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BA & MA Studio, WiSe 24/25
Rethinking the Co – A Cooperative Housing Project in Berlin
worked as teaching assistant at FG Making Matters
Technical University Berlin
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 used integral thinking, thereby addressing environmental, social, and economic impacts of development. New models of living were envisaged with a greater sense of community, where self-reliant people could 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 were primarily built (conceptually) out of local materials and local skills, improving the local economy while reducing environmental impact.
The studio investigated urban co-housing prototypes with a focus on redefinition of private and shared spaces in the context of community living. The project context was Berlin, where co-housing built on previous collective living experiences and explored new models of living alongside an emerging urban future in terms of mobility, circular economy, and green infrastructure.
