
New Living Program
The project was initiated to deal with run-down areas of social housing and the problems arising from high ris…

Chagas 2000
The programme seeks to control Chagas, a parasitic illness affecting the rural poor in the high Andes of Latin…

Healthy, Low-energy Houses for Refugees and Socially Vulnerable Groups
The housing being provided in this programme uses straw bale and mud-straw technology which is low-cost, low-e…

Slum Dweller’s Self-help Housing, Bombay, India
This project aims to encourage people living on pavements to find alternatives for a better habitat through he…

Jamaica Urban Poverty Project
This integrated project deals with a whole range of issues relating to poverty alleviation. Implemented by the…

Manara Sub-projects
Manara Sub-Projects provide 3,320 residential plots on 106 hectares of land. All dwellings were built at the o…

Bureau de Projet d’Assistance aux Collectivités pour l’Habitat Social
The Office for Assisting Cooperative Housing Projects (BAHSO) was established in 1986 and a revolving fund was…

Affordable Shelter Using Timber Poles
In 1991 TRADA initiated a project designed to promote the use of timber poles in construction in response to t…

41 Plantamour
2000 Finalist | Switzerland
41 Plantamour is an old six-storey traditional building containing 12 flats in the centre of Geneva. Cooperati…

Focus Foyer
2000 Finalist | United Kingdom
A large Foyer providing accommodation for eighty young persons aged 16 - 25. It is situated in the city centre…