Earth, Timber, Stone
While earth, timber and stone are very traditional materials, they have never really been used for collective housing
Sponsored by Architectural Record | Presented by Marta Peris + José Toral
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While earth, timber and stone are very traditional materials, they have never really been used for collective housing. In this course, Marta Peris and José Toral, founding partners of Barcelona-based Peris +Toral Arquitectes, share the strategies they use to think about their social housing projects, examining the materials from a lens of sustainability through environmental, economic and social views.
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Marta Peris + José Toral - Peris + Toral Arquitectes from their office in Barcelona, feed their practice with continuous research in the fields of collective public housing and urban space , under a line of thought that places the individual as the center of action and the architect as an agent social. Marta Peris and José Toral suggest scenarios in which the user takes over from inhabiting and aspires to reconsider the standards of the program to respond to the ways of inhabiting that society needs at all times. |
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Originally published in Architectural Record
Originally published in October 2023
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Explain how social housing benefits from the standpoint of environmental and social sustainability.
- Understand the relationship between being environmental, economic and social as a strategy for sustainability.
- Discuss how Peris +Toral Arquitectes find new ways of inhabiting as a way to rethink collective housing.
- Evaluate how to use earth, stone and timber materials in ways to be sustainable in collective housing projects.
