The architecture in the building ‘social’ advance to the conference of 29 September to Cersaie

On September 29, 2010 at Cersaie, we discuss architecture for public housing. From the “housing” to the co-housing, the demand for social housing has evolved dramatically – Wednesday, September 29 at 9:30 and 11:30 am – To call into question the very concept of private and public spaces. Cersaie two meetings with the participation of social scientists and professionals of international reputation of living.

Social housing in our country has a long history: already in 1904 a state law called it the logical and methodological assumptions. The house is a right, and it is up to society to work to ensure that housing becomes accessible to segments of the population who, for various reasons, are marginalized.

If you could sum up a century and more of story with few words, it could be argued as a social housing has been progressively transformed, from every point of view, building “social”. The point – perfectly summed up the English expression “social housing” – today is not, or only, to offer a home for those who do not can afford it, but in different ways to respond to a request expressed by the society at all levels – not only disadvantaged strata – and inextricably bound to the more general transformations involving the lifestyles and, by analogy, urban areas. It speaks to Cersaie in two separate meetings to be held in the series “Building, Dwelling, Thinking.” The first, “Urban areas and migration”- Which will take place Wednesday, September 29 at 9:30 at the Gallery of Architecture – will see the actions of Claudio Baraldi, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Modena. The word then Michael Keith, professor of sociology at the University of Oxford and director of Compas (Centre of Migration, Policy and Society). Finally Iervese Vittorio, who teaches Sociology of Culture and Theory and methods of cultural promotion at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Whole neighborhoods changing face, new citizens – like it or not – become part of the urban fabric, giving it a new mark and indelible. New buildings and neighborhoods, then, while the old houses, often the same city centers are transformed in parallel with the lifestyles of the inhabitants. Changeable by definition, the city is not a mere collection of houses, but also a place where there are common spaces, the spaces of sociability, another cornerstone of the modern concept of social housing.

Too bad having to resort to another English word, but it’s worth remembering how the social housing has found one of the best achievements in the concept of co-housing, real new frontier of housing, where even the dogma of private place as distinct from a public place, as opposed to the private sphere of the public sphere – echoing the famous metaphor of Habermas memory – becomes more nuanced and, ultimately, obsolete.

Spaces and communal services, in short: not only porches or patios, but real portion of the building that became the hub of the home of “cohousers” from local service to those for the holidays or in which devote to hobbies, from the playroom children to the bedrooms for guests, even the kitchen. Pioneers, from this point of view, new ways of experiencing the home, to understand the concept of the family, the Northern Europeans have excellent experiences in assets this way, which involve significant repercussions in terms of environmental sustainability and in parallel, the possible economic benefits.

But to tell the truth when it comes to social housing – and possibly co-housing that is a happy variation – often encounter two worldviews, two ways of understanding the living spaces and the same urban space. A stimulating debate and will be discussed at the highest level “Social housing: micro and macro”To be held on the same day of September 29 to 11, after a meeting dedicated to urban areas and migration.

Face to face, in this case, between the approach high density Study Dutch MVRDV – represented by the architect Natalie De Vries – and those of the Cino Zucchi, who prefers an idea of ??the density based on medium-low. Acting as moderator, providing a further contribution to the debate, Professor Fulvio Irace, Polidesign architect and lecturer at the Consorzio del Politecnico di Milano born with the objective of providing innovative solutions in terms of projects and proposals in a technological context, productive and professional in constant evolution.

Evolving so that it becomes difficult to take sides, a priori, for a given model. In the background, it remains a certainty in a world where our houses will be something different from the past, in a world where, for example, business travelers, tourists, those who live learning experience but also Who wants to start a family, will have new “homes sociable,” there will be an increasing need for architecture, dwelling professionals willing to compete with these new requirements, thus giving concrete answers to expectations.