Making a Living: Integrating informal income generation schemes into formal urban housing redevelopment as foundation for future economic growth and urban densification

Ethiopia is forecast to be the fastest growing economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Partly due to this economic growth, the urban population is expected to increase significantly in the coming decades. In the group of urban migrants, more than half comes from rural areas, indicating a large sum of poorly educated, low skilled workers as major part of...

Place for Prosperity: fostering environments for children

The first interactions of the child with its environment can already have long-lasting impacts on its worldview (weltanschauung) and psychoanalytical state. This makes the architecture of housing, especially in poor regions, such as Nalasopara in Mumbai, a critical key point for the development of the next generations. However, after the...

Condominium 3.0: Reinventing Addis Ababa’s Mass Housing Projects for the City and it’s Low-Income Dwellers

The project is a part of the Global Dwelling studio in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The focus of the studio is on Affordable Housing for the Global Urban South. This project looks to continue with the current method of affordable housing in Addis Ababa in the form of mass housing condominiums. These developments are appearing in huge numbers across...

Affordable Housing in Amsterdam, Micro Apartments for the New Urbanites

The city of Amsterdam has a lack of affordable housing, the housing prices are exploding. The city needs to be attractive for different groups of people. Eric Brunge of nArchitects, designer of the first micro-apartment building in New York, states; “It’s very important that cities remain affordable. It’s not just a question of human right and...