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SUMMARY:Housing  / SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES N°6
DTSTART:20241126T183000
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DESCRIPTION:Plan Comùn\nPLAN COMÙN\nArchitecture of Commons. La 'Maison 
 Commune’\n\nMaison Commune is a self-commissioned project\, a built mani
 festo and an open process with its inhabitants. A small housing project th
 at defines and highlights a sequence of shared spaces and the joy of every
 day life at all levels.\n\nFounded in 2012\, Plan Común provides strategi
 es to maximize and reinforce public and collective space -understood as a 
 key aspect of architecture\, regardless of its scale or program- by means 
 of simple architecture tools\, through a critical discourse\, research\, d
 esign and building. They are convinced that radical\, basic -even silent- 
 forms are more likely to be relevant and universal\, and serve as a suppor
 t for collective use and imagination.\n\n—\n\nThis lecture is part of th
 e lecture series "Affordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects"\n\nFor the F
 all Lecture Series\, the School of Architecture at the EPFL has gathered s
 ix housing projects that address affordable housing in an exemplary way. E
 ach guest will present one project and explain in detail what it means to 
 produce good and affordable housing from commission to inhabitation. The a
 im of these lectures is to not stare too romantically at affordable housin
 g\, but rather to show how building affordable housing is both difficult
  and possible. The lecture series will be inaugurated by philosopher Ema
 nuele Coccia - author of the acclaimed book The Philosophy of Home - who
  will introduce the house as a place where to imagine new and unprecedente
 d communities that can challenge the way in which we build and inhabit hou
 sing today.\n\nIn the last decade\, housing is back in the architects’ a
 genda. Yet\, renewed interest in housing corresponds to a historical momen
 t in which\, more than ever\, housing is considered a commodity to be boug
 ht\, sold and rented rather than a space to inhabit. While in the hey-day 
 of the welfare state\, legions of architects – often employed by the sta
 te – had the chance to develop large-scale housing complexes\, and to ex
 periment with unprecedented possibilities in terms of typology and technol
 ogy\, today affordable housing is reduced to few interventions in a desola
 te sea of commodified urbanization. Yet\, in spite of these hostile condit
 ions\, some recent housing projects have managed to reformulate what affor
 dable housing can be in the 21th century. Although these projects do not m
 atch (yet) the scale and quantity of their 20th century predecessors\, th
 ey are innovative especially in terms of how people can live together more
  collectively and by allowing new types of households
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