Gallery: 7 Smart Ways to Design Housing That's Actually Affordable

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    My Micro New York - nARCHITECTS-Courtesy nARCHITECTS; Image Courtesy mir.no

    The MY Micro NY apartments going up in NYC are assembled from modules that are built off-site, and then airlifted into the construction site with a crane.
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    Austin Community Design and Development Center
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    Alley Flats Initiative - Rich MacMath of the Austin Community Design and Development Center-Credit-Austin Community Design and Development Center

    The Alley Flat Initiative in Austin, Texas, makes use of Austin’s many empty alleyways by building two-story residential apartments in them.
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    9x18 - Peterson Rich Office and Sagi Golan-Credit-Peterson Rich Office and Sagi Golan

    The "9 x 18” in New York City would convert unused urban space into retail outfits, or shared city parks.
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    Casting Affordability - Larry Sass-Credit-Courtesy of Larry Sass

    Larry Sass's Casting Affordability project is speculative, and looks into new construction technologies that could make rapid building a cheaper process.
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    Pier 6, Brooklyn - ODA-Credit-Courtesy of ODA New York

    The Pier 6 towers in Brooklyn Bridge Park were chosen to represent the "leveraging land" section of the exhibit.
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    SPACIOUS - LOT-EK - Credit-Courtesy of LOT-EK

    Lo-tek, a coworking hotel in New York City, responds to the vanishing boundaries that once separated home life and work life, by offering up spaces that can double or triple in functionality.
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    Patrick Tighe Architecture and Bran Arifin
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    The Courtyard at LaBrea-Credit-Patrick Tighe Architecture Bran Arifin

    The La Brea housing complex in Los Angeles was designed with computer modeling techniques that allow it to perform more ecologically, and therefore more economically.
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