Join us this Friday at 12:30 for a round table discussion on Berlin Co-Housing, Higher Density, and Affordability! This lecture is part of our special BOLIGLABORATORIUM housing exhibit; for more info, check out our Housing Lab page.
How do we envision the future of housing in Portland and the Pacific Northwest? The current exhibition by Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab at PSU’s School of Architecture offers a basis to investigate housing models responsive to imminent urban challenges, diverse ways of living, and climate-conscious lifestyles. We invite you to join our panel discussions focusing on designs for new housing types, exploring the existing diversity of families and households, community-oriented projects, sustainable approaches for urban density, and policies promoting affordable and vibrant neighborhood developments.
This Friday, we delve into co-housing projects in Berlin, Germany. We will be joined by Verena von Beckerath (Heide & von Beckerath Architekten; Professor of Design & Housing, Bauhaus University Weimar), Florian Koehl (fatkoehl Architekten), and Gudrun Sack (Nägeli Architekten) to learn about co-housing projects in Berlin as a concept to provide affordable housing in a highly pressurized urban housing situation. The presentations will address the unique situation of co-housing developments in Berlin over the past two decades, from design approaches to social and cultural settings to financial models. The following discussion will focus on locally specific variations and outcomes of co-housing projects to explore the delineations between general principles of co-housing types and locally, culturally, and socially conditioned particularities within the co-housing concept.
Our panel: Verena von Beckerath from Heide & von Beckerath, Florian Koehl from Fatkoehl Architekten, Gudrun Sack from Nägeli Architekten. Moderated by our PSU Architecture faculty member Anna Weichsel.
What is Friday@1?
On most Fridays at 1 p.m. during the academic term, PSU School of Architecture students and faculty gather to hear from professional designers and architects, academics, visiting artists, innovators, and students in the program. Friday@1 is a perfect way to wrap up each week of intense creativity in the studio and get inspired for the productive weekend ahead.
Free and Open to the public. All are welcome.