- Systemic changes
What do we imagine when we think about Europe? The freedom to travel, study, work and live anywhere in the EU.
Nevertheless, intra-EU mobility is extremely low. Only 3.1% of the EU working-age citizens live in a Member State different from the one of their nationality. The functioning of the housing market is amongst the different obstacles that cause this stasis. ON CITIES presents an alternative hotel typology to boost European labour mobility.
How can we design more flexible, sustainable and cost-effective, short-stay buildings for the European mobile knowledge-workers?
How can we use architecture to develop new ways of living and working together in Europe?
EU WORK EU LIVE is the first transnational program of temporary social housing in Europe encouraging and supporting the construction of a pan-European, cross-border community.
Spreads of the concept book “EU WORK EU LIVE”. Our architectural proposal is based on a deep analysis of different aspects related to the European labour mobility, such as internal migrations rates, social inequalities, urban knowledge-economy, the housing market, domestic labour, telework.
In contemporary knowledge economies, our apartments become more and more frequently our workspaces. Starting from this observation our project proposes an alternative typology of short-stay living-working unit for mobile independent workers.
The composition of the unit is simple and diagrammatic: it consists of the juxtaposition of three different programs:
1. A compact core concentrating the main domestic functions ; 2. A flexible working space;
3. A winter garden.
typical plan of EU WORK EU LIVE
EU WORK EU LIVE would not be only a short-stay accommodation, but rather a mixed-use European public equipment.
EU WORK EU LIVE
