Building Sustainable Cities

The workshop will be conducted under the mentorship of Foster + Partners based on the firm's experience in various areas of development cooperation, including the reconstruction of Turkish cities devastated by the recent earthquake. It will deal with one of the central topics of the future of construction: the design of sustainable, replicable housing modules that can be combined to meet the significant housing demand of emerging economies or support temporary functions in emergency contexts. By definition, offsite technologies are capable of bringing quality architecture to any context. Through the workshop, students will have the opportunity to design prototypes as the basic module in the development of tomorrow's cities. They will design quality, scalable, and customizable housing that can be built quickly and at a reduced cost, according to a tight analysis of their environmental paradigms to ensure environmentally sustainable interventions.