Retrospective : Housing competitions
© 2012 EPFL
The main goal of this research, conducted with the financial support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, is to study the extremely rich, almost unedited material generated from architectural competitions for collective housing that have been organized in Switzerland during the last ten years.
We explore this unique platform of dialogue between the various actors in the housing market, and look at the latest architectural responses to the increasing social challenges generated by rapid changes in our living routines. We also look at the multiple implications of our contemporary notions of "shared" or "private" spaces in collective housing projects. A comparative analysis of selected projects was published in 2008, with a second edition in 2009. this work is at the top of best selling Swiss architectural books on Amazon.com.
B.Marchand A.Katsakou
Concevoir des logements: concours en Suisse 2000-2005 2008, PPur / ISNN-978-2-88074-553-0