#14 WHAT CITY?
In the lap of the gods
Why the talk is inspiring?
The lecture will present different projects and researches of the STAR strategies + architecture focusing on one of the latest project entitled “Co-Residence: Habiter en Grand”. Co-Residence applies the contemporary spirit of ‘sharing’ that is being more and more adopted in our culture in the form of co-working, bicycle sharing systems, or car-pooling, to housing. It is the ambitious idea that the domestic scale, the 1:100, the apartment floor plan, can contribute to solving a problem on a metropolitan scale, the 1:100.000. And therefore everything that matters at the metropolitan level: Density, Activity, Proximity, Governance… will be extrapolated to the most minimal expression of ‘urban planning’: the apartment.
The conversation is arranged in collaboration with VGTU Faculty of Architecture.
2014
Speaker
Beatriz Ramo
How the speaker is exceptional?
Beatriz Ramo is an architect and urban designer from Spain. She lives in Rotterdam where she founded STAR strategies + architecture in 2006. STAR is a practice dealing with architecture in all its forms.Several prizes in international competitions for architecture and urban planning in the Netherlands, China, Iceland, Lebanon, Norway, France and Spain have gained STAR international recognition. Since 2012 Beatriz Ramo is part of the Scientific Council of the AIGP – Atelier International du Grand Paris, together with 13 other architects advising the French Government about the development of the Parisian metropolis and working in research projects such as the ‘Co-Résidence’. STAR remains continuously active in research and writings. Beatriz Ramo collaborates with MONU magazine as contributing/managing editor, and she worked at OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture before founding STAR.
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