Housing

Collective housing

EUmies Awards 1988

Shortlisted

Valle Architetti Associati

Gino Valle

EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging

Collective housing

EUmies Awards 1992

Nominees

Grafton Architects

Yvonne Farrell

EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging

Collective housing

EUmies Awards 1992

Shortlisted

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Renzo Piano · Bernard Plattner

The building is located in a densely populated area of the 19th arrondisement in Paris. The building, with a rectangle general shape, can be thought of as a mass built to fit into the existing urban fabric on its outside perimeter while its center has been ‘carved out’ to accommodate an interior green space.

EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging

Collective housing

EUmies Awards 1994

Shortlisted

Prof. Kollhoff Generalplanungs-GmbH

Hans Kollhoff · Christian Rapp

EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging

Collective housing

EUmies Awards 1996

Shortlisted

Helin & Co Architects

Ritva Mannersuo · Pekka Helin

EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging

Collective housing

EUmies Awards 2003

Shortlisted

S333 Architecture + Urbanism

Jonathan Woodroffe · Dominic Papa · Burton Hamfelt · Christopher Moller

EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging

Collective housing

EUmies Awards 2003

Architecture finalists

Xaveer De Geyter Architects

Xaveer de Geyter

EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging

Collective housing

EUmies Awards 2001

Shortlisted

Edouard François

Edouard François

EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Fran Hodalj

Two villas (visually similar, yet different regarding their functions) are to become ruins in their
fragile environment. This project questions the relation to architectural heritage – for the served
villa the approach taken was the adaptive reuse, while for the servant villa it was the non-use.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Aaron Gatt

This project deals with the housing crisis and issues of right to the city that the plague Cyprus. The aim is to find a mechanism to solve these issues through a grassroots movement, given the government’s apparent reluctance to act, while bringing to the forefront issues which are often overlooked.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Samad Fathi

My final design project on transformative spatial practice in Oujda (Morocco) aimed to analyze three different housing units in Oujda to further develop a design scenario about the repair, the transformation and the extension of one of the analyzed buildings.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Jannik Lüngen

The “Multigenerational living in Oberlaa” project deals with urban planning based on the demographic trend in Europe. The focus is on sustainable, flexible designs, space optimization and key shopping, health and social spaces. It promotes inclusion through barrierfree and crossgenerational living.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Finalists

Toni Lee Marie Bethäuser · Kimberly Rahn

Dealing with adaptive reuse of building components, our work rethinks demolition practice by integrating materials from a source object, about to be demolished, into a target object. The developed methodology and aesthetics offer a solution for resource-efficient construction.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Open Nominees

Myriam Ly

This project is the result of the revitalization of a forgotten historic site.
The commitment to preserving as much of the existing structure as possible and minimizing the import of new construction materials gives meaning to the spatial composition.
A balance between progress and responsibility.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Jonas Musil

Grain silo towers, up to 70 meters high, are industrial cultural assets, gigantic functional
structures that characterize the eastern Austrian landscape. As many of these silos stand
empty today, this master’s thesis draws attention to the unused potential of this building
type.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Michał Kiercz

Project explores the modernization of Leipzig-type buildings, by converting them into low-budget housing. It aims to preserve 1970s architectural heritage and propose a reuse model, updating the Leipzig-type system from the GDR to fit contemporary urban needs while addressing housing accessibility.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Marius Indrei

The project explores the analysis and reconfiguration of a distinct urban void within the contemporary city—a space shaped by the radical urban expansion of the 70s in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It is the necessity of infill a sequence of architectural objects that will structure today’s disorder.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Shortlisted

Thu Nga Nadine Do

This work tackles HCMC’s housing challenges by activating urban leftover spaces to provide quality housing for low-income groups. The suggested low-rise, high-density approach, inspired by the traditional tube house, focuses on adaptive housing forms that evolves with residents’ needs over time.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Markus Welte

Volantem Civitatem attempts to rethink the city from the big picture down to the smallest detail to create a more livable environment. Through a vertical layering of functions, the city is being reorganized from a previously two-dimensional arrangement into a spatial structure.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Dimitrina Dimitrova

Issue: Disaster victims need rapid, adaptable, and sustainable temporary housing.
Challenge: Traditional emergency shelters lack flexibility, sustainability, and personal comfort.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Kyunga Kim

This project explores the spatial qualities of aging Korean apartment complexes through drawing analysis and proposes subtle interventions to restore their social and environmental ties, offering a renewed perspective on their significance in contemporary Korea.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Shortlisted

Lilly Irmer · Sophie Kalwa

The project explores repurposing office buildings for housing. Using a 1960s skeletal structure, it assesses adaptability, costs and CO₂ impact. By preserving key elements and integrating flexible systems, it promotes resource-efficient transformation over demolition, extending building lifespans.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Martina Riva · Giulia Valleise

Ci.Re.Vi Circular Regeneration Viikki stems from design and environmental challenges in Helsinki. The project focuses on light optimization, climate resilience, and carbon neutrality, using prefabrication and parametric design to boost efficiency, reduce impact, and ensure sustainability.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Beatriz Whitham Agut

Suburbia: an outdated formula, consuming land, isolating people and erasing nature. N.E.S.T. is not a building—it’s a system: a porous, evolving framework where housing, community and landscape merge. A network of modular cores enables flexible living, connectivity and ecological preservation.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

María José Palomo Montero

This project proposes an intergenerational housing to respond to population ageing, a current global challenge. Its main objectives are to improve people’s health and reduce the environmental impact of construction, by applying biophilic strategies and active ageing concepts.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Open Nominees

Pauline Sauter

The project repurposes Zurich’s car-dominated station area to address housing shortage. By rearranging the modular car park and integrating its elements into the existing fabric, the car infrastructure remains part of the site’s history. A crane redistributes and adapts elements to create housing.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Shortlisted

Sandi Terzić

The unsustainability of an economic model based on private capital interests is architecturally reflected in suburban sprawl and housing commodification. Such a model demands an antithetic manifesto: productive and dense co-housing settlement for a resilient society built on values, not profit.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Christine Jiayi Chen · Kristina Shatokhina

This thesis explores the transformative potential of ruins, examining their historical, aesthetic, and socio-economic impact. It critiques modern housing policies and real estate speculation, proposing an alternative approach which views ruins as spaces for creative rebellion and adaptive reuse.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

tanguy Richard

Bruxelles Chantiers reclaims 300,000m² of empty EU offices into a democratic ideal. Open parliamentary residencies, a shifting tower, a vibrant urban cycle: here, Europe reinvents itself. A collective momentum where citizens and institutions rewrite the European narrative together.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Martina Miranda

The thesis concerns the eastern area of Naples with:
– Redefinition of Via Gianturco;
– Design of a linear park and social housing.

Outcomes:
– Continuity with historical traces;
– Removing physical barriers;
– Social housing with flexibility of use.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Shortlisted

Aimilia Entouarnts Kaninia · Anastasia Tsioptsia

An alternative model of student accommodation is proposed through the reuse of empty ground-floor shops, constructing a network of spaces and human relationships. To examine our proposal under real-life conditions, an unused shop was found and made active, hosting a multitude of people and things.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Nika Bronić

Slovenia’s housing market, shaped by socialist-era self-building, now leaves non-owners struggling in an unregulated rental market. Emergency Exit revives self-building as a tool for urban densification. Three adaptable models integrate affordable housing into Ljubljana’s existing urban fabric.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Open Nominees

Andreea Buzuloi

With Central Hill Estate being under the threat of demolition, questions are arising about alternative solutions to save the residents and their homes. The project encompasses the response to the community’s needs while celebrating the legacy of modernist architecture in a domestic environment.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Maximiliane John

In the industrial valley of the river Mangfall, a space is outlined that mediates between landscape, industry and art. In this place, togetherness takes centre stage. The appropriateness of utilising natural resources is discussed and a concept of communal working and living is developed.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Harry Anthony Clarke

This project redefines collective housing by adapting tradition to contemporary challenges. Community spaces, passive strategies, and historical continuity create a resilient, cohesive model, ultimately achieving affordable housing, whilst responding to modern needs and worries.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Francisco Cotallo Blanco

The project reflects on the new ways of living in the face of the collective housing model of the twentieth century. The economic, health and climate crises, together with loneliness and uncertainty, demand residential alternatives, promoting new models of coexistence and updated needs.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Shortlisted

Monet Alexis

Facing its imminent demolition, Robin Hood Gardens, the large-scale housing project by Alison and Peter Smithson asks for urgent attention. Our project proposes the radical repair of the building and tackles simultaneously the precarious situation of student housing in the UK.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Louwies Pitteljon

Starting from a structural analysis of existing ‘village’ typologies, the design blends into the built identity of the Flemish village. By recognising the structural intelligence of the typologies, they are used to densify the Flemish rural area in innovative ways and in unexpected situations.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

María Fe Montenegro Cerna

My project explores a new residential typology that seamlessly integrates food production with residential architecture, creating a model for sustainable urban living. It envisions a self-sustaining community where residents can grow their own food, recycle waste, and harvest water.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Teodora Ribarova

The project aims to create a modular housing structure for the temporary accommodation of citizens affected by natural disasters and crises. Despite its temporary nature, the structure integrates modern trends in multi-family housing, focusing on comfort, social integration, and innovation.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Bodendörfer Anna-Lena

Using an 1864 Bavarian farmhouse as a case study, this project explores how existing structures in rural areas can be adapted for modern multi-generational living within a family and made more energy efficient with few targeted interventions.

EUmies Awards Young Talent

Collective housing

Young Talent 2025

YT Nominees

Blanca Rodríguez Huertas

Through the Threshold is an urban regeneration project in Barcelona’s 22@ district. It revitalizes Masoliver Passage with affordable and public housing alongside community spaces, using sustainable strategies, timber prefabrication, and environmental solutions to promote inclusive urban development.

EUmies Awards Young Talent