SCUMMACUMFEMMER - San Riemo Cooperative Housing, Munich

Описание: School lecture series at EPFL Architecture
Tuesday 1st October 2024
EPFL, Foyer SG

This lecture is part of the lecture series "Affordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects"

San Riemo is an experimental, cooperative housing project in Munich. It is a built attempt to overcome conventional boundaries of living together, operating both with strict limitations and unexpected opportunities.

Join us to exchange with the architects Anne Femmer and Florian Summa, founders of the Leipzig office SUMMACUMFEMMER. Their realized projects include the experimental cooperative residential building San Riemo in Munich, which they designed collaboratively with Büro Juliane Greb. In 2023, they were co-curators of the German Pavilion at the 18th Architecture Biennale in Venice. They have taught at ETH Zurich, TU Munich and TU Graz and are currently visiting professors at the Berlin University of the Arts.

00:00 Introduction by Sophie Delhay
03:12 Lecture by Florian Summa
45:58 Q&A
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"Affordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects"

For the Fall 2024 Lecture Series, the School of Architecture at EPFL has gathered six housing projects that address affordable housing in an exemplary way. Each guest will present one project and explain in detail what it means to produce good and affordable housing from commission to inhabitation. The aim of these lectures is to not stare too romantically at affordable housing, but rather to show how building affordable housing is both difficult and possible. The lecture series will be inaugurated by philosopher Emanuele Coccia - author of the acclaimed book The Philosophy of Home - who will introduce the house as a place where to imagine new and unprecedented communities that can challenge the way in which we build and inhabit housing today.

In the last decade, housing is back in the architects’ agenda. Yet, renewed interest in housing corresponds to a historical moment in which, more than ever, housing is considered a commodity to be bought, sold and rented rather than a space to inhabit. While in the hey-day of the welfare state, legions of architects – often employed by the state – had the chance to develop large-scale housing complexes, and to experiment with unprecedented possibilities in terms of typology and technology, today affordable housing is reduced to few interventions in a desolate sea of commodified urbanization. Yet, in spite of these hostile conditions, some recent housing projects have managed to reformulate what affordable housing can be in the 21th century. Although these projects do not match (yet) the scale and quantity of their 20th century predecessors, they are innovative especially in terms of how people can live together more collectively and by allowing new types of households