Architects Mohammad Jabi and Liyan Jabi shared with is their proposal for the Affordable Housing for the Future Competition in Abu Alanda, Jordan. See more images and architect’s description after the break.
The predicament of production housing – often prevalent in low-income housing projects – sets the individual nature of domesticity at odds with standardized building practices. Instead of reducing residents to their perceived least common denominator, we propose a “building set” that composes a diverse platform from which individual lives may be played out. Walking around the development grounds, you are greeted with a refreshing diversity of facades, green plazas and courtyards, instead of a typical cookie cutter style of similar housing projects. Nonetheless, the building set is still a replicable model that could be developed in any other location, striking a balance between diversity and pragmatism.
