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A disused Jamaican produce shed becomes a modest live-work compound, showing how adaptive reuse can preserve useful structures while creating homes and livelihoods.
A compact urban house explores stack ventilation through a carefully engineered, storm-closable roof chimney rather than relying on bigger windows alone.
A compact starter house designed for planned expansion offers a practical alternative to unfinished additions and improvised construction.
The Quarry House imagines a Jamaican home carved into a limestone hillside, using thermal mass, deep shade and rugged local materials instead of the familiar tropical villa formula.
The Hurricane Hat House turns storm protection into architecture, lifting a shuttered timber living volume above a reinforced concrete core beneath an enormous folded metal canopy.
Brick Vault Court breaks away from the familiar flat-roofed Jamaican modern house with terracotta vaults, shaded arcades and a planted courtyard built around air, shadow and material warmth.
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The Starter Frame House turns incremental building into a deliberate Jamaican housing strategy, beginning with a complete compact home and a structural bay designed for future expansion.
The Walk-Up House explores how one narrow Jamaican urban lot could hold several compact homes while preserving shade, airflow, outdoor space and the character of a residential street.
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