UAH! Unconventional Affordable Housing

Lecture #9: AgwA

13/05/2025, h. 14:30
Piattaforma Webex

The UAH! Lecture series responds to the growing need to better understand the major transformations behind recent radical social changes and their impact on architecture and contemporary living. The contributions reflect the commitment of contemporary architecture to design approaches that are responsive to today’s challenges, navigating between unconventionality, affordability, sustainability, adaptive reuse, craft and beauty (PRIN2022 Research www.uah.polimi.it).

Relatori

AgwA, Brussels, Belgium

AgwA is an architectural office led by Benoît Burquel, Harold Fallon and Benoît Vandenbulcke and was founded in 2003 in Brussels. The office’s oeuvre mainly consists of conversions of existing (public) buildings and includes the conversion of the ECAM site in Saint-Gilles, the redesign of Charleroi’s Palais des Expositions in collaboration with Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck and the development of a water sports centre in Péronnes. The added value of AgwA’s architecture always lies in the way that it engages with the social and spatial needs that exist within society, and this manifests itself on a contextual, structural, programmatic, economic and ecological level.

Responsabili

Gennaro Postiglione, Francesca Serrazanetti, Constanze Wolfgring