Architects

Modular Commons is your platform for designing the future

Gain access to a curated library of modular solutions, sustainable systems, and trusted suppliers to create innovative, affordable, and environmentally conscious housing.

Work with sustainable products and suppliers to create your next sustainable development.

Contribute to developing the library of solutions with your systems.

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  • Modern glass building with multiple levels housing indoor plants and furniture, located on a city street with yellow taxis and a pedestrian crosswalk, urban setting with tall buildings and cloudy sky.
  • Modern office space with glass walls, wooden furniture, potted plants, and lighting, surrounded by trees and natural scenery.
  • Modern house with a screened porch, outdoor dining area, surrounded by lush landscaping and palm trees.
  • A modern tiny house with large windows, surrounded by palm trees, with a wooden deck and potted plants outside.
  • A cozy outdoor courtyard with wooden decking, string lights, and glass-enclosed plant rooms, surrounded by urban buildings and green trees.
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    Access a Curated Library

    Save time and reduce risk by sourcing from our pre-vetted library of innovative modular homes, components, and sustainable materials.

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    Expand Your Network

    Connect directly with cutting-edge suppliers and forward-thinking developers to build powerful partnerships for your projects. When you contribute to the network you also gain access to an evolving group of suppliers. 

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    Experience Systems Firsthand

    Move beyond spec sheets. Touch the materials, see the build quality, and understand how systems integrate in a real-world environment.

Collaborate and Create

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As a contributor to Modular Commons, you’re not just showcasing ideas; you’re joining a living network of architects, developers, and manufacturers working together to shape the future of housing. Participation opens doors to developer community workshops, designed in collaboration with our manufacturing partners, where new concepts move rapidly from sketches to scalable systems.

These workshops are more than discussions; they’re hands-on laboratories where prototypes are tested, supply chains are mapped, and business opportunities are built. By collaborating across disciplines, architects gain direct insight into market demands, fabrication methods, and real-world performance—accelerating the path from design to impact.

In the Modular Commons, every contribution feeds into a cycle of shared innovation. The more you collaborate, the more opportunities you create… for your practice, for the community, and for the built environment as a whole.

The tradeshow format is dead

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Redefine how housing is Developed

For too long, talented architects have avoided the housing market, discouraged by the toxic tradeshow format that reduces innovation to spectacle and sidelines meaningful dialogue. We are creating an alternative platform where residential systems can be shared, refined, and distributed through community-defined principles rather than industry gatekeeping. Rooted in values of affordability, resilience, and sustainability, this approach shifts the focus from competition to collaboration…inviting visionary architects back into the housing conversation and ensuring that design excellence aligns with real human needs..

Implementing Change

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When architects specify sustainable products, they do more than design a building—they shape markets. Each choice pushes environmentally responsible solutions into the mainstream, creating demand that shifts industries toward greener standards.

This is the architect’s unique power: to implement systems for positive change not only in individual projects but across the broader construction ecosystem. By integrating renewable materials, efficient technologies, and regenerative principles, architects set precedents that inspire clients, influence peers, and strengthen communities.

Sustainability, in this sense, is not an add-on but a lever—aligning design excellence with social responsibility and accelerating the transition to healthier, more resilient places.