Revisiting the Emmahuis: Designing livable architecture in a rapidly densifying Rotterdam

A financialized housing market entails systemic shortage of affordable housing. Rotterdam’s continuous increase of real estate prices is a case in point: despite its high share of social housing, today Rotterdam faces a shortage of affordable dwellings for lower income groups. How can collective housing design promote social inclusion and reduce...

Makers Mix Workhome: A return of dwelling and fabrication within the city

Over the previous two decades people all over the world have been increasingly working from home or living at their workplace with the global North especially seeing a resurgence in this form of living. With the restrictions imposed on travel and social distancing at work brought about by the current COVID-19 pandemic ,however,this trend has...