model. The project is organized as a multi-storey structure that accommodates diverse residents while maintaining a clear environmental logic. It uses low-impact materials, passive design strategies, and renewable energy systems to reduce its ecological footprint, while balancing private dwellings with shared communal spaces. nassereddine chaib nassereddine chaib At its core, the design prom... More

Black silhouettes, fissures, a golden canyon, a green flow, 110 dwellings. And on the smallest plot, a pink house, lit by its streetlamp, open to a panorama in dialogue with the tallest tower of the block. elua® Between Rue Lucien Faure and Rue de la Faïencerie, bounded by two landscaped pathways, the new housing of the Bassins à Flot district displays its smooth, dark profile, cutting into the sky with sharp, abrupt forms, the contemporary reinterpretations of the broad silhouettes that once shaped the site’s industrial landscape. Yet the material is inhabited, carved, and open at its core, revealing its interiority, its layers, its cliffs, and the nuances of a landscape that turns golden under changing light.... More

The project is based on total prefabrication in reinforced concrete. Modular panels make up all the building elements: façades, roofs and interior partitions. The typification of elements made it possible to speed up and simplify the construction, while emphasising the building's image. Photos by Alexander Bogorodskiy - Architectural Photography Photos by Alexander Bogorodskiy - Architectural Photography Photos by Alexander Bogorodskiy - Architectural Photography In overall terms, the project houses five dwellings - three with two floors, two with a single floor. On the ground floor, the dwellings have a rectangular and regular plan, each with two free fronts. On the upper floor there are three separate parallelepiped... More

In an extraordinarily well located area of the city, forming part of an urban environment undergoing a significant transformation, we came up with a daring and ambitious housing project aimed at young people.  Projects of this kind are sadly lacking in a market characterised by conventionalism. Alfonso Quiroga Alfonso Quiroga Alfonso Quiroga The initial idea of providing all the dwellings with appealing spaces that connected the various rooms on a spatial level, led to the solution of designing duplex dwellings with double height spaces above the living rooms. The entrances are located on the odd floors, with spaces placed above them to house the individual installations of the dwellings. Access is from the core areas.... More

Real de los Reyes is a group of houses located in the Coyoacan borough, south Mexico City, where museums, craft markets and public spaces full of history stand out, preserving a colonial and bohemian style. Jaime Navarro The area is full of recreational places for everyday life, from outdoor cafes, restaurants, art galleries, ice cream parlors to tree-lined and cobblestone streets. It gives you the feeling of traveling back in time in an environment of history, culture and tradition, without losing services such as shopping centers, schools, gyms and restaurants. Jaime Navarro Real de los Reyes offers luxury and comfort for its inhabitants through its large areas, security system, architectural finishes and distribution of space... More

The C4 project, located in the centre of the city of Valencia, transforms and rehabilitates a 1920 building into a contemporary residential building adapted to new social demands. David Zarzoso As it is a listed building, the project has had to maintain and restore the main façade, becoming one of the most unique and characteristic elements of the building. Likewise, its envelope and stairs of the vertical communication core have been maintained. David Zarzoso This project has supposed also a delicate and laborious restoration work in which we have striven for pointing out the value and the essence of the original building, highlighting various existing elements such as the entrance hall space, the nolla pavement, the woo... More

Bucharest's central areas are faced nowadays with fast and somewhat chaotic densification. While we believe that density can, and many times must be seen as a form of sustainability, we also admit that the relationship between habitation within an old urban fabric and the increase of its density is often a fragile one, as places might lose their character. Andrei Margulescu Our project seeks an appropriate answer to this problem by mediating between different sizes and densities in a central neighbourhood with small streets, long, narrow plots, and a puzzle of old and new buildings of all types and scales, not far from the socialist intervention of a large boulevard and its "curtain" of tall apartment blocks. Andrei Margulescu T... More

The residential building AC33 is located at the heart of the Mediterranean city of Valencia. This residential project consists of the construction of new dwellings, as well as an interior garden, garage and commercial premises, with the uniqueness of having to maintain and rehabilitate the facade of the original building built in 1921. David Frutos It is, therefore, a project that has supposed an improvement of the historical and artistic heritage of the city of Valencia. A project in which one of the most important aspects has been giving continuity to what was already happening in the neighbourhood and its memory, reformulating the everyday life from a contemporaneity and a sustainability point of view. In short, an architecture cap... More