Socialhousing

The North Melbourne Public Housing Renewal Program (PHRP) presents a deep commitment to the destigmatisation of social housing. The development is intricately integrated with the fabric of its urban context. Social and private housing that is contextual, tenure blind and enriches the soul. The project comprises of 127 social housing apartments and 17 private townhouses. John Gollings The design response is an artful conglomeration of housing typologies – the small tower, the row house and the courtyard – into something new, providing high quality public and private housing; a well-mannered streetscape to Haines St; and a memorable urban street between the development and the primary school on the new Kirner Street. A gener... More

LGA was hired by New Frontiers Aboriginal Residential Corporation (NFARC) to expand their affordable rental housing site on Coxwell Avenue, in East Toronto. Working around their existing 31-unit building, we replaced an underutilized at-grade parking area at the rear of the site with a three-story freestanding addition, creating 12 new one-bedroom units to be offered at affordable rates. Eliot Wright Eliot Wright Eliot Wright Eliot Wright Our primary aim was to design an uplifting, durable, and high-quality environment that conveys the universal pleasure that is often missing from affordable housing projects, so our addition takes on the familiar form of a pair of brick houses. Maximizing access to natural light was ano... More

One of the central tasks of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten is to "enhance the respective location" with their buildings. The social housing at 15, rue Saint Just in the Batignolles district of Paris, recently opened, confirms this thesis. 250 social housing units and 30 short-term flats have been combined in one building on 9,900 m² GFA. The valued developer is 3F residences, while Coallia and Aurore are responsible for operations and the project was realised by Eiffage. Cyrille Weiner The challenge for our Paris team, led by Anne Speicher and Mathias Bernhardt, was complex: the Boulevard Peripherique to the north and west causes noise, the wall of the Batignolles cemetery borders the site to the south, and a sports area adjoins... More

The idea of place making and the creation of a local community have been central in the design proposal for the new social housing complex in Larnaca. The design process has been informed by the challenges of the site and program as well as by a set of goals such as to create a distinctive identity and a strong sense of neighbourhood whilst integrating into the wider urban fabric, to provide open communal spaces and opportunities for social interaction and to design inexpensive but sustainable structures. NANA The programmatic requirement for 35 apartments is divided in four building units. The polygonal shape of the buildings allows for unobstructed views from every room while at the same time producing more free space between the bu... More

On a plot on the edge of Calenberger Neustadt, close to the city centre, a total of 135 subsidized, cooperative and freehold apartments and a children's day nursery were built by Stefan Forster and his team. The new building takes its cue from the typical 19th-century block-edge development common in the vicinity, the design of each façade adapted slightly in response to the different situations. Along Adolfstrasse projecting bays enliven the street space and at the same time mark out the entrances; on Molthanstrasse deep recessed bays accommodate the existing trees on site and create green courtyards. Lisa Farkas Lisa Farkas Along Kommandanturstraße a green zone creates the requisite spacing to the nearby developmen... More

This project is one of 84 experimental proposals for “Del Territorio al Habitante”, a program designed by the Center for Research for Sustainable Development (CIDS) to help improve rural housing solutions in Mexico with the goal of responding directly to the given site (and territory). Each proposal was designed by a different architecture firm and was meant to be self-produced, meaning that each firm had to oversee the construction and development of their own proposal with a budget provided by the CIDS. Thru this program, Laboratorio de Vivienda was created in Apan, Tlaxcala where 32 of the housing prototypes were built as part of a master plan created by MOS Architects. The purpose of this development was to study the relationship betwee... More