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  • Vo Trong Nghia Architects' low-cost housing moves towards mass production

    Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Vietnam-based Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled a third prototype of its low-cost housing design, which is now moving towards mass production (+ slideshow). More

    Alan G Brake | 13 October 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Tatiana Bilbao addresses "urgent need" for housing Mexico's poorest inhabitants

    Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Tatiana Bilbao presents a flexible building prototype that offers a solution to Mexico's social housing shortage during the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 6 October 2015 | 1 comment
  • Penda's bamboo pavilion could be expanded to create homes for 200,000 people

    Architecture studio Penda has created a rope-bound bamboo pavilion as a mock up of a modular housing system developed to provide sustainable housing schemes for populations of up to 200,000 (+ slideshow). More

    Jessica Mairs | 1 October 2015 | 1 comment
  • Casa Invisibile by Delugan Meissl is a low-cost portable house prototype clad in mirrors

    The mirrored surfaces of this modular housing unit in Slovenia, by Austrian studio Delugan Meissl, help it to blend in with the surrounding countryside (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 26 September 2015 | 13 comments
  • Zanderroth Architekten designs cb19 apartments without internal walls to create flexible layouts

    The apartments in this new Berlin co-housing project by Zanderroth Architekten were designed without the need for load-bearing walls inside, giving the owners flexibility to decide on their own layouts (+ slideshow). More

    Luke Tebbutt | 15 September 2015 | 12 comments
  • Patrick Dillon's SaLo House is an off-grid forest dwelling overlooking the Pacific Ocean

    Architect Patrick Dillon built this sustainable house on a forested hilltop in Panama from salvaged materials that had to be brought to the site by boat and horseback (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 14 September 2015 | 5 comments
  • Triendl und Fessler Architekten plans low-cost family home around a secret courtyard

    Triendl und Fessler Architekten has completed an affordable home in an Austrian village, featuring a hole in its centre that provides residents with a secluded garden courtyard (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 2 August 2015 | 3 comments
  • EFFEKT's Villa One is a low-cost home designed to suit a growing family

    This timber-clad Copenhagen house was designed by local studio EFFEKT to be flexible for a growing family, but also to match the cost of the country's cheapest kit homes (+ slideshow). More

    Luke Tebbutt | 22 July 2015 | 3 comments
  • UCLA research lab unveils micro dwelling to help combat affordable housing crisis

    Students and faculty members at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have designed a tiny house to help address the city's low-cost housing shortage. More

    Jenna McKnight | 13 July 2015 | 7 comments
  • Kevin Daly Architects builds a low-cost housing community in Santa Monica

    The four buildings that make up this affordable housing development in Santa Monica, California, all feature mint-green solar shades on their facades, and are organised around a "starfish-shaped" courtyard (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 16 May 2015 | Leave a comment
  • JYA-rchitects develops affordable homes for low-income families in South Korea

    Seoul office JYA-rchitects used cheap materials including bubble wrap and corrugated steel sheets to provide an "efficient architectural solution" for a series of low-cost houses in South Korea (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 15 March 2015 | 13 comments
  • S-AR's Casa Caja is a prototype for low-cost homes that can be built by their owners

    This low-cost concrete block house outside Monterrey was designed and built by its owners, with support from a non-profit social housing project led by local architecture office S-AR (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 7 February 2015 | 17 comments
  • Sigurd Larsen completes low-cost family house in Copenhagen

    This small black family house in Copenhagen was designed by Danish architect Sigurd Larsen to be built for a budget of just £95,000 (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 17 December 2014 | 17 comments
  • Vo Trong Nghia's latest low-cost house is "stable enough to withstand natural disasters"

    Vo Trong Nghia Architects has presented its third prototype for low-cost housing in Vietnam, which combines the lightweight structure of the first model with the durability of the second (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 15 December 2014 | 5 comments
  • Eight resourceful low-cost housing projects from around the globe

    Architects plan low-cost residences for all kinds of reasons, whether rehousing victims of natural disasters or creating affordable homes for people with low incomes. We've collected eight of the best examples, from a prefabricated home in Sweden to a bamboo dwelling in Vietnam (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 14 December 2014 | 1 comment
  • Low-cost house by Enrique Mora Alvarado built using rainforest wood and bamboo

    More than 900 bamboo poles were used to construct this home, designed by architect Enrique Mora Alvarado for a site in a remote Ecuadorian rainforest (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 14 December 2014 | 3 comments
  • Vo Trong Nghia unveils second prototype for low-cost Vietnamese housing

    Vo Trong Nghia Architects has revealed its second-phase prototype for an affordable and low-maintenance dwelling for Vietnam, as part of a project aimed at solving the country's housing crisis (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 16 September 2014 | 5 comments
  • Happy Cheap house by Tommy Carlsson is a prototype for low-cost prefab homes

    Swedish architect Tommy Carlsson has completed an affordable prefabricated home near Stockholm that is clad in corrugated iron and resembles a cube with some of its corners cut off (+ slideshow). More

    Alyn Griffiths | 27 August 2014 | 34 comments
  • 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

    Amy Frearson | 6 May 2014 | 13 comments
  • Urban-Think Tank develops housing prototype for South African slums

    Design strategy collective Urban-Think Tank has designed and built a prototypical house as part of an initiative to improve housing conditions for slum dwellers in some of the 2700 informal settlements across South Africa (+ movie). More

    Amy Frearson | 7 March 2014 | 18 comments
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