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The energy transition in Switzerland requires refurbishing 80% of the buildings stock, which will mobilize up to 70% of the construction workforce, leaving nearly no one to build new homes. How can we then accommodate 10.4 million people in 2050? ...

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Frihet, sikkerhet, forstaden: Brev fra Amerika

Nagy Makhlouf

Why have countries formerly leading public policies of housing – Norway, the U.K., France, etc. – shifted towards privatizing accommodation from the late 1970s? Have these States merely let go of housing and handed it over to private interests in the name ...

2024

Don’t Romanticize the Process! An Interview with Lacol on Housing and Cooperatives

Theodora Giovanazzi, Constantinos Marcou, Jolanda Devalle

Founded a decade ago in 2014, Barcelona-based practice Lacol defines itself as an “architecture cooperative.” Comprising a team of fourteen multidisciplinary professionals, Lacol operates across five axes: construction, cooperative housing, participation, ...

2024

Subaltern housing policies: Accommodating migrant workers in wealthy Geneva

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Maxime Carl Felder

In the wealthy and orderly city of Geneva, Switzerland, accommodation centres built in haste between the 1950s and the 1980s to house seasonal guestworkers from southern Europe are still standing and still inhabited. Today's residents are precarious worker ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2023

‘Monsieur, I have a wife and child, a house and a garden, et alors?’

Sila Karatas

Marshall Plan, officially operated from 1948 to 1952 for reconstruction and development in Europe and non-European countries such as Turkey and Switzerland, marks the Cold War economy-political and foreign policy of the US. Referred by its bureaucrats as “ ...

2023

Provision of housing services within planetary limits: A methodological framework for the urban circular economy

Ankita Singhvi

The provision of decent housing for all is a core sustainable development goal (SDG) and a fundamental human right. However, the construction sector is the world's largest consumer of raw materials, and 40% of global CO2 emissions are attributed to housing ...

2023

Improving the use of the housing stock to reduce its environmental impact

Philippe Thalmann

In the future, the existing housing stock should be improved while less new dwellings are built. This improvement will take the form of energy-efficient renovation as well as by encouraging cohabitation and reducing the amount of living space occupied per ...

Swiss National Science Foundation2023

Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

Paola Viganò, Stéphane Joost, Dusan Licina, Idris Guessous, Anna Pagani, Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Mathias Lerch, Catarina Wall Gago, Derek Pierre Christie

As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...

2023

Poverty and Architecture: The Fuggerei as an Early Example of Affordable Housing

Theodora Giovanazzi

As Rafael Moneo asserted in his seminal article “On Typology,” the emergence of a new type can be considered a tangible signifier of changed architectural and historical circumstances, new modes of production, or social attitudes towards specific subjectiv ...

2023

Marshall Plan’s workers’ housing program and trade union cooperatives in France and Turkey

Sila Karatas

Marshall Plan (1948-1952), introduced for postwar reconstruction in Europe, marks the Cold War economy-political and foreign policy of the US. Besides building the Western Bloc, its financial and technical assistance programs launched the self-help paradig ...

2023

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