WORK DESCRIPTION:
Geneva context, the project will articulate around the question of the re-use of existing buildings built at the time of post-war economic booms, a prolific period of construction constituting a majority for the canton. If today some of these buildings possess an undeniable patrimonial value, others are not that much interesting and represent then a common heritage. Because of energy gaps or economic pretexts, this heritage is often dedicated to the destruction, following the example of buildings studied for this project, the Towers of the Rue des Maraîchers. First stakes in the workshop was to explore the possibilities of re-use and transformation of these buildings and to look for an alternative.
Secondly, the workshop focused on the understanding of the types of contemporary housing environments openly. Continually evolving, the lifestyles of our society are connected in our approach to living, and so, by questioning the typologies of housing in cohabitation, the workshop tried to meet the needs of current lifestyles. By leaving from the inside towards the outside, the project evoked the rhythms and the sequences of our everyday habits in an apartment building. We had thus tried to browse the elements which establish the contemporary housing environment including the materiality, the spatiality, and the light of ordinary architecture.
Project realized in trio with:
MARIE L. SCHILD & SONIA VETSCH
