Renewing the City from Within

What role can interiors play in adapting to the rapidly changing lifestyles of our cities' inhabitants? Resulting from a study project carried out at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD - Geneve), <> formulates alternatives to the urban development model centred on
building expansion, by proposing scenarios for the renewal, from the inside out, of existing collective housing buildings in Geneva.
By analysing a sample of collective housing buildings from the three main periods of the city's development,
the publication develops scenarios aimed at adapting these typologies to a convivial and mixed lifestyle,
based on principles of solidarity, hospitality and sharing. At a time when the nuclear family is no longer the
only model and when the boundaries between living and working areas have become porous, the architects of Fagart & Fontana wish to contribute to the reflection on the city's capacity to renew itself, by making people aware that there is a project territory to invest to rethink contemporary housing.