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IKEA’s Latest Project: Designing Low-Cost Flat-Pack Dementia Villages

Across the globe, populations of older people are growing dramatically, and few plans are in place to properly care for them. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) says 8.5 percent of people ...

Customizable 3D-Printed Houses Form A Disaster-Resistant Affordable Community

In an unnamed city somewhere in South America, construction is set to begin on a 3D-printed village designed specifically for families living on less than $200 per month. San Francisco-based ...

Buckingham Palace Redesigned as Co-Housing for 50,000

Buckingham Palace could be transformed to convert its luxurious 775 rooms and rooftop space into a solution for London’s housing crisis. At least, that’s the idea behind “Affordable ...

Home Anywhere: Compact Cabin Hosts Urban Pioneers on Berlin Rooftops

Affordable apartments are getting harder to find in just about every major city, but if we want to multiply our options, we just have to look up. That’s the idea behind Cabin Spacey, a modular ...

Constructing the Future: Defining and Designing Better Affordable Housing

The United States currently has a shortage of about 7.2 million affordable and available rental homes for households with incomes at or below the poverty level, a statistic that’s clearly ...

With Amazon on the Scene, Has Shipping Container Housing Gone Too Far?

Shipping containers may seem like a self-contained drag and drop solution for quick and affordable housing, but the process of making them livable is a lot more complicated than that. The premise ...

Cabin of Curiosities: 3D-Printed Building Covered in Tiny Succulent Planters

4,500 3D-printed ceramic tiles cover the facade of the ‘Cabin of Curiosities’ in Oakland, an experimental structure showing off how beautiful additive manufacturing can be. The facade ...

MicroPAD: Tiny Mobile Units Aim to End Homelessness in San Francisco

Could tiny prefabricated stackable mobile housing units help solve homelessness in cities like San Francisco, where nearly 7,000 people sleep in the streets every night? Affordable housing has ...

Architecture for the People: 10 Subversive and Imaginative Designs for China

Putting architecture into the hands of the people in a country where home ownership is typically out of reach, this studio has some incredibly innovative ideas, from modular units that ‘plug ...

Brutalist Reality: Tower Blocks Can Be Dystopia For Real-Life Residents

Architecture enthusiasts might love the cold, harsh lines of Brutalist buildings, but for the people who actually live in the iconic London tower blocks and other modernist complexes for ...

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