Kanye West is building Star Wars-themed housing for the homeless
Kanye West's prefabricated affordable Yeezy Home units take inspiration from the Star Wars films and might be used as underground homeless housing. More
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Footage shows construction of temporary sleeping pods for homeless people
This captioned movie shows how pods made from easy-to-assemble, CNC-cut wooden panels by Aldworth James & Bond, designed by Reed Watts, are providing temporary accommodation for homeless people. More
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Morris + Company designs housing for London's homeless in old tube station
Architecture studio Morris + Company proposes transforming a London Underground station into a co-working space and hostel for homeless people. More
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Wooden sleeping pods by Reed Watts made available to homeless people in London
Modular sleeping pods made from easy-to-assemble wooden panels are providing temporary accommodation for homeless people in London. More
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Homes for Hope tackles homelessness with modular temporary housing
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video investigates a prefabricated homeless housing concept for Los Angeles that aims to bridge the gap between life on the streets and permanent accommodation. More
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Michael Maltzan's Crest Apartments provide housing for southern California's homeless
American studio Michael Maltzan Architecture has completed a bright white residential complex in the Los Angeles area, which contains over 60 studio apartments and various support services for its formerly homeless tenants. More
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Parasitic pods attached to buildings could house New York's homeless
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video features a proposal by creative agency Framlab to house the homeless population of New York in parasitic pods attached to the outside of existing buildings. More
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Framlab proposes parasitic hexagonal pods to sleep New York's homeless
New York's empty walls could be covered with honeycomb-like clusters of pods to house the city's growing homeless population, as part of this proposal by creative agency Framlab. More
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Yale architecture students create dwelling in Connecticut for the homeless
Graduate students at Yale University have completed a prefabricated building in New Haven with two apartments that will be leased to tenants who are experiencing homelessness. More
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Salvaged tower-block cladding could be used to build migrant housing
Cladding panels removed from high-rise buildings are repurposed to build temporary homes for Romanian migrant workers in this proposal by architecture studio Reed Watts, which has just been named winner of a charity-organised design competition. More
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Brooks + Scarpa completes The Six housing for LA's homeless and disabled veterans
California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has designed a low-cost housing development in Los Angeles to accommodate displaced service members. More
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California architecture students design shelters for LA's growing homeless population
Students at the University of Southern California's School of Architecture have conceived a series of shelters for homeless people, ranging from a shopping cart converted into a tent structure to a tiny house made of scavenged material. More
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Micro dwelling by All(zone) could be erected within abandoned towers
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Bangkok studio All(zone) has conceived a small temporary home intended to be set up inside unfinished high-rise buildings in tropical cities (+ movie). More
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Richard Rogers' prefabricated housing for homeless people opens in south London
Designed for charity YMCA, this factory-building housing scheme by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners will provide accommodation for 36 homeless young people in Mitcham, south London (+ slideshow). More
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James Furzer to crowdfund parasitic sleeping pods for London's homeless
Architectural designer James Furzer has developed a modular homeless shelter that would hang off the sides of existing buildings, and launched a campaign on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to finance a prototype. More
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Shigeru Ban designs modular shelters for Nepal earthquake victims
Shigeru Ban has unveiled his designs for modular housing structures to accommodate those made homeless by the two devastating earthquakes that struck Nepal earlier this year. More
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Prototype shelter for Nepal earthquake victims could be built by unskilled workers in three days
A team of architects used metal sheets and bamboo to build this prototype shelter for victims of the Nepal earthquake, and have also produced a manual so that the design can be replicated by others. More
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Peter Barber uses a "collage of materials" in hostel for homeless people
London office Peter Barber Architects has remodelled a Victorian sheltered housing scheme in the city, employing different types of brick and render to indicate where new additions meet the original buildings. More
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Bamboo micro homes could be slotted inside Hong Kong's old factories
Hong Kong studio Affect-T has come up with a proposed solution for the city's housing crisis – a series of bamboo micro homes that could be installed inside abandoned factory buildings. More
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Pop-up housing in garages by Levitt Bernstein
Hackney studio Levitt Bernstein has won a housing design competition with a proposal to turn disused parking garages into tiny pop-up homes. More
