A House With No Address
Manual for Temporary Living

Book Concept
Geneva
2025

Temporary architecture is defined by its flexibility, adaptability, and resourcefulness. It is a response to immediate needs. Unlike traditional architecture, which focuses on permanence and stability, temporary architecture is designed to provide quick, functional solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and adaptability.

This book is dedicated to the idea that a simple architectural intervention can provide dignity and stability to people experiencing homelessness.

It offers practical solutions to help people create a temporary yet stable shelter,
using easily available materials and minimal tools.

Focusing on urban areas, where discarded resources can be repurposed to form a functional home for those who need it most.

The principles are universal, helping anyone in need of a temporary home, no matter their situation.
When life takes an unexpected turn, having a safe and functional space can be a crucial step toward recovery.

But what is it really about?

This book is more likely to reach architects than the people it speaks about. That gap is real — and intentional to confront.

It raises an uncomfortable question:

Am I just using poverty as a design problem?

I made this project from a place of safety, fully aware of the privilege that allows me to study what others are forced to live through.
It’s both a guide and a mirror, offering makeshift strategies while revealing where architecture helps, and where it fails.

It challenges the readers to stop looking away.

Under supervision of
Leonid Slonimsky of KOSMOS & Manuel Rossi of Rossi+Paris Architects
HEAD 2025