Bee Breeders have selected the winners of the New York Affordable Housing Challenge, inspired by barriers faced by the global population in our contemporary culture of housing scarcity and economic deprivation. The submissions provide various multifaceted architectural responses to scattered sites of various scales around New York City, ?redefining the culture, economy, and experience of urban domesticity by means of space, material, morphology, or structure.?

First Prize: The Table Top / Lap Chi Kwong, Alison Von Glinow . Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders

Bee Breeders have selected the winners of the New York Affordable Housing Challenge, inspired by barriers faced by the global population in our contemporary culture of housing scarcity and economic deprivation. The submissions provide various multifaceted architectural responses to scattered sites of various scales around New York City, ?redefining the culture, economy, and experience of urban domesticity by means of space, material, morphology, or structure.?Below are the winners of the New York Affordable Housing Challenge:First Prize: The Table Top / Lap Chi Kwong, Alison von Glinow
First Prize: The Table Top / Lap Chi Kwong, Alison Von Glinow . Image Courtesy of Bee Breeders

A modular aggregation of elements, the winning project uses combined forms of a circle, square and rectangle to create various unit types, through different orientations and combinations. Costs are reduced through the...