The Convivial Housing Modus for “Singletown”

Abstract

Seen in the light of the second part of the motto of the conference – “the city is like a big house” (Alberti) – we observe nowadays that European cities are searching, sometimes desperately, for increasing their quality as liveable places. Confronted with big challenges by ongoing transformation processes, the cities and their inhabitants need to think creatively about new modi of living closely together. Within the framework of this general problem, this paper focuses on the research of new typologies for housing in cities that should be architectural answers about making the cities liveable for the inhabitants in a sustainable way.