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Commune architecture encompasses intentional communities, co-housing developments, and collective living spaces designed around shared values of resource use, social connection, and cooperative governance. As housing crises and sustainability imperatives reshape residential design, commune typologies offer important models for rethinking the relationship between private space and collective housing in contemporary cities.
Kiefhoek Housing Estate in Rotterdam, designed by J.J.P. Oud between 1925 and 1929 and built from 1928 to 1930, organized nearly 300 compact workers’ dwellings as a continuous urban composition….
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In a bold and thoughtful blend of history, architecture, nature, and culture, MVRDV, in collaboration with Buro Harro and KondorWessels Projecten, has transformed a former German WWII military base into…
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The shabonos (also known as xaponos, shaponos, or Yanos) are the traditional communal dwellings of the Yanomami tribes of Southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. They are circular communal buildings with…
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