Mycro Haus
Architecture Competition, Creative Direction, Research, Presentation
Sketchup, Photoshop, Illustrator, ComfyUI
Berlin, Germany
Marco Sosa, Debora Strenge, Alejandro Viteri
2024
Insight
Berlin’s rooftops hold over 65 million m² of unused potential—yet the city faces a severe housing shortage, inaccessible property markets, and shrinking living standards for young professionals and entrepreneurial communities. Rising rents, spatial inflexibility, and disconnected urban living are making traditional housing models outdated. People don’t just need shelter—they need adaptable environments that support remote work, co-living, and circular lifestyles with minimal environmental footprint.
Idea
Mycro Haus proposes a new urban layer: modular micro-homes deployed on underused rooftops, designed as living organisms rather than static buildings. Engineered with cross-laminated timber, mycelium composites, adaptive spatial units, and energy-generating facades, each module grows, transforms, and self-sustains over time. Flexible interior units unfold from walls—work, cook, rest, gather—allowing the same 25m² footprint to adapt to daily rhythms. Like spores that grow where conditions allow, these units arrive compact, expand onsite, and plug into city-wide circular systems—sharing energy, water, and data.
Impact
The outcome is not just housing, but an elevated urban ecology. Mycro Haus enables first-time homeowners, freelancers, and urban nomads to live, work, and create within resilient rooftop communities—without expanding the city outward. The project transforms dormant urban voids into vibrant habitats, reducing construction emissions by 90%, energy use by 75%, and material waste through regenerative mycelium-based systems. What emerges is a scalable blueprint for Berlin’s future: housing that assembles, evolves, heals itself, and grows with its inhabitants.
