Affordable Living—Housing for Everyone

AIT ArchitekturSalon Pop-UP presents the exhibition “Affordable Living” as part of the first international festival for architecture and urban alternatives, MAKE CITY, taking part in the conversation about new and innovative forms of living.

Housing is a basic need that, for many all over the world, remains unmet or inadequate. In order to ensure the availability of quality living space for everyone, architecture and urban development can contribute significantly to finding new solutions. The challenge of affordable housing lies in achieving an optimum relationship between costs and the “home quality“ value, which is dependent on many local parameters and cultural preferences. In light of this and based on examples of exceptional residential buildings, this book presents not only theoretical approaches but also strategies for creating affordable living spaces. These strategies can be compared by analyzing projects in their economic, social, and urban development contexts. The central question is: how can different approaches for creating affordable residential space be applied and translated to other contexts?

The exhibition is based on the publication Affordable Living - Housing for everyone (edited by Klaus Dömer, Hans Drexler, Joachim Schultz-Granberg). Using exemplary projects from international architects like Gaupenraub +/-, Lacaton & Vassal or Urbanus, it shows the problems, potentials, and dependencies that different approaches bring with them and how these impact our reality of living.

AIT ArchitekturSalon Pop-UP presents the exhibition “Affordable Living” as part of the first international festival for architecture and urban alternatives, MAKE CITY, taking part in the conversation about new and innovative forms of living.

Housing is a basic need that, for many all over the world, remains unmet or inadequate. In order to ensure the availability of quality living space for everyone, architecture and urban development can contribute significantly to finding new solutions. The challenge of affordable housing lies in achieving an optimum relationship between costs and the “home quality“ value, which is dependent on many local parameters and cultural preferences. In light of this and based on examples of exceptional residential buildings, this book presents not only theoretical approaches but also strategies for creating affordable living spaces. These strategies can be compared by analyzing projects in their economic, social, and urban development contexts. The central question is: how can different approaches for creating affordable residential space be applied and translated to other contexts?

The exhibition is based on the publication Affordable Living - Housing for everyone (edited by Klaus Dömer, Hans Drexler, Joachim Schultz-Granberg). Using exemplary projects from international architects like Gaupenraub +/-, Lacaton & Vassal or Urbanus, it shows the problems, potentials, and dependencies that different approaches bring with them and how these impact our reality of living.