Housing / SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES N°4
Event details
| Date | 29.10.2024 |
| Hour | 18:30 |
| Speaker | Peris+Toral Arquitectes |
| Location |
Foyer SG
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
PERIS+TORAL ARQUITECTES
Modulus Matrix
The MODULUS MATRIX project is a social housing initiative in Cornellà that addresses current housing challenges through innovative strategies. These strategies include the concepts of “indifferentiation” and “dehier archization,” achieved by designing equal rooms connected through enfilades that promote spatial porosity.
The architecture firm PERIS+TORAL ARQUITECTES, based in Barcelona and founded by Marta Peris and José Toral, is dedicated to researching new ways of living associated with innovative construction methods. Their focus is on addressing the challenges of the climate emergency and housing.
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This lecture is part of the lecture series "Affordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects"
For the Fall Lecture Series, the School of Architecture at the EPFL has gathered six housing projects that address affordable housing in an exemplary way. Each guest will present one project and explain in detail what it means to produce good and affordable housing from commission to inhabitation. The aim of these lectures is to not stare too romantically at affordable housing, but rather to show how building affordable housing is both difficult and possible. The lecture series will be inaugurated by philosopher Emanuele Coccia - author of the acclaimed book The Philosophy of Home - who will introduce the house as a place where to imagine new and unprecedented communities that can challenge the way in which we build and inhabit housing today.
In the last decade, housing is back in the architects’ agenda. Yet, renewed interest in housing corresponds to a historical 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 the 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 hostile conditions, some recent housing projects have managed to reformulate what affordable housing can be in the 21th century. Although these projects do not match (yet) the scale and quantity of their 20th century predecessors, they are innovative especially in terms of how people can live together more collectively and by allowing new types of households.
Modulus Matrix
The MODULUS MATRIX project is a social housing initiative in Cornellà that addresses current housing challenges through innovative strategies. These strategies include the concepts of “indifferentiation” and “dehier archization,” achieved by designing equal rooms connected through enfilades that promote spatial porosity.
The architecture firm PERIS+TORAL ARQUITECTES, based in Barcelona and founded by Marta Peris and José Toral, is dedicated to researching new ways of living associated with innovative construction methods. Their focus is on addressing the challenges of the climate emergency and housing.
—
This lecture is part of the lecture series "Affordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects"
For the Fall Lecture Series, the School of Architecture at the EPFL has gathered six housing projects that address affordable housing in an exemplary way. Each guest will present one project and explain in detail what it means to produce good and affordable housing from commission to inhabitation. The aim of these lectures is to not stare too romantically at affordable housing, but rather to show how building affordable housing is both difficult and possible. The lecture series will be inaugurated by philosopher Emanuele Coccia - author of the acclaimed book The Philosophy of Home - who will introduce the house as a place where to imagine new and unprecedented communities that can challenge the way in which we build and inhabit housing today.
In the last decade, housing is back in the architects’ agenda. Yet, renewed interest in housing corresponds to a historical 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 the 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 hostile conditions, some recent housing projects have managed to reformulate what affordable housing can be in the 21th century. Although these projects do not match (yet) the scale and quantity of their 20th century predecessors, they are innovative especially in terms of how people can live together more collectively and by allowing new types of households.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- EPL Architecture
Pier Vittorio Aureli
Sophie Delhay
Contact
- Elena Chiavi