The global affordable housing crisis is widespread. With the urban population rising and housing prices rising, it has become imperative to find sustainable and innovative responses. Traditional methods of tackling…
Architecture has long been a reflection of its creator’s quest for accommodating responses that transcend beyond functional needs and rather inform the building’s awareness of the physical, social, and cultural…
“…Man, as an adjective, natural, physical, sensitive being, he is a suffering, dependent and limited being…, that is, the objects of his instincts exist outside of him, independent of him,…
In response to these challenges, architects and urban planners have been working on and documenting interventions to provide housing solutions beyond high-rises while adapting to climate change without sacrificing comfort…
The project addresses the critical issue of homelessness in the United States, particularly focusing on Philadelphia, where a significant portion of the population lacks adequate housing and basic living conditions.…
In Kenya, like many other parts of the world, access to safe and affordable housing remains a significant challenge, particularly in rural and peri-urban areas. In confronting the urgent need…
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are community-based non-profit organisations dedicated to tackling housing affordability challenges by decoupling land ownership from building or home ownership. The organisation purchases land and holds it…
Social housing has a bad reputation and is typically viewed as cheap, lifeless architecture with little to no established design qualities. Society misjudges the architecture, but most importantly, the people…
Failures in the housing market in terms of shortages of housing causing homelessness, housing insecurity and high housing costs is called a “Housing Crisis”. Cities in developing countries all over…
With time, the process of city expansion and population growth amplifies, which entails the demand for conventional housing models to not only keep up with the changing requirements but also…
Growing urbanisation, population growth, and financial instability have combined to create a global urban housing issue that impacts social isolation, affordability, and accessibility. Cheap housing, social cohesiveness, and environmental sustainability…
To Be Sustainable The sustainability movement is notorious for being overpriced and unattainable. Sustainable practice has amounted to metal straws and reusable grocery bags to appease the general public when…