Social 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

Ebbisham Drive transforms a former garage site within the Ashmole Estate in Lambeth, London, into 15 affordable rented homes. Located on a quiet private street, the development completes an established cul-de-sac and contributes to the urban character of the area. The scheme provides one-, two-, and three-bedroom dual-aspect homes, including three wheelchair-adaptable units and five family townhouses, supporting a mix of household types and inclusive living. Arranged across two and three storeys, the buildings reflect the scale and rhythm of the surrounding terraces, sitting comfortably within the existing neighbourhood. Tim Crocker Tim Crocker Tim Crocker Estate regeneration and programme context Designed by Fraser Brown... More

The project seeks to reconcile the scale of the ensemble with a more domestic character by fragmenting the volumes into four smaller pieces. This fragmentation creates a landscaped interior space that provides access to all the dwellings and allows for fluidity between the surrounding green areas. These smaller volumes rise five stories so they do not cast shadows on the longitudinal block. This main block features an open ground floor containing a single unique dwelling with a small garden, topped by four standard floors and a fifth story with three penthouses. Ángel Baltanás Regarding the delicate balance between fragmentation and compactness in a location like Albacete, which experiences high solar exposure with cold... More

The best neighborhood is not composed of singular architectural works. Systematicity, a certain homogeneity, and expressive restraint are attributes we consider necessary for the majority of residential buildings. Therefore, the repetitive exterior facades, with uniform apertures that do not reveal the specific rooms they illuminate to the casual observer, contribute to a serene urban ensemble while providing identity to the complex without renouncing a certain visual vibration. Ángel Baltanás, Roland Halbe, Jaime Silva Neither a block nor a perimeter block; the fully closed block can be restrictive. We maintain its morphology by preserving alignments with adjacent blocks, yet the interior garden relates to the street an... More

Conceived in 2017, the Júlio Prestes Housing Complex, designed by Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos, is the result of an ongoing effort to revitalize one of the most emblematic and challenging areas in downtown São Paulo. Developed through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP), the project integrates social housing, public space enhancement, and urban connectivity, establishing itself as one of the most significant urban interventions of the past decade in the city. Gui Uemura Gui Uemura Gui Uemura Completed in 2025, the OPM Building is the last structure to be delivered within the complex. More than a new construction, it symbolizes the culmination of an urban, architectural, and social process conceived at a territ... More

The İzmit Çınar Evler Social Housing Project was conceived not merely as a residential development but as a contemporary living environment that integrates with nature, nurtures community spirit, and prioritizes the human scale. Instead of monotonous high-rise blocks, the design employs low-rise, horizontally articulated volumes, establishing a warm, familiar, and reassuring architectural language within the city. Doğacan GÜL Situated on a sloping topography, the blocks are carefully terraced to follow the natural terrain, ensuring equal access to daylight and views for all residences. This sensitive placement allows the architecture to merge with the land, while intermediate courtyards at different levels create social ga... More

The August is one of five social housing blocks in the new residential area Overhoeks in Amsterdam-Noord. The challenge was to create affordable houses, aesthetically competing with the surrounding luxury residential complexes. Coming home, feeling at home and soft surroundings were important design themes. Ossip van Duivenbode Caption Soft surroundingsThe August, like many other residential blocks in Overhoeks, has seven floors with a U-shaped floor plan. As a counterpart to the rigid urban structure, the building design is ‘softened’ with rounded corners, pastel colours and tangible finishings. The plinth facade is covered with luxurious green glazed brick from Royal Tichelaar, while the rest of the brick facade is... More

The Barra Funda district, a traditional neighborhood in São Paulo’s western zone, has received a major urban intervention, marking yet another chapter in its ongoing transformation. Designed by the firm Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos Associados, the new residential project occupies the site of the former Municipal Asphalt Plant, which operated from 1951 until its decommissioning in 2019. The site was later incorporated into São Paulo’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program for the revitalization of the city center region.  Studio Gui Uemura Studio Gui Uemura Resulting from a comprehensive environmental revitalization and decontamination process, the development delivers 417 social housing units a... More

Rethinking housing from the inside out: a new generation of social and private housing, where the dwelling adapts to its inhabitants – and not the other way around. START-Ivry sets out to redefine housing culture. It rejects the prevailing standardisation of housing production and responds to the growing diversity of contemporary lifestyles. It rethinks housing from the inside — starting from the resident — restoring the central role of the floor plan, and boldly reversing the conventional process by starting with architecture: the architect is selected first, and developers are then invited to compete. START embodies a genuine paradigm shift.   START stands for Social, Transformable, Affordable and Resilient Typol... More

Casa Blanca is a social project, carried out in collaboration with a group ofcompanies that each contributed resources to build this work.The project is the second social work that we do as a company. Thanks to the factthat we have a YouTube channel where we create educational content anddissemination of Architecture, one day we came to record the white house, in a social interest subdivision. Raúl Hernández Raúl Hernández She invited us to meet her to make a video and show us that she had remodeled herhouse herself. Using lightweight materials like drywall and cement board, he built athird bedroom for his oldest son and remodeled his kitchen. He also introduced usto his first son, Carlos, 27 years old... More

The project involves the redevelopment of an entire urban block of social housing built in the 1950s. The degradation was irrecoverable, so it was decided to completely demolish it. It consisted of three four-story buildings oriented on the heliocentric axis and placed about 12 meters apart from each other. There was no urban design, only compliance with building hygiene requirements. Fabio Mantovani The project aimed to reconstitute a community of residents who could identify with belonging to a recognizable place beyond ethnic origins. The new buildings protect a large central space on which all the living rooms of the apartments face, creating a continuous interplay between private enclosed space and public open space, mediated by... More