建筑风格在建筑环境的构成中起到了很多基本的作用，但是住房供给持续不足的情况却是人们在建筑领域最关心的问题。事实上，在每个全球性的城市中，人口在持续增长，但是价格实惠的住房的供给却是有限的，这也是二十一世纪的生活所面临的主要问题，而这个问题的标志则是在解决这种令人困扰的城市窘况中出现的建筑风格的持续相关性。上世纪提出的解决方案则是修建巨大的平板和盒子状的建筑体量及建筑结构，它们几乎和他们的社会野心一样大。 但是规模的优点被夸大了，或者说更有可能被误解了，从而带来了很大的社会退化。解决公益住房问题的万全之策并不能带来社会性的、责任性的和共同性的预期结果，这是一个事实，来自温伯尼的 5468796 Architecture 试图以更小的规模来彻底改造这样的住宅类型。至于努力的结果就是位于温伯尼中央公园街区的一个被称为中央村庄的项目，这是一个拥有 25 套住房的住宅设施，项目重点发展的是供观察用的窗户和供社交用的公共空间。

 译者：蝈蝈 Architecture serves many essential functions in the fabric of the built environment, but it is the perpetual deficit of housing that some might argue is the field ’ s ultimate clarion call. In virtually every global city, growing populations and limited supplies of affordable dwellings are the major issues of twenty-first century life — and therefore are indications of the continued relevance of architecture in solving vexing urban predicaments. The last century offered early promise in addressing such issues with proposals to house the masses in immense slabs and box buildings, structures almost as large as their social ambition. But what became an asset of scale overlooked, or more probably misunderstood, the social degradation that such largeness elicited.Aware of the fact that a one-size-fits-all approach to social housing rarely brings the desired outcomes of sociability, accountability, and community, Winnipeg ’ s 5468796 Architecture sought to reinvent the typology on a smaller scale. The outcome, a project in Winnipeg ’ s Central Park neighborhood known as Centre Village, is a 25-unit housing complex that prioritizes windows for observation and public spaces for socializing.

加拿大温伯尼公益住房外部实景图

加拿大温伯尼公益住房平面图