A housing building made as compact as possible, lowering the cost of construction as well as the cost of maintaining it. It allows for flexibility and empowers the sense of community.
Whilst looking into the incomes and outputs of an average Balkan family, this project tries to provide high quality and spacious dwellings into a pay range what might be considered affordable to this type of family. This was achieved by tackling the problem in different ways. First the building was made as compact as possible, lowering the cost of construction as well as the cost of maintaining it. Secondly, by analyzing the lifespan of a family, the project gives all the flexibility the family needs in order to expand and/or divide the unit into multiple apartments. This gives the building a long-lasting life and a sense of community. The final project meant that the families now could own the same sized housing unit with 55% of the original price.
