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A couple with kids imbued a duplex with the spirit of adventure by including a slide, a climbing wall, a cargo net, and swings.

A Hay sectional was chosen for their living space, beside Corbusier arm chairs beneath a projector. The rug and floor cushions were sourced from Morocco.

Mithun, the firm behind the landscape architecture, integrated edible plants in the courtyard’s terraced benches that can be harvested and used for meals prepared by volunteers.

Joe Banuelos, who lived off and on at PorchLight’s prior shelter, is training to become part of its peer mentor program.

Many full-time residents of the large, C-shaped hall constructed their “roll towers” using wood panels, steel structural frames, and glass windows or fabric curtains. “People were free to use the material they liked,” says Mätti.

In an affordable housing complex in Zurich, Mätti Wüthrich, Eva Maria Küpfer, Alex Popert, Gaba Lopes, and Katharina Riedl live in movable structures inside an open communal space called a “hall.” An arrangement traditionally found in squats, their home is the first legal example of hall living in Switzerland.