Urban Living

Lecture by Jean-Philippe Vassal (Lacaton&Vassal, Paris, Jury member of the Urban Living workshop) and a discussion with the State Senate Department Director of Berlin, Regula Lüscher.

How can residential building strengthen urban structures and provide new opportunities through densification? How can monostructures be broken up and open spaces be upgraded? And how can architecture meet the requirements of new forms of cohabitation, either owing to a broader social mix or to the combination of living and working?

The newly published book Urban Living—Strategies for the Future presents convincing concepts, which show that affordable residential space can also have a high structural quality. Designs and solutions from the international Urban Living workshop, which more than thirty international architecture offices took part in, provide excellent examples of the potential qualities of future residential construction.

Lecture by Jean-Philippe Vassal (Lacaton&Vassal, Paris, Jury member of the Urban Living workshop) and a discussion with the State Senate Department Director of Berlin, Regula Lüscher.

How can residential building strengthen urban structures and provide new opportunities through densification? How can monostructures be broken up and open spaces be upgraded? And how can architecture meet the requirements of new forms of cohabitation, either owing to a broader social mix or to the combination of living and working?

The newly published book Urban Living—Strategies for the Future presents convincing concepts, which show that affordable residential space can also have a high structural quality. Designs and solutions from the international Urban Living workshop, which more than thirty international architecture offices took part in, provide excellent examples of the potential qualities of future residential construction.