Ein dritter Wohnungssektor für Luxemburg - Emanzipation von Markt und Staat in der Wohnversorgung - FHSE

The project at a glance

Start date:

01 Jan 2020
Duration in months:

48
Funding:

University of Luxembourg, PhD funding
Principal Investigator(s):

Florian HERTWECK

About

The Luxembourgish housing crisis is one of the country’s most pressing issues and it keeps getting worse. Since several decades the housing market is not able anymore to keep up with the rapid (economical) growth of the country. The speculation with land and real estate further aggravates the situation. Almost daily, the press reports about dramatically rising costs, insufficient offer and vacancies. Over time, the pressure became so enormous that the access to affordable housing became the number one concern of Luxembourgish voters in 2020. At the same time, the climate crisis is putting pressure on the already heavily sealed territory, which is why the conventional „keep building, but more of it” approach offers neither a sustainable nor a long-term solution to the problem. The PhD project aims to outline architectural answers to the increasingly dramatic situation and to find new ways to create as much housing space as possible, whilst sealing as less land as possible and without neglecting the local mentalities and demands of the population. The goal is to design high-quality forms of living enabling a more economical, ecological and at the same time better occupation of the finite resource of space. Image caption: © Céline Zimmer

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