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Real Estate Architecture : revisiting the apartment building
Joachim, Guillaume; Burquel, Benoît; Dumont, Martin
2016
 

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Keywords :
Real Estate Architecture; Modernist building; Prospective research; Urban Housing; Apartment building; Reconversion; Summer School; Liège; Research by Design
Abstract :
[en] LIÈGE, EARLY 1960S. AS IN OTHER EUROPEAN CITIES, THE REAL ESTATE BOOM HAS JUST BEGUN. AS GOOD MODERNISTS, THE MAYOR AND A BENCH OF PRIVATE DEVELOPERS THOUGHT TO RENOVATE THE HOUSING STOCK BY REPLACING THE OLD URBAN FABRIC WITH A NEW HOUSING TYPE : THE APARTMENT BUILDING. IN A 15-YEARS TIME, MOST OF THE 19TH CENTURY HOUSES ALONG THE QUAYS AND THE BOULEVARDS HAVE BEEN SUBSTITUTED BY 12-STOREY HIGH MODERNIST CONSTRUCTIONS. THIS TRANSFORMATION RADICALLY CHANGED THE SKYLINE AND THE IMAGE OF THE CITY. AFTER 50 YEARS, THESE BUILDINGS HAVE COME TO THE END OF A LIFE CYCLE. WITH THE RISING COST OF ENERGY, THE CHANGE IN SOCIETY AND THE EVOLUTION OF NORMS AND STANDARDS, THESE MODERN ‘ICONS’ ARE BECOMING OUTDATED. THERE IS A GROWING NEED TO RECONSIDER THIS TYPOLOGY AND TO THINK ITS POSSIBLE FUTURE. THE SUMMER SCHOOL WILL EXPLORE HOW ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTIONS COULD REVIVE THIS IMPORTANT HOUSING STOCK.
Disciplines :
Architecture
Author, co-author :
Joachim, Guillaume ;  Université de Liège > Département de la Faculté d'Architecture > Architecture Site Saint-Luc
Burquel, Benoît ;  Université de Liège > Département de la Faculté d'Architecture > Architecture Site Lambert Lombard
Dumont, Martin
Language :
English
Title :
Real Estate Architecture : revisiting the apartment building
Publication date :
10 July 2016
Number of pages :
84
Institution :
Université de Liège - Université de Gand
Name of the research project :
Real Estate Architecture
Funders :
Liège - Ville de Liège [BE]
Thomas & Piron
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