Studio 'High-Rise Culture'

The Studio High-Rise Culture - offered by the section Public Building and Housing Design - seeks to address the ongoing urban densification by developing new typologies that will inject our cities with vibrant urban spaces, open and accessible, diverse and future-proof.

Due to issues of sustainability, the current housing crisis and changing lifestyles, there is an urgency to further densify our cities. A new wave of high-rises is being constructed, not only in the high-speed urbanizing economies of Asia and Africa, but also in the ageing cities on the European Continent.

How can, in high-rise developments, different housing typologies be combined with collective and public programs in order to have lively streets as well as the possibility to create vertical neighborhoods? What sort of city can we create with new vertical open forms, in which collective spaces that invite chance encounter, as well as generous and protective interiors of your private apartment, are combined?

The Studio High-Rise Culture will attempts to address those questions by setting up a collaboration between the Groups of Public Building and Architecture en Dwelling. Therefore tutoring sessions will be performed by members of both groups. Regular Studio sessions will be integrated by the contribution of external guests and lecturers.

The Studio High-Rise Culture is curiosity-driven and combines speculative architectural design with experiments in urban living. Students will develop design strategies according to an interdisciplinary perspective, which blends different tools physical and digital modeling, advanced architectural representation, conventional drawings.