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SUMMARY:Housing  / SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES N°5
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DESCRIPTION:RC Architects\, Rohan Chavan\nRC ARCHITECTS \nVivoli\, Afford
 able Housing Mumbai\n\nVivoli is an ‘environment of spaces’\, enclosed
 \, semi-open and open. These spaces construct an opportunity for numerous 
 activities at different times of the day in the house and in the community
 . It offers multifunctional spaces within the single unit where the user c
 an create different living patterns based on different times of the day av
 oiding the stereotypical jail cell-like flats that people are forced to bu
 y. Instead\, it offers a place that fosters community living in apartments
  that behave like homes.\n\nRohan Chavan is an architect and deisgner\, fo
 under of RC Architects. He started his practice in Mumbai in 2015 to work 
 on projects related to public and community sanitation\, urban design\, af
 fordable housing\, single-family homes and institutions. His approach towa
 rd living patterns and bold spaces are the highlights of its design practi
 ce. He believes architecture as a science emerged from man's humble need f
 or shelter. A home is the purest form of design.\n\n—\n\nThis lecture is
  part of the lecture series "Affordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects"\n
 \nFor the Fall Lecture Series\, the School of Architecture at the EPFL has
  gathered six housing projects that address affordable housing in an exemp
 lary way. Each guest will present one project and explain in detail what i
 t means to produce good and affordable housing from commission to inhabita
 tion. The aim of these lectures is to not stare too romantically at afford
 able housing\, but rather to show how building affordable housing is both
  difficult and possible. The lecture series will be inaugurated by phil
 osopher Emanuele Coccia - author of the acclaimed book The Philosophy of 
 Home - who will introduce the house as a place where to imagine new and u
 nprecedented communities that can challenge the way in which we build and 
 inhabit housing today.\n\nIn the last decade\, housing is back in the arch
 itects’ agenda. Yet\, renewed interest in housing corresponds to a histo
 rical moment in which\, more than ever\, housing is considered a commodity
  to be bought\, sold and rented rather than a space to inhabit. While in t
 he hey-day of the welfare state\, legions of architects – often employed
  by the state – had the chance to develop large-scale housing complexes\
 , and to experiment with unprecedented possibilities in terms of typology 
 and technology\, today affordable housing is reduced to few interventions 
 in a desolate sea of commodified urbanization. Yet\, in spite of these hos
 tile conditions\, some recent housing projects have managed to reformulate
  what affordable housing can be in the 21th century. Although these projec
 ts do not match (yet) the scale and quantity of their 20th century predec
 essors\, they are innovative especially in terms of how people can live to
 gether more collectively and by allowing new types of households
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