School Lecture Series: Oliver Clemens, Anna Heilgemeir / EPFL Architecture
Event details
| Date | 29.04.2025 |
| Hour | 18:30 › 20:00 |
| Speaker | Oliver Clemens, Anna Heilgemeir |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
OLIVER CLEMENS, ANNA HEILGEMEIR
WiLMa 19 – Communal Living in collective Ownership
In 2014-2015, we converted a seven-storey GDR state security office building in Berlin into a collective housing project. The extremely low-budget refurbishment created diverse rental apartments (40–300 m²) for 60 people, countering rising rents and promoting inclusivity. Like 200 other German projects, Wilma19 is secured through the Mietshäuser Syndikat, a solidarity-based ownership network ensuring long-term affordability and community self-management.
Anna Heilgemeir is an architect and researcher living and working in Berlin. Since 2011 she has been developing, planning and realising projects in a network of politically engaged architects with a community-based focus. In 2017 she co-founded with this purpose the planning cooperative coopdisco. Since 2014, she has been teaching and researching definitions of 'spatial commons' at the Chair of Urban Design and Urbanisation at the TU Berlin. Her focus is on the transferability and scalability of bottom-up operating systems, and their potential to socialise the materialised outcomes of architecture and urban planning.
This lecture is part of the school lecture series
HOUSING VOL.2 - Housing and Reuse
Reuse of existing buildings is increasingly becoming a good practice. Yet, reuse is easier said than done. Within a capitalist society, buildings are produced as commodities and, as such, they are not meant to last. Moreover, what is at stake within reuse is not simply the reuse of buildings per se, but the whole process of building production behind each architectural project.
This lecture series explores projects of reuse in which former offices, factories, or houses are transformed 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 also 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".
WiLMa 19 – Communal Living in collective Ownership
In 2014-2015, we converted a seven-storey GDR state security office building in Berlin into a collective housing project. The extremely low-budget refurbishment created diverse rental apartments (40–300 m²) for 60 people, countering rising rents and promoting inclusivity. Like 200 other German projects, Wilma19 is secured through the Mietshäuser Syndikat, a solidarity-based ownership network ensuring long-term affordability and community self-management.
Anna Heilgemeir is an architect and researcher living and working in Berlin. Since 2011 she has been developing, planning and realising projects in a network of politically engaged architects with a community-based focus. In 2017 she co-founded with this purpose the planning cooperative coopdisco. Since 2014, she has been teaching and researching definitions of 'spatial commons' at the Chair of Urban Design and Urbanisation at the TU Berlin. Her focus is on the transferability and scalability of bottom-up operating systems, and their potential to socialise the materialised outcomes of architecture and urban planning.
This lecture is part of the school lecture series
HOUSING VOL.2 - Housing and Reuse
Reuse of existing buildings is increasingly becoming a good practice. Yet, reuse is easier said than done. Within a capitalist society, buildings are produced as commodities and, as such, they are not meant to last. Moreover, what is at stake within reuse is not simply the reuse of buildings per se, but the whole process of building production behind each architectural project.
This lecture series explores projects of reuse in which former offices, factories, or houses are transformed 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 also 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".
Practical information
- General public
- Free