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This ADU, or "Accessory Dwelling Unit," is the second such project featured as a US Building of the Week in 2022, evidence of the growing popularity of the typology and the increasing number of jurisdictions making them legal means of adding density to residential neighborhoods. The architects... Yeh-Yeh-Yeh Architects

Accessory dwelling units in the form of carriage houses, granny flats and the like were common in the United States for centuries, but the rise of the suburbs after World War II, accompanied by restrictive single-family zoning, meant ADUs were no longer built — or even legal. But demographic... Tres Birds

For this house-in-a-backyard, otherwise known as an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU), Waechter Architecture took Portland’s increased density movement and used it as an opportunity to explore housing iconoiconography, sculptural forms, dual-purpose elements, and explore how to massage small... Waechter Architecture