Temporary housing

Homes for Hope is a homeless housing solution for Los Angeles that aims to bridge the gap between life on the streets and permanent accommodation.

Balbek Bureau has developed a blueprint for a modular village that could provide shelter for those displaced by the war in Ukraine.

As the name suggests, the tiny house is an easy and temporary solution providing shelter to the needy. The maker projects the compact dwelling as an answer to creating something that is budgetary and quick to construct. Made primarily using lightweight materials like paper tubes for the roof and paper honeycomb boards with hanji (Korean traditional paper), the house has a layout that facilitates its making without any skilled builders.

The problems of living and housing are complex. They are not solutioned trough simple architectural projects. To really make a difference, housing matter must be studied on more than one level: socialy, economic, religious and anthropology. But what can architecture by itself do? Following the...

Studio Nine Architects has designed a prototype for modular tiny houses that could be used to alleviate homelessness.

Disaster can strike a community at any minute. Following the most costly earthquake in their history in April, hundreds of thousands of...

Cortex Shelter by Cutwork is a concept for a shelter for refugee camps than could be built from a concrete textile in just 24 hours.

Döppel Studio's 'the field of possibilities' explores alternative lifestyles through the design of six micro-architectures.

Most disaster issues can affect people all over the world and depending on where you live, you probably have some inkling of how difficult it is to be forced from...

The Flexotel collapsible hotel room is designed to provide quick, cheap accommodation to outdoor events like music festivals and is aimed at crowds who do not enjoy the discomfort of camping.