campUAS

Lebensräume neu denken: Bestandsbau und urbane Transformation.

Hanauer Landstraße 208 -216

>Focus

Firstly, we propose to reflect on and explore contemporary ways of living and develop an architectural proposal understood as an infrastructure for different ways of living collectively.

Secondly, and in parallel and indissolubly, we will work from material and constructive strategies that respond to criteria of simplicity, flexibility and sustainability.

To this end, we will develop a collective housing project to be built in wood and which will be located in the new urban development of the port of Offenbach am Main.

During the course we will address the definitions of the functional programme, the insertion in the site, the definition of spaces, forms and volumes, as well as their materiality, structure and construction system in detail 1/10.

>Statement

In addition, the time we live in one place or another is becoming shorter and shorter. People are moving, changing cities, jobs and even families more frequently. Rarely does a person or family remain in the same dwelling for a lifetime; and even less often does a dwelling continue to be inhabited by the children of the previous family.

How then do we design spaces for that diversity, and how do we design for their transformation and adaptability?

On the other hand, given the temporal, economic and ecological effort of any construction, how do we design for flexible and adaptive durability? How do we do so in order to reduce the impact of our actions on the environmental balance?

In this sense, we propose to design with forms, dispositions and materials that demand and consume as little energy as possible. In particular, we propose a timber construction that, together with its richness and spatial possibilities, is adaptable and reversible.