Temporary housing

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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

Image 2 of 12 from gallery of WE architecture + Erik Juul's Urban Garden and Housing to Provide Turning Point for Copenhagen's Homeless. Photograph by WE Architecture

USC students have designed shelters for homeless people, ranging from a tent structure made from a shopping cart to a tiny house made of scavenged material.

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...