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Human settlements can be rethought in the interest of reducing resource consumption while enhancing the human potential for progress through new sharing models leading to health, happiness and well being. Taking note of the growing imbalances in current urbanisation, the studio will use integral thinking thereby addressing environmental, social and economic impacts of development. New models of living will be envisaged with a greater sense of community where self-reliant people can live together in a relatively small area and yet find the diversity and all the useful services that can be accessed by foot. These projects could be primarily built out of local materials and local skills improving thereby local economy, while reducing the environmental impact. 

The studio will investigate urban co-housing prototypes with a focus on redefinition of private and shared spaces in the context of community living. The context of the project is Berlin, where co-housing will build on previous collective living experiences and explore new models of living alongside an emerging urban future in terms of mobility, circular economy and green infrastructure.

Our design studio will incorporate the JOANES-Preis student competition, focusing on designing future-oriented cooperative housing (genossenschaftlicher Wohnungsbau) with commercial spaces on the ground floor for a real site in Berlin. The design ideas from the winning projects will be further developed by the participating students in a workshop process during the summer of 2025.