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SUMMARY:Housing  / SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES N°7
DTSTART:20241216T183000
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DESCRIPTION:Philipp Esch\nESCH SINTZEL ARCHITEKTEN\nPermanence and transie
 nce - Converting a warehouse into a collective residential building\n\nAs 
 a residential building\, the former warehouse is actually entering its thi
 rd life. It is prototypical not only because of the reuse of existing buil
 ding structure\, but also because of the communal programming.\n\nThe inqu
 iries addressed by Esch Sintzel revolve around the creation of places. «P
 lace» is space that is experienced – assimilated\, laden with significa
 nce and bound to time. Therefore it is no coincidence that housing constit
 utes one of the main focuses of Esch Sintzel’s work in that no other arc
 hitectural undertaking intervenes more directly in life – in the life of
  the city\, of the community\, of the individual.\n\n—\n\nThis lecture i
 s part of the lecture series "Affordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects"\
 n\nFor the Fall Lecture Series\, the School of Architecture at the EPFL ha
 s gathered six housing projects that address affordable housing in an exem
 plary way. Each guest will present one project and explain in detail what 
 it means to produce good and affordable housing from commission to inhabit
 ation. The aim of these lectures is to not stare too romantically at affor
 dable 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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