Affordable Housing

Living Rooms at the U.S. Mexico Border and Senior Housing with Childcare in San Ysidro, California. 

ELEMENTAL specializes in designs featuring basic house elements at super low budgets that encourage residents to expand into adjacent space as they find the money to do so.

In 1965, the Peruvian Government and the United Nations invited British architect Peter Land to design a strategy for mass housing as an alternative to the massive informal settlements that were dramatically taking place in Lima during that period. Discussions began about the PREVI (Proyecto experimental de vivienda, Experimental Housing Project), and Land proposed the organization of an international competition to design 1,500 housing units (2) on a deserted 40-hectare site north of Lima’s downtown. The self-constructed city, comprising houses built by occupants, played a major role at the time and is still a relevant response to the unhoused of today.

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EcoMOD is an innovative design/ build approach to commercially viable affordable houses in the United States. 

A competition calling for innovative and affordable housing schemes in South Africa.