Housing functions: towards a new understanding of flexibility in architecture
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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 ...
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 ...
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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? ...
Problem. Housing is a major contributor to Switzerland's carbon footprint and energy consumption, but it is also a basic need. Research on climate change mitigation strategies has so far paid insufficient attention to households' preferences and their cont ...
Responsibility—as an analytic or topic of political debate—is out of vogue in critical housing studies. Rather than offering progressive potential, the call for responsibility has been seen to foster neoliberal governance, racial structural violence, and f ...
Research problem: Housing is responsible for a considerable part of global resource consumption. In Switzerland, it accounts for almost one third of the country's CO2 emissions and half of the total energy demand. Thus, housing plays an important role in t ...
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To respond to the need for a drastic reduction in the environmental footprint of housing, the residential sector must meet a wide range of requirements. The opportunities for architecture are innumerable but cannot be grasped by the discipline alone. Housi ...