Infill Housing

Type: Multi-family housing
Site: Sample City
Year: 2025
Studio: Housing Studio
Role: Team of 2 (lead on facade and units)
Team: with J. Chen

Street facade of the housing block at dusk, with timber shutters between neighbouring buildings. — Street facade, shutters half open.

Twelve apartments on a narrow urban lot. A deep facade of operable shutters gives each unit a private outdoor room while keeping the street wall continuous. Shared stairs are pushed to the light well, where neighbours meet on generous landings instead of in dark corridors. Every unit has light from two sides and cross ventilation, which lets the building work without air conditioning for most of the year. The project asks how much privacy, daylight and shared space a tight lot can give back to the city.

Typical unit plan: a long narrow apartment with an outdoor room at the street end, with a scale bar. — Typical unit plan, 1:100.

Looking up the light well at the shared stair and landings. — The light well and shared stair.

Facade wall section through the operable timber shutters and floor slabs. — Facade wall section, 1:20.