PIXEL HOMES

By 2050 the global population is projected to reach 9.8 billion with rapid urbanization ensuring 2 of every 3 people will live/work in our major cities. Currently demand for affordable homes already far exceeds supply.

Pixel Homes is a extension of our architectural practice which focuses on the implementation of design and technology to build innovative affordable homes in our major cities. Taking the knowledge, design principles and innovative technological advancements we have accrued whilst working on some of the most groundbreaking architecture and design projects around the world, we look to apply this to new housing solutions to help combat the housing crisis.

Various responses claiming to be the solution have emerged: construction, prefabrication, modular construction; technological, robotic construction, automation; and design, high-density, co-living. There is no isolated solution. It requires an amalgam of innovations in finance, design, construction and sustainable development beginning with empowering homeowners to occupy the center of the process. Our approach centers people within the process, working backwards to apply the most suitable methodologies to achieve real housing solutions for everyday people.

The way we build has hardly changed over the past few decades; the majority of new homes constructed with outdated, slow, inefficient, high-carbon methods with major fluctuations in quality. Digital design tools streamline and extend the design process into construction, dovetailing with new, efficient, precise construction forms - off-site, modular, prefabrication and mass-timber - reducing costs and dramatically improving project performance and sustainability.

BIOPHILIC DESIGN

The critical aspect of our design philosophy at Pixel Homes is based on our instinctive desire for nature, also known as biophilia. The name is derived from the Greek words ‘bios’ (organic life) and ‘philia’ (love). Being immersed in natural materials and the outdoors has been proven to have a number of health and wellbeing benefits to inhabitants from reducing stress to elevating concentration.

MULTI-GENERATIONAL

Our building system and design accommodates a range of housing typologies to suit families of all ages. The flexibility in our modular structure and interior partitions also enables many generations to live under one roof or development. This is also a major component in developing our Pixel Homes not just as a building but also as a local community.

OUTDOOR SPACES

As our population continues to migrate towards our cities it's critical to create access to the outdoors, natural materials and natural daylight. In an ever increasing urban world access to nature is becoming more important in our daily lives. Pixel Homes always strives to create access to the outdoors for each resident.