Future housing
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about future housing
Project • By frontofficetokyo • Private Houses
avelgem housing
Facing a national housing crisis Belgium encourages development and intensification of their small towns instead of sprawl. Neither rural nor urban, what form should housing in these areas take?
Located in Avelgem Belgium, this project is situated on a significant road leading to the old tower church, and directly faces City Hall. In spite of its location the site is host only to a small abandoned factory and the family home of its operators, both unused for years.
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New housing in a rural community is urban planning by definition. And so we begin with urbanism. Ironically, much of the new housing in the area retreats from its context. Unquestioned, as-of-right regulations leads to a wall of apartments on... More
Project • By SN(Sajjad Navidi) • Warehouses
Puffer Village
Smart village to adapt to changes in sea level rise inspired by the biomimetic structure of "Pufferfish"
A smart village that responds to the environment and adapts to it.
Ganvie is a lake village in Benin, Africa, lying in Lake Nokoué. One of the problems of Ganvie Lake Village is the high water level. The best answer is "water for water". The biomimetic structure of pufferfish and its strategy to deal with enemies is by inflation with water or air. Inspired by this feature, we built smart homes that have the typological form of the area (inspired by the sand ring of pufferfish). when the rise water and tides, filled with air and come to the surface of the water, also in conditions Stormy and wavy, filled with water and heavy and... More
Project • By Romero Vallejo • Senior Housing
Vitapolis senior living
A place for senior citizens to call home. Vitápolis is a residential complex whose services are tailored to the social and welfare needs of senior citizens. In addition to the development's 35 fully-accessible independent apartments, it has community space which covers a surface area of than 1,500 m2 and includes gymnasiums, workshops, cafeteria, meeting rooms, lounges, gardens, pools, sports facilities and allotments.
The Vitápolis project looks beyond architectural considerations and sets out to deliver a solution adapted to the emerging physical and emotional needs of this section of the population.
Romero & Vallejo
The development does not merely provide a set of accessible housing units. It aims to create... More
Project • By pluskontoret A/S arkitekter MAA • Housing
Skovbrynet
Skovbrynet is a prize winning sustainable and low cost future public housing situated on the border of a forest and a new neighborhood.
The Skovbrynet project (5800 m2), with low energy and sustainable approach, combines pragmatism and poetry - reason and aesthetics - in order to create responsible and exemplary houses that can help to lead the way for energy-efficient and competitive public housing in the future.
The project is based on a clear sustainability strategy that combines energy efficiency, rational construction engineering, prefabrication and recycling. Skovbrynet shows that the combination of these elements can enable a reasonable and attainable energy class 1 architecture.
The project consists of 56 homes spread over f... More