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SUMMARY:School Lecture Series: Oliver Clemens\, Anna Heilgemeir / EPFL Arc
 hitecture
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Oliver Clemens\, Anna Heilgemeir\nOLIVER CLEMENS\, ANNA HEILGE
 MEIR\nWiLMa 19 – Communal Living in collective Ownership\n\nIn 2014-2015
 \, we converted a seven-storey GDR state security office building in Berli
 n into a collective housing project. The extremely low-budget refurbishmen
 t created diverse rental apartments (40–300 m²) for 60 people\, counter
 ing rising rents and promoting inclusivity. Like 200 other German projects
 \, Wilma19 is secured through the Mietshäuser Syndikat\, a solidarity-bas
 ed ownership network ensuring long-term affordability and community self-m
 anagement.\n\nOliver Clemens is a freelance architect and\, together with 
 Sabine Horlitz\, founder and partner of the architectural firm Studio CHpl
 us. Committed to the goals of social urban and real estate development\, S
 tudio CHplus works primarily for tenant projects and non-profit organizati
 ons. The question of how architecture can meaningfully shape society is ce
 ntral to this. They understand architectural production as an interplay of
  design as well as social and ecological issues. Aesthetics and use should
  complement each other productively and not be opposed to each other. They
  have extensive expertise and many years of experience in the field of low
 -cost housing\, in project development\, financing\, support and implement
 ation of self-managed housing projects as well as in research into communi
 ty housing and non-profit ownership models.\n\nAnna Heilgemeir is an archi
 tect and researcher living and working in Berlin. Since 2011 she has been 
 developing\, planning and realising projects in a network of politically e
 ngaged architects with a community-based focus. In 2017 she co-founded wit
 h this purpose the planning cooperative coopdisco. Since 2014\, she has be
 en teaching and researching definitions of 'spatial commons' at the Chair 
 of Urban Design and Urbanisation at the TU Berlin. Her focus is on the tra
 nsferability and scalability of bottom-up operating systems\, and their po
 tential to socialise the materialised outcomes of architecture and urban p
 lanning.\n\nThis lecture is part of the school lecture series\nHOUSING VOL
 .2 - Housing and Reuse\n\nReuse of existing buildings is increasingly beco
 ming a good practice. Yet\, reuse is easier said than done. Within a capit
 alist society\, buildings are produced as commodities and\, as such\, they
  are not meant to last. Moreover\, what is at stake within reuse is not si
 mply the reuse of buildings per se\, but the whole process of building pro
 duction behind each architectural project.\n\nThis lecture series explores
  projects of reuse in which former offices\, factories\, or houses are tra
 nsformed or expanded as residential spaces. Each lecture will focus on one
  building in order to shed light not only on the advantages of reuse but a
 lso on its limits and challenges. The lecture series will be complemented 
 by the launch of Professor Charlotte Malterre-Barthes’s A "Moratorium on
  New Construction".
LOCATION:Foyer SG https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%20294.22
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