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SUMMARY:Housing  / SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES N°4
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DESCRIPTION:Peris+Toral Arquitectes\nPERIS+TORAL ARQUITECTES\nModulus Matr
 ix\n\nThe MODULUS MATRIX project is a social housing initiative in Cornell
 à that addresses current housing challenges through innovative strategies
 . These strategies include the concepts of “indifferentiation” and “
 dehier archization\,” achieved by designing equal rooms connected throug
 h enfilades that promote spatial porosity.\n\nThe architecture firm PERIS+
 TORAL ARQUITECTES\, based in Barcelona and founded by Marta Peris and Jos
 é Toral\, is dedicated to researching new ways of living associated with 
 innovative construction methods. Their focus is on addressing the challeng
 es of the climate emergency and housing.\n\n—\n\nThis lecture is part of
  the lecture series "Affordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects"\n\nFor th
 e Fall Lecture Series\, the School of Architecture at the EPFL has gathere
 d six housing projects that address affordable housing in an exemplary way
 . Each guest will present one project and explain in detail what it means 
 to produce good and affordable housing from commission to inhabitation. Th
 e aim of these lectures is to not stare too romantically at affordable hou
 sing\, but rather to show how building affordable housing is both difficu
 lt and possible. The lecture series will be inaugurated by philosopher E
 manuele Coccia - author of the acclaimed book The Philosophy of Home - w
 ho will introduce the house as a place where to imagine new and unpreceden
 ted communities that can challenge the way in which we build and inhabit h
 ousing today.\n\nIn the last decade\, housing is back in the architects’
  agenda. Yet\, renewed interest in housing corresponds to a historical mom
 ent in which\, more than ever\, housing is considered a commodity to be bo
 ught\, sold and rented rather than a space to inhabit. While in the hey-da
 y of the welfare state\, legions of architects – often employed by the s
 tate – had the chance to develop large-scale housing complexes\, and to 
 experiment with unprecedented possibilities in terms of typology and techn
 ology\, today affordable housing is reduced to few interventions in a deso
 late sea of commodified urbanization. Yet\, in spite of these hostile cond
 itions\, some recent housing projects have managed to reformulate what aff
 ordable housing can be in the 21th century. Although these projects do not
  match (yet) the scale and quantity of their 20th century predecessors\, 
 they are innovative especially in terms of how people can live together mo
 re collectively and by allowing new types of households.
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