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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Y. Dreier & E. Frenzel
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DESCRIPTION:Yves Dreier & Eik Frenzel\n08:45 – 09:30 – Y. Dreier & E. 
 Frenzel\nCo-CEOs at Dreier Frenzel Sàrl\, Switzerland\n\nThe Quest for a 
 New Domesticity\n\nHousing represents a major part of the built mass in ci
 ties all over the world. The transformation of society due to worldwide ov
 erpopulation and climate change requires the evolution of housing models a
 nd will therefore lead to changes in a large scale (urbanism\, public plac
 es\, lifestyles\, etc.). The urban typology of housing is more than ever i
 nfluenced by everyday collective life.Nowadays in Europe a rising number o
 f residents cannot find apartments that correspond with their lifestyle. T
 he classic family composition (2 parents with 2 children) no longer repres
 ents the societal standard. New forms of typologies (clusters\, shared apa
 rtments\, satellite\, joker rooms\, atelier apartments) have to be develop
 ed to correspond to new lifestyles. In the pursuit of densification of our
  cities\, we need to integrate individual needs to the collectivity in lar
 ge-scale housing projects.\nFor us the sustainability of buildings is an e
 nergetic\, ecological\, economic\, social and urban issue. Therefore\, we 
 willingly reintroduce proven architectural typologies (exterior staircase\
 , tempered winter gardens\, non-heated parts of the ground floor program) 
 in combination with a variety of materials that have been progressively ab
 andoned in the obsessive search for comfort throughout the 20th century. W
 e strive to strengthen the community through a new offer of collective ext
 erior spaces in analogy to village-structures. This will lead to buildings
  with an efficient layout with minimized heated areas\, generous collectiv
 e exterior spaces and low-tech construction principles which allow reducin
 g grey energy.\nThe teaching and research about the architectural expressi
 on and the interior Stimmung of housing related to a specific cultural\, c
 limatic and urban context and as a result of new lifestyles\, climate-awar
 e constructions and low-tech materials\, could be summarized as our quest 
 for a new domesticity.\n\n\nShort bio:\nGraduated in architecture at ETH Z
 urich and TU Dresden\, Yves Dreier and Eik Frenzel founded their office Dr
 eier Frenzel Architecture + Communication in 2008. It carries the idea of 
 dialogue in order to develop an adapted proposal to the complexity of a sp
 ecific context and the diversity of the contemporary society.\nTheir activ
 ities go beyond the mere desire to build and is willingly colored by exper
 imental and theoretical approaches. Their understanding of architecture as
  a democratic good was the foundation of many successful architecture comp
 etitions of emblematic projects such as “Ecoquartier Jonction” in Gene
 va\, residential building in Berlin\, housing in Renens or shared housing 
 for students in Meyrin.\nThrough a large variety of transdisciplinary coll
 aborations\, their work is anchored in a broader societal context. Amongst
  other academic engagements\, they had the opportunity to teach at EPFL as
  guest professors with housing as their main focus. Furthermore\, they cou
 ld win several national and international prizes for their artistic and ar
 chitectural production such as German Bauwelt Preis\, Swiss Art Awards or 
 Prix Vaudois pour la culture du bati.\nTheir innovative approach applies a
 cross a wide range of scales and develops a large panel of architectural a
 nd theoretical themes such as values of everyday life\, collective express
 ion of domesticity\, diversity of lifestyles and participatory democracy.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/85952892735
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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