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Mulhouse, France

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Mulhouse, France

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Toa Architects, victorious in the Europan 3 competition, secured a contract to design a youth hostel funded by Mulhouse Habitat and the PUCA. The "experimental project" prioritized architectural flexibility, creating a transformative space that seamlessly transitions from private to communal areas, promoting resident autonomy and social interaction.

Date

  • 2003: Construction

Stakeholders

  • Architect: TOA architectes

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Mulhouse
Country/Region: France, Mulhouse

Description

After the Europan 3 competition, the winning team Toa architects get a contract for a young workers hostel, financed by Mulhouse Habitat and the PUCA (Urban Planning, Architecture and Construction) with 82 bedrooms, common areas and public facilities.

The “experimental project” label and the great involvement of the client allowed architectural dispensations and the possible interpretation by the team of the rules in order to create a mixed space where uses would have the ability to modify relationships between people.

The architecture operates like a filter, expressing the gradual movement from privacy to sociability, at both individual and group scale. Two buildings are positioned parallel to the street: the first, lower building, accommodates the communal spaces that are open to the districts, together with the spaces representing the institution; the second, three-storey building, is set back, and contains the living areas and communal spaces associated with the residential function. A basement level garden organises the relation between the two buildings and offers an intimacy space, protector, more private.

The centre is designed to give the resident’s choice, the meeting or avoidance, balance between independence and communal living: choice in the residential access routes to the living spaces, choice to live at home or to enjoy sociability spaces, choice in the housing interior of several configurations through the interplay of dual-position swing doors.

The housing units also reflect the variety of demand, ranging in type from maximum autonomy to maximum communality. All aimed at favouring random meetings, internal evolution, the passage from solitude, to life as two, as, couple, a family with children: “maisonnette”, single rooms, paired rooms, adaptable rooms for couples or single-parent families, shared apartments for four residents.

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IQ innerstädtische Wohnquartiere

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Europan-Selb

IQ innerstädtische Wohnquartiere

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Date

  • 2016: Construction

Stakeholders

  • Architect: TallerDE2
  • Architect: Gutiérrez-delaFuente

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Selb
Country/Region: Germany

Description

1st Prize Implementation: IQ Experimental Subsidized Housing in Selb (IQ innerstädtische Wohnquartiere) is a state-subsidized program included in an experimental regional initiative from the Bavarian Ministry of Construction to revitalize the central areas of a group of selected cities in Bavaria, Germany. The construction of the IQ Housing Project is the result of the 1st Prize won in the Invited International Competition «IQ Innerstädtische Wohnquartiere».

Urban regeneration: this new input from the regional government of Bavaria fits perfectly and is smoothly integrated in the Europan 9 open-process of urban regeneration for the iiner city of Selb. The IQ Project followa the main principles of the Preventive Urban Acupuncture Therapy started in 2008: it´s focused in the revitalization of the inner city, is an architecture intervention with a strong urban impact (connecting two different levels of the city), and is oriented to young families, completing the Europan 9 demographic-oriented projects for babies, children, teenagers and young people.
Revisiting the everyday life: the residential program is composed of 26 apartments for young families, with parking lots, cellars, and a district heating biomass power plant. The urban layout is an answer to the local climate in order to establish democratic sunlight conditions, giving also, the same cross-ventilation features to all. The sun is the dominant vector in the project. The blocks are artitulated with a type of half-open hallways, with permeable facades, working as thermal regulators and providing the first shared space for the community. The apartments are designed around an outdoor and covered loggia, a green-room which is always oriented to the sun. The housing units are organized with a strip of services and installations, which frees the rest of areas making possible many settings throughout the time.

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Trondheim, Norway

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Trondheim, Norway

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Date

  • 2022: Construction

Stakeholders

  • Architect: Murado & Elvira Architecture

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Trondheim
Country/Region: Norway, Trondheim

Description

Teknobyen – Student housing in Throndheim (NO) The project unifies situations of extreme intimacy with those of extroversion and collaboration. A room is a powerful mechanism that allows the expansion of the identity, self-recognition and reaffirmation, interchange and negotiation. One’s own space is a laboratory where to test abilities that later will be experienced in every act of social interaction. Teknobyen student’s housing proposes the compression, transfer and conditioning of the relational capacities of urban space. It understands the program of necessities as a powerful design tool and key factor to improve the way we live and relate to each other.

Assuming the existing urban conditions, the student housing detaches as much as possible from the surrounding buildings and shapes its volume in order to extract potential from the views and sun. Open-air terraces are spread around the building. Through them, students can experience ourside conditions and relate with the city and the far views.

The core of the building contains a multipurpose lounge with no hierarchy, or spatial definition, in which different ambiances are located. It is a mixed-use two-story hyperlounge an unregulated mixing chamber of possible actions. Room floors surround this lounge.

Students share this flexible lounge and a self managed ‘ultrakitchen’, and experimental space conceived for the use and enjoyment of 116 students at the same time, a 24/7 sort of social sustainability condenser. In order to stress a local initiative that intends to promote Trondheim as a wood-friendly city, and also seeking new challenges about wood use in large buildings, the entire exterior volume of the buildings is cladded with fir (pine) wooden planks, displaying different treatments, compositions and layouts.

Thus, the building assumes a very tight budget, neglecting the use of sopbhisticated material solutions and embracing common and traditional technology, but applying in a contemporary way. Although it is technically modest, it is performatively ambitious.

Sustainability Co-Responsibility devices are implemented in order to share the energetic and waste management.

Instead of ans isolated and self-referential object, the result is an unassuming building that sets a dialogue with the city and its codes, focusing on the creation of a collective experience and in a sense of social responsibility.

The building has been nominated to the Norwegian National Building Prizxe in 2012 and has won the Trondheim Kommune Energy Saving Prize.

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Wien, Austria

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Wien, Austria

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Date

  • 2022: Construction

Stakeholders

  • Architect: Arenas Basabe Palacios arquitectos

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Vienna
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Description

The process has been a collective effort based on negotiation, in collaboration with the local architectural team, Mascha & Seethaler, management experts (Raum&Co), mobility (Traffix), landscaping (Land in Sicht), energy or sociology, as well as representatives of the neighborhood, the soil promoters (ARE) and the MA21 office of the Vienna City Council; all of them active participants in the design process. The team published the story of this collaborative process as a comic (“Commons”), from the winning project of the Europan 10 competition in Vienna and its later development with a multidisciplinary team until its definitive passing by the Vienna City Council. “Commons” obtained recognition as an example of innovative, sustainable and democratic urbanism.

One of the most challenging issues of today is the question whether housing in itself, as a programme, has the power to generate an urban neighbouthood. “Garden>Courtyard” plays the ball straight back to the municipality, developers and users, suggesting an extrapolated concept of mixing with just a single programme-housing: housing with diverse models of living, diverse models of sharing, diverse models of developing, diverse models of financing, diverse models of landscaping, diverse models of maintaining.

Once the masterplan approved, the landowner (ARE, Austrian Real State) commissioned multiple architecture teams as well as different sporsors to develop an edification design. In the partnership with the Viennese enterprise for social housing and different cooperatives, a collaborative democratic and plural urbanism process was created. Arenas Basabe Palacios was commissioned with the design and execution of 11 housing blocks in different scales, including 82 housing units with a total of 9500 m2 constructed surface containing community spaces, shared parking facilities for bicycles and commercial spaces in the ground floor for zone.

The design respects the original urban idea and furthermore creates new potential based on the garden-matrix, which is structuring the new district. Each block is constructed around its garden while edification varies in height, bay and edification type: constructions of small scale (size S) contain single-family housing and duplex; Medium-scaled buildings (size M) as their taller complements (size L) serve as collective housing blocks and develop a diverse and porous urban process.

The materiality of the buildings accentuates this idea: Ceramic colour facades are facing the sun, while all living spaces are south-orientated and opened towards the garden. The more intimate bedrooms can be accessed through privacy filters in form of halls which contain service rooms installations and space for storage.

The dwelling´s interiors reflect the characteristic construction system: together with white carpentry, visible vertically perforated bricks (“Hochlochziegel”) are creating a sequence of neutral, flexible and reconfigurable spaces.

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Zaanstad, Netherlands 

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Zaanstad, Netherlands 

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Date

  • 2000: Construction

Stakeholders

  • Architect: Tania Concko
  • Architect: Pierre Gautier

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Amsterdam
Country/Region: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Description

In this project the characteristic and qualities of the site and the memories of an industrial past –the river Zaan was the chief arterial route– have been take as the guiding principle in the design. The assignment comprised three major elements: in the first place the residential function of the site had to be reinforced; in the second place the relationship between the site and the adjacent residential areas required intensification and finally an open green space had to be created along the Zaan. The architects restored the original zoning of the site into separate plots. The plots are separated from each other and from the waterside- the Oostzijde- by water. They are conceived as islands. The separate plots and platforms are framed by a structure of boardwalks which form the open space on the scale of the town. It is a promenade, running along the Zann open to everyone and keeps the memory of the maritime past of the site alive. Tania Concko and Pierre Gautier designed the masterplan of the whole area. It served as document on the basic of which the 3 teams of architects involved in the design, can develop the residential blocks and it defined the architectural brief. In the housing the idea of spaciousness is created through the use of vacant space. So a flexible and differentiated use of the housing is possible. Another characteristic feature for is its double orientation as well as a transition zone between along the façade which can function as a balcony, sun lounge, winter garden or as an extension of the housing unit.

Tania Concko and Pierre Gautier had to supervise the architectural elaborations and they had to design four buildings (2 high blocks along the Zaan and 2 low blocs along the Oostzijde), the platforms with car park and the collective and public exterior spaces.

55 affordable housing units using prefabricated construction systems

45 housing units combining home-working, starters, social & private homes in an hybrid urban block.

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